[B-Greek] Luke 2:36 hANNA

Jason Hare jason at hareplay.com
Sun Nov 30 21:19:23 EST 2003


I wonder if there was a reason why the /chet/ (the letter of the Hebrew
alphabet that starts the name Hannah) was not carried over as a C in Greek.
However, I guess it was not all that uncommon to ignore that letter
altogether... for example in the word MESSIAS in Greek. It comes from Hebrew
/mashiach/, with the /chet/ as the final letter.

Hannah/Anna comes from Hebrew /chen/ which means "mercy." God is referred to
often in Jewish liturgy as /rachum v'chanun/, "gracious and merciful." The
second of those words is built off of the same word as /channah/, the female
Jewish name.

Best regards,
Jason


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ruth Ellison" <ruthellison at optusnet.com.au>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Luke 2:36 hANNA


> I'm intrigued that this lady has a rough breathing, yet by English
tradition
> her name is Anna.  At what point did breathings begin to be marked in
> manuscripts?  Is the English tradition carried over from the Vulgate?
What
> is the likeliest cause of the discrepancy?
>
> <sudden heavenly ray of light penetrates skull, flips back to 1 Sam. 1...>
> (I don't have access to a printed LXX, but the text in Gramcord doesn't
have
> breathings marked on names at all.)
>
> It's discoveries like this that make all the study worthwhile.
>
>
> Ruth Ellison
> ruthellison at optusnet.com.au
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