[B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) => APOSTROFH(turning)

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Jan 6 11:41:12 EST 2010


Sometimes things happen serendipitously to further discovery, but on other occassions one can be led into a wrong direction.  I haven't thoroughly investigated this, but let me throw it out for consideration anyway.  

There are three instances of תְּשׁוּקָה in the Masoretic text of the OT, and one instance of תְּשׁוּרָה . The latter is found in 1 Sam 9.7 and being a hapax is not totally clear but seems to indicate a present (nor is the former totally clear for that matter). I only noticed this since the latter immediately followed the form in Gen 3.6 in the lexicon.  In the history of transmission it is possible that there has been some corruption in the text since at various periods some letters resembled others rather closely.  There are thus two questions:  Is this due to a corruption?  If so, which passage exhibits the corruption?  Of course, the usual question still remains regarding the precise meaning of whichever form is determined to be correct.
 george
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----- Original Message ----
From: Iver Larsen <iver_larsen at sil.org>
To: Ken Penner <kpenner at stfx.ca>; b-greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wed, January 6, 2010 8:41:35 AM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) => APOSTROFH(turning)

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken Penner" <kpenner at stfx.ca>
To: "b-greek" <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: 6. januar 2010 18:13
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Gen 3:16b LXX: t'shuqah (desire) => APOSTROFH(turning)
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Iver, if you're interested in the meaning of T$WQTH, it occurs in the Dead Sea 
Scrolls. Check at 1QS XI, 22; 1QM XV, 10; XVII, 4; 4Q256 XXII, 1; 4Q256 1 10; 
4Q446 3 1; 6Q18 2 4.
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Sorry, I don't have access to these texts, and my Hebrew is not that good.

I do have what is called Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew, and they give 
the following information for the Hebrew word in question:
"to concentrate one's full attention on someone else ► either with the purpose 
of pleasing that person or of gaining control over him/her; ● agent: human - to 
turn one's attention to; to be enraptured by; to concentrate one's energy on GEN 
3:16; 4:7; SNG 7:11 [3])"

Since this is Hebrew it is not relevant for this list except to explore why the 
LXX translator(s) used APOSTROFH.

Iver

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