[B-Greek] on Orthros
Albert Pietersma
albert.pietersma at sympatico.ca
Sat Feb 26 16:09:44 EST 2005
Dear David,
Trevor has already given you the LXX references. Let me warn you,
however, that if you want to know what ORQROS means you might better go
to a lexicon like LSJ (or BAGD). In the LXX the appearance of a word
is not infrequently determined more by what word appears in the Hebrew
source text than by the requirement of the (Greek) context. Thus you
may or may not learn what a given Greek word means in the living
language.
Al
On Feb 26, 2005, at 2:11 PM, 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.
>
> Thanks Again,
> David Mooney
> dmooney at atmc dot net
>
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Albert Pietersma
Professor of Septuagint and Hellenistic Greek
Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations
University of Toronto
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