[B-Greek] /sh/ sound?

Brent Hudson brent at riveroflifembchurch.com
Sun Jan 4 21:37:05 EST 2004


On 1/4/2004 at 5:20 PM Ted Shoemaker wrote:
>How best would you express the English /sh/ sound 
>in ancient Greek?


The Hebrew Shin in proper names is often changed to a double sigma in Greek translation (e.g., "Nashon" = NASSWN; Yashay = IASSAI; Menashsheh = MANASSHS, & Mashiach = MESSIAS, to name a few).  I don't know how consistantly this was done throughout the LXX.

Brent Hudson










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