[B-Greek] Loanwords from Hebrew

Wayne Leman wayne_leman at sil.org
Sun May 6 01:56:01 EDT 2007


Liz, I have my doubts that you'll find many Semitic loanwords in Greek, 
other than proper names in the LXX and Greek N.T. But the phonological 
reshaping of proper nouns would be an interesting study in itself. And you 
can also find quite a few Semitic loan translations and syntactic Semitisms 
in the LXX and Greek N.T.

Here is a webpage with some info (see his section on "Transliterations" for 
Semitic transliterations into Greek):
http://www.bible-researcher.com/hebraisms.html

I have been collecting literalisms in English translations of the N.T. Some 
of them are Semitisms. Check here for a start:
http://www.geocities.com/bible_translation/studies.htm

There are others on this discussion list who have more expertise in this 
area and can suggest ideas for you also.

Best wishes,
Wayne
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Wayne Leman
Better Bibles Blog:
http://englishbibles.blogspot.com


> Hello everyone, I'm new to this list.
>
> I'm working on a paper about how loanwords from Semitic languages were
> phonologically adapted in Greek. Can anyone tell me where I might find a
> list of Greek words of Hebrew or Aramaic origin?




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