[B-Greek] Mwushs

Kevin Riley klriley at alphalink.com.au
Mon Apr 4 18:59:56 EDT 2011


For some reason the Greeks heard a diphthong instead of a simple O or 
W.  At this point in time it is probably not possible to determine 
whether the Greeks heard correctly or not.  As WU is not a common 
combination in Greek, we can probably assume it was used for a reason.

Kevin Riley

On 4/04/2011 2:47 PM, Joseph Roberts wrote:
> Greetings!
>
> I was curious why the Greek word for Moses "Mwushs" is spelled the way
> it is when the Hebrew is Moshe. where does the upsilon come from? I
> know that the "hs" is a masculine noun ending and since there is no
> "Sh" sound in Greek they use just a sigma.
>
> -Joseph Roberts
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