From: Jim West (jwest@highland.net)
Date: Wed Dec 01 1999 - 15:26:25 EST
At 11:45 AM 12/1/99 -0800, you wrote:
>Dear friends,
>
> Prov 30:4 has "...what is his name, and what is his son's name...."(KJV)
>The MT has 'BEN' for "son" in the singular whereas the LXX has "hUIOOI" (I
>believe this is how it is spelled, I don't have the text before me), "sons"
>in the plural. Any ideas as to why the LXX uses the plural in Greek while
>the Hebrew MT uses the singular "son"? Many thanks.
the consonantal text is ambiguous here- it is beth nun waw. now depending
on how one points this word one ends up with either the singular or the
plural. i.e., beno - his son; whilst benaw = his sons...
so- the greek scribe read the plural while the kjv followed the singular.
best,
Jim
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