A Lexical Study of the Septuagint Version of the Pentateuch

offered to return the money they found in their sacks after the
first visit:
"Ιλεως ύμΐν, μη φοβεΐσθε· ό θεός υμών ... εδωκεν ύμΐν
θησαυρούς έν τοις μαρσ ι ΤΧΤΤΟ ι ς υμών, τό δέ άργύριον υμών
ευδοκιμούν απέχω.
'I have received your money, which was quite genuine', that is
to say, I have received payment for the grain purchased on the
first visit; there is no need to return the money found in the
sacks.
Nu. 32.19 ούκέτι κληρονομήσωμεν έν αύτοΐς από τού πέραν
τού Ιορδανού και έπέκεινα, δτι άπέχομεν τούς κλήρους ημών
έν τω πέραν τού I. έν άνατολαΐς.
In both cases the LXX rendering neatly paraphrases the
idiomatic Hebrew of the original: ι^κ Nn DOÛDD in the former,
u't»K ιant»nj ΠΝ3 in the latter.
γόμος
Originally γόμος was used specifically of a ship's load,
'cargo' (Hdt. 1.194, D. 32.4), only in later Greek of any load.
The development runs parallel to that in γεμίζω, at first used
of loading ships, only later of animals, etc.
The later use appears in the one example of the word in
the Pentateuch:
Ex. 23.5 έάν δέ ΐδης τό ύποζύγιον τού εχθρού σου πεπτωκός
ύπό τόν γόμον αυτού ... (MT INKTO )
A contemporary example of this use, which was previously
not known before i A.D. apart from the LXX (examples in MM,
LSJ), is now available:
PCol.Zen. 2.8 (259 B.C., an account of earnings of a camel
caravan) από τών Σκηνών είς Αιγυπτον γόμων δ φοινίκων
καμήλων δ μισθός (δραχμα'ι) ρδ.
'From the Tents to Egypt, 4 loads of dates, 4 camels, pay,
104 dr.' (ed.).
όλκή
In Classical Greek the main meanings were 'drawing',