--- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Peter T. Daniels" <grammatim@...>
wrote:

> suzmccarth wrote:
> >
> > --- In qalam@yahoogroups.com, "Mark E. Shoulson" <mark@...>

wrote:

> > > suzmccarth wrote:
> > >
> > > >However, in the Septuagint, it looks as if a Greek 'omega'

was used

> > > >as an equivalent for Hebrew 'vav'. Did 'omega' have a

latent 'v'

> > > >sound?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > No (well, actually maybe; I wouldn't know), but vav does have

an "o"

> > > sound. In addition to its consonant sound, it is also one of

the matres

> > > lectionis, used to represent a vowel sound of "o" or "u"

(depending on

> > > the diacritics).
> >
> > Yes, of course, I get it now. Thanks. The rest of the Greek
> > alphabet used in Psalm 119 (Septuagint Psalm 118) is something I
> > haven't figured out yet but some other time. Unless someone else
> > knows.
>
> What _are_ you talking about?? The Septuagint is written with the

Greek

> alphabet, because it's in Greek. The headings in Ps 119 are Greek
> transliterations of the Hebrew letter names (and are our oldest

source

> for those names).

I saw the Greek letter itself first, a nice little alpha and a
little number sign, don't know where that comes from, but after the
number sign comes the name of the Hebrew letter written in Greek. I
didn't know what you meant by 'transliteration' in this case.
Is 'aleph' the English 'transliteration' of the first letter in the
Hebrew alphabet?

Suzanne

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