A Lexical Study of the Septuagint Version of the Pentateuch

ελαιών
Ex. 23.11, De. 6.11, very commonly in papyri, e.g. PCair.
Zen. 157.2 (256 B.C.) τών στροβίλων φύτευσον ... περί τόν
αμπελώνα καί τούς ελαιώνας. Deissmann, BS 208ff.
πυλών ( 1
gateway')
Ge. 4 3.19 έλάλησαν αύτώ έν τώ πυλών ι τού οίκου, often in
papyri and inscriptions from iii B.C. onwards: e.g. PCair.Zen
193.9 (255 B.C.) συνετάγη δέ τώι άρχιτέκτονι ... τόν πυλώνα ...
μεταθεΐναι, PEnt. 74.3 (iii B.C.). Cf. Moeris 88 αύλία θύρα
Άττικώς, πυλών Έλληνικώς.
Various
, , 35
αμνας ('ewe-lamb')
Often in the Pentateuch, as e.g. IÏU. 6.14 προσάξει ...
άμνάδα ένιαυσίαν άμωμον μίαν, Ge. 21.28, Le. 5.6. It is attes­
ted elsewhere only in PCair.zen. 576.3 (iii B.C.) ... τήν
χίμαιραν καί τήν άμνάδα, 406.6 (iii B.C.), and Theoc. 8.35,
J. AJ 7.7.3.
ελεημοσύνη ('mercy', 'pity')
De. 6.25 καί ελεημοσύνη έ'σται ήμΐν, έάν φυλασσώμεθα ποιεΐν
πάσας τάς έντολάς ταύτας ( ·» ηρτ* ) / Ge. 47. 29 ( ~ -jon ) ·
LSJ and Bauer record, the word is found in Call. 4.152 (iii
B.C.); to this can be added PCair.zen. 495.10 (iii B.C., a
letter to Zenon) πρός σέ οδν καταφυγγάνομεν, ίνα ελεημοσύνης
τύχωμεν.
It also occurs in the Pentateuch in De. 24.13, where the
sense is not quite clear. It is perhaps 'kind deed', from which
comes the later sense, as in NT, of 'alms', 'almsgiving' (cf.
Bauer).
μοσχάριον ('calf')
Nine times in the Pentateuch, e.g. Ge. 18.7 ελαβεν
35. On the formation see esp. BP 411ff. The use of this suffix
for names of animals is old.
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