[B-Greek] a question in LXX

Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com Revdpickrel at wmconnect.com
Mon Aug 30 00:43:53 EDT 2004


I am sorry Barry, I wasn't clear.  I know it means twentieth, but the Hebrew 
says the seventh and tenth not seventh and twentieth, see my problem.  I 
hoping I was translating it incorrectly and someone would point out my 
misunderstanding.

Doug Pickrel


> > I am having trouble with LXX Gen 7:11 "TOU DEUTEROU MHNOS EBDOMH KAI 
> EIKADI
> > TOU MHNOS" translated as "of the second month seventh and twentieth of the
> > month.  My problem is with EIKADI.  Twentieth, I think should be EIKOSTOS 
> (I
> > think).  The Hebrew reads seventh and tenth of the month.  EIKADI is cross
> > reference with EIKAS.
> 
> If you look it up in LSJ, EIKAS means "the twentieth day of the month."  
> EIKADI 
> is simply the dative singular of the word.
> 
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> 


Doug Pickrel
Tejas Valley
San Antonio, TX



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