An additional note below... On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 20:56:33 -0400 (EDT), Will Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Yodan, > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2012 15:26:49 -0700, "Yodan" <[email protected]> wrote: >> Shalom to all, >> >> Can someone who is able to read the Greek LXX help me out with the >> names HIRAM, HIROM, and HURAM (as these names are transliterated >> from Hebrew). >> >> How do they appear in the LXX - like in Hebrew, or are all of them >> Hiram as I have been told? >> >> HIRAM - in II Samuel 5:17. > > I think you mean 5:11, but it is Χιραμ/Chiram. > >> HIROM - in I Kings 5:24. > > Likewise Χιραμ/Chiram. > >> HURAM - in I Chronicles 8:5. > > I see Ωιμ/Oïm. Quite different. It does suggest that the first vowel > was a back vowel (like [o] or [u]) rather the front vowel [i] of the > other forms. The lack of the initial Χ/chi of the other forms may be > an indication that the older distinction between two pronunciations of > heth had now been merged into one - the lighter of the two.
I sent off the reply too soon. In the /apparatus criticus/, ουραμ/Ouram is also cited with the notation "compl." (which I assume is an abbreviation for "complures"), and which is a close match to the Hebrew form (again, assuming the harsher pronunciation of heth had fallen together with the lighter). -- William Parsons μη φαινεσθαι, αλλ' ειναι. _______________________________________________ b-hebrew mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/b-hebrew
