[B-Greek] Gen. 4:7 LXX Version
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at juno.com
Thu Sep 15 14:30:09 EDT 2005
On Thu, 15 Sep 2005 11:01:30 -0700 (PDT) Tracy Pavlik
<joy2barnd at yahoo.com> writes:
> I am a beginning student and this is my first post. Thank you to the
> individual who mentioned the Textkit site and the BBG study group. I
> will be making as much use of it as possible.
>
> My delima is this:
>
> In reading Gen. 4:7 I came across a word for which I can not find a
> definiton in Greek. As a matter of fact, I can't find the word at
> all. The word is DIELHS. ( I hope I followed the FAQ page correctly
> in transliterating. I welcome correction! There is an iota subscript
> under the eta, but I wasn't sure how to transliterate that or
> whether it was necessary.)
>
> The translation from the LXX reads "divided," while the NAS I use
> translates it "do well."
>
> Looking in my Kittel, I couldn't find the word, part of the word
> etc. Is there another source I need to go to, to find this words
> meaning?
>
> Thank you in advance for any response and forgive me in advance for
> my naivete'.
>
> Tracy Pavlik
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You have encountered a rather tough nut for a beginning Greek student.
This is the aorist act subj 2s of DIAIREW. Since it is an irregular
verb, you cannot be expected to be aware of this at this stage.
george
gfsomsel
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