[B-Greek] Judges 13:5 - thou shalt conceive

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Feb 17 06:48:50 EST 2007


On Feb 17, 2007, at 5:06 AM, schmuel wrote:

> Hi Folks,
>
> Judges 13:5 (KJB)
> For, lo, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son;
> and no razor shall come on his head:
> for the child shall be a Nazarite unto God from the womb:
> and he shall begin to deliver Israel out of the hand of the  
> Philistines.
>
>   I recently ran into a writer that claims that the Greek of Judges  
> 13:5 -
>
> Judges 13:5
> idou su en gastri exeis kai texh uion (2nd sng)
>
>   (I am using his transcription)

BG Transliteration: IDOU SU EN GASTRI hEXEIS KAI TEXHi hUION

> "it should be understood as 'behold, you are pregnant'
> There is no reason to believe that Judges 13:5 should represent a  
> future."
>
> Any Greek ideas can be shared here.
>
> I haven't checked, but this is likely the Vaticanus reading ?
> So I dunno if there are variants of significance (e.g Bzyantine vs.  
> Vaticanus).
>
> And if folks would like to share about the Hebrew, Aramaic or Latin  
> of the
> verse,  especially the Hebrew harah, email me and we could do that in
> an appropriate forum.

Perhaps it will suffice to note here that KJV got it right, that the  
forms hEXEIS and TEXHi are in fact future tense and you should  
suggest to the writer in question that he or she begin some lessons  
in Biblical Greek.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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