[b-greek] RE: macma in 2 Ki. 8:15

From: Jeff Smelser (jeffsmelser@ntgreek.net)
Date: Fri Feb 22 2002 - 12:36:38 EST


Thanks, Trevor!

Jeff Smelser
jeffsmelser@ntgreek.net
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> >===== Original Message From Jeff Smelser <jeffsmelser@ntgreek.net> =====
> >The death of Benhadad...
> >
> >2 Ki 8:15 - ELABEN TO MACMA KAI EBAYEN EN TWi hUDATI KAI PERIEBALEN EPI
TO
> >PROSWPON AUTOU KAI APEQANEN
> >
> >"he took the MACMA and dipped (it) in water and wrapped (it) around his
> >face, and he died"
> >
> >I don't find MACMA in BDAG or in LSJ at Perseus. Is this just an
isolated,
> >rough transliteration from the Hebrew?
>
> Here's the entry from A Greek-English Lexicon of the Septuagint (Lust,
> Eynikel, Hauspie), with bracketed expansions on my part:
>
> corr[upt]? MACBAR or MAKBAR (var.) = MKBR [Heb.] bed-cover; cf. Tov
> [Loan-words, Homophony and Transliterations in the Septuagint, in Bib 60]
> 1979, 234
>
> Trevor Peterson
> CUA/Semitics
>
>
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