Psalms 3:3 in Septuagint

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jun 24 16:29:54 EDT 2001


At 12:00 PM -0700 6/24/01, Jack Garnier wrote:
>SU DE RURIE ANTILHMPTWR MOU EI DOXA MOU KAI UPSWN THN KEFALHN MOU

In my text it's: SU DE KURIE ANTILHMPTWR MOU EI DOXA MOU KAI hUYWN THN
KEFALHN MOU.

>I looked up ANTILHMPTWR in the LSJ at Perseus, and nothing.  I did a
>backward search of "sheild" and found 102 entries, but this word was not
>among them.  Can anyone give me an analysis of this word?

LEH LXX lexicon offers for ANTILHMPTWR:

2 Sm 22:3; Ps 3:4; 17(18):3; 41(42):10; 45(46):8
	helper, protector ; neol.

It's worth noting that ANTILHMPTWR is a typical agent-noun with the nominal
suffix -TWR attached to the simple root form of ANTILAMBANW, for which LSJ
at Perseus offers (II.2):

2. help, take part with, assist, ouk antilêpsesth'; E.Tr.464 ; of persons,
a. Hellêrôn to take their part, D.S.11.13; a. tôn asthenountôn Act.Ap.20.35
, etc.: abs., Th.7.70:-- also in Pass., anteilêmmenê having received help,
BGU1105.21 (Aug.), al.

This is a useful procedure for making intelligent guesses when you can't
find an entry in a lexicon: work out what the verbal root involved is and
look up that verb in the lexicon.
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