[B-Greek] Choice of transliterations for "David"?

Eric Weiss eweiss at gte.net
Sat Aug 23 21:12:13 EDT 2003


The Textus Receptus (or, rather, H KAINH DIAQHKH as published by The
Trinitarian Bible Society, which is "The Greek Text Underlying The
English Authorized Version of 1611") uses DABID in Matthew 1:1, Acts
2:25, Romans 1:3, and I assume throughout the New Testament.
 
This raises a question for me: Since modern Greek pronounces AU and EU
as av/af and ev/ef, is it possible that this was also done in Koine
times? E.g., I find the Greek forms of "Eve" (hEUA) and "Levi" (LEUI)
more difficult to pronounce with the Erasmian pronunciation than if the
EU has an "ev" sound. Likewise, POREUOMAI is easier as
"por-ev-o-mai" than "por-yoo-o-mai.
 
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Eric S. Weiss
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