[B-Greek] When was the word "John" first used?
Iver Larsen
iver_larsen at sil.org
Tue Dec 4 00:19:29 EST 2007
----- Original Message -----
From: "Carl Conrad" <cwconrad2 at mac.com>
To: "Raymond Custer" <leoncuster at yahoo.com>
Cc: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: 3. december 2007 22:10
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] When was the word "John" first used?
>
> On Dec 3, 2007, at 1:13 PM, Raymond Custer wrote:
>
>> The "Koran" states that the word "John" was first used in history
>> for John The Baptist. I ran it on my software of the Bible which
>> included the Greek Septuagint and so far have not found them wrong.
>> Would someone who has the ability to search outside Scripture see if
>> you can find an example of the greek or Hebrew word for "John" used
>> prior to the Birth of John The Baptist. I could not search the
>> Hebrew Old testament. Thanks for your help.
>
> I just did a search for IWANNHS in the LXX and got 15 hits -- to be
> sure, all of them are late (1 Esdras, 1-2 Maccabees). There is no
> Hebrew text for these.
>
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
Names are changed when they cross language boundaries and time. The English John is the same name as
NT IWANNHS and Hebrew "Yohanan". This name occurs 24 times in the Hebrew OT and the corresponding
Greek IWANAN 30 times, of which 8 are in Ezra/Nehemiah/2 Esdras. IWANNHS and IWANAN are variants of
the same name. Even in Hebrew, "Yohanan" is at times given in the fuller form "Yehohanan", which the
LXX also transcribes as IWANAN or IWANOU (genitive) in 2 Ch 28:12.
Iver Larsen
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