[B-Greek] LXX grammar question of Isaiah 44:22, 57:21

John Butzu johnbutzu at hotmail.com
Sat Apr 5 20:27:52 EDT 2008


Greetings!  A while back I happened to stumble across your website and
now I seem to have a question that perhaps someone with more years of
Koine Greek could help me with.  Here is the question:  In Isaiah 44:22
& 57:21 the same greek word is used (in the LXX) to translate the
Hebrew word "Shalom" meaning peace or wholeness.  The word used is
chairo (CHAIRW) which is a verb.  I checked the hebrew and sure enough the word shalom
here is a noun.  Why didn't this word get translated as CHARA (Joy)
rather than CHAIRW (rejoice, be glad) for this does not even make sense
when you read this passage!  Is this just a mistake on the part of some tired scribe or am I missing something here in the grammar?  

Comments, questions, answers welcome!

 

By John Mark

New Testament and Bible Student/Pastor/Scholar

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