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Micah 1:16 כי גלו ממך for they are gone into captivity from thee. Another reference to the captivity, but a different verb, גלו means ἐξελαύνω; expel from a place. The noun גלה be ἔλασις; driving away, banishing. Micah 2:12 I will surely assemble (אאסף) O Jacob, all of thee. I will gather (אקבץ) the...

Hosea 6:11 concludes with "when I returned the captivity of my people". Ref. Isaiah 45:13/61:1 that directly mention Cyrus outside the so called chronological period of Hezekiah. The opening of Isaiah and Micah concludes they were prophesying between 783 to 687 BCE but why emphasize the Ac...

Jer 26:18 — Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah So accordingly Micah prophesied in the days of Hezekiah, same time as Isaiah, however Isaiah is not mentioned in Jeremiah and Micah is not mentioned in Isaiah or parts of Kings & Chronicles that deal with Hezekiah ...

Hosea 1:1 The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel. Micah 1:1 The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and H...

Isa 43:3 — I gave Egypt for thy ransom, Ethiopia and Seba for thee. נתתי כפרך מצרים כוש וסבא תחתיך LXX ἐποίησά σου ἄλλαγμα Αἴγυπτον καὶ Αἰθιοπίαν καὶ Σοήνην ὑπὲρ σοῦ Both versions are very different, the initial verb in the G is "He made" followed by σου (-ך) ἄλλαγμα; that which is given ...

Isa 44:4 They they shall spring up as among the grass, as willows by the water courses (הערבים על יבלי-מים) This translation depends on the Septuagint reading of ערבים as Ιτέα 'willows. The word ערבים comes from ὄροφος ὄροφος A.reed used for thatching houses, described as λαχνήεις, Il.24.451 : distd...

Isa 44:1 (KJV) — Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant (עבדי); and Israel, whom I have chosen (בחרתי) Septuagint often reads עבד as παις 'child, III. in relation to Condition, slave, servant, man or maid (of all ages), Παϝις, cf. παῦρος, Lat. puer. παις exchanges with בן/בת and בר. The word עבד is pronou...

Ἆφ is the vocative form of Ἆπις, Apis, a bull worshipped in Egypt. I am unsure about Σω but ΑΦ and ΣΩ evoke alpha and omega. ΣΩ cf. ת "Taw" for ת exchanges with Σ. אף means πνοη, breath or the breath of Ἥφαιστος i.e flame. Perhaps ΑΦ and ΣΩ represent body and soul. The baboon in Greek is κ...

Isa 36:8 וְעַתָּה֙ הִתְעָ֣רֶב נָ֔א אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֖י הַמֶּ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר νῦν μείχθητε τῷ κυρίῳ μου τῷ βασιλεῗ Ἀσσυρίων Now therefore pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria 2Ki 18:23 וְעַתָּה֙ הִתְעָ֣רֶב נָ֔א אֶת־אֲדֹנִ֖י אֶת־מֶ֣לֶךְ אַשּׁ֑וּר καὶ νῦν μιχθητε δὴ τῷ κυρίῳ μου βασιλεῗ Ἀσσυρ...

Isa 36:6 / 2 Kings 18.22 .thou trustest in the staff (משענת) of this broken reed, on Egypt; whereon if a man lean (יסמך) The verbal form of משען is written נשען, in the נפעל (Niphal), the passive reflective, explained through Greek. σκάπτον משען : staff or stick, used by the lame or aged This stems ...