MrMacSon wrote: ↑Sun Oct 08, 2023 6:12 pm
Original Word: Ναζαρέτ
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Transliteration: Nazaret or Nazara or Nazareth
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
of uncertain derivation
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
... As respects the Hebrew form of the name, it is disputed whether it was
https://biblehub.com/greek/3478.htm
- נֵצֶר, 'a sprout', 'shoot' (so, besides others, Hengstenberg, Christol. des A. T. ii., 124f. (English translation, ii., 106f); but cf. Gieseler in the Studien und Kritiken for 1831, p. 588f), or
- נֹצְרָה, 'protectress', 'guard' (cf. 2 Kings 17:9; so Keim, as above), or
- נִצֶרֶת, 'sentinel' (so Delitzsch in the Zeitschr. f. Luth. Theol. for 1876, p. 401), or
- נְצֹרֶת, 'watch-tower' (so Ewald in the Götting. gelehrt. Anzeigen for 1867, p. 1602f).
Another Hebrew word that means 'shoot,' sprout,' and branch is צמח, tsemach/ tsémakh.
For Zechariah 3.8 & 6.12 and Jeremiah 23.5 in the Greek Septuagint/LXX, נֵצֶר was either translated or, perhaps, replaced with ἀνατολὴν, anatolē.
George Walser, in Jeremiah: A Commentary based on Ieremias in Codex Vaticanus, 2012, noted:
That's in Luke 1:67-79, the so-called Benedictus, iirc.RandyHelzerman wrote: ↑Mon Oct 16, 2023 8:04 pm P.S. Lets not forget that Luke has the angel tell's Zacheriah that his son, John the Baptist, "He is never to take wine or other fermented drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit even before he is born"
MrMacSon wrote: ↑Mon Oct 09, 2023 11:59 am
Simon Gathercole 'The Heavenly ἀνατολή (Luke 1:78–9)' JTS vol. 56, no. 2. 2005, 471–488
AbstractA consideration of the ἀνατολή figure in Luke 1:78–9 leads to the suggestion that this is not merely a Davidic messiah, but also a heavenly, pre-existent figure. After a review of the main lines of debate in the past century, the discussion is centred on four points. First, the visitation (ἐπισκέψεται) gives a strong impression of a divine figure. Secondly, from the evidence of the LXX and elsewhere in Luke, the advent of the figure ‘from on high’ (ἐξ ὕψους) points clearly to a heavenly origin for the ἀνατολή. Thirdly, though less conclusively, the reference to Isaiah 9 LXX strengthens the impression of an angelic ruler figure. Finally, the ἀνατολή itself is defined as both light-bringer and heavenly messiah, especially in contrast to the Ἀνατολή character in Zech. 6:12, who comes not ‘from on high’ but ‘from beneath’.
https://academic.oup.com/jts/article-ab ... 71/1708881