[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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