[B-Greek] on Orthros
Trevor Peterson
abuian at access4less.net
Sat Feb 26 15:54:56 EST 2005
David Mooney wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I plan to take NT greek this fall and I have a question. In the LXX, how
> many times does ORTHROS refer to early in the morning? The reason I am
> asking is this: In the NT orthros is used only 3 times and it always refers
> to early in the morning. But how early? Before sunrise, as in Luke 24:1? Is
> there any site I can go to where ORTHROS is shown in the LXX so I can have a
> broader knowledge of the way it was used? I was told by my brother he heard
> that ORTHROS was used over 60 times in the LXX and it always referred to
> very early in the morning. I wanted to examine the passages in context and I
> have ordered Brenton's LXX so I needed to know where to look for the
> occurrences of ORTHROS in the LXX. This will help a lot and I thak you all
> for your patience. I have already learned the greek alphabet and I haven't
> even taken my first course in Greek. I hope to receive a book in the mail
> soon that will help me get a headstart on NT Greek.
For this sort of thing, it would be good to acquire at some point either
a decent concordance of the LXX (Hatch & Redpath comes to mind) or some
good Bible software, which may not be considered quite as reliable, but
also tends to be a lot more versatile (for instance, allowing you to
look up specific grammatical forms and combinations of words, both of
which can be quite a bit more difficult to do with a paper concordance).
I've pasted below the result list that my rather old version of
BibleWorks spit out. I haven't checked through the references to see if
they're all appropriate, but it should be every instance of your word,
regardless of form, in the LXX. It's considerably less than 60 hits, but
perhaps your brother was a bit off on the count. Happy hunting!
Gen. 19:15
Gen. 32:27
Exod. 19:16
Jos. 6:15
Jda. 19:25
Jdg. 16:2
Jdg. 19:26
1 Sam. 9:26
1 Es. 9:41
Neh. 4:15
Est. 5:14
Jdt. 14:2
Jdt. 14:11
Tbs. 8:18
Ps. 56:9
Ps. 62:7
Ps. 107:3
Ps. 118:148
Ps. 138:9
Prov. 7:18
Prov. 23:35
Cant. 6:10
Sir. 24:32
Hos. 6:3
Hos. 10:15
Amos 4:13
Joel 2:2
Jer. 7:25
Jer. 25:4
Jer. 33:5
Jer. 39:33
Jer. 42:14
Jer. 51:4
Sus. 1:12
Sus. 1:13
Trevor Peterson
CUA/Semitics
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