[sword-devel] Strong's numbers in Septuagint/LXX module?
Troy A. Griffitts
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Fri Dec 2 16:45:46 MST 2005
Martin Gruner is working on a LXX-MT Parallel from CATSS. Does this
have any bearing?
Ted Walther wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 03:48:08PM -0500, DM Smith wrote:
>
>> I think he wants the Greek Strongs number and the Hebrew Strongs number
>> for each word in the Old Testament where the Greek Strongs number would
>> come from the LXX. This really is a mapping between the Hebrew text and
>> the LXX. I think that this makes more sense for it to be placed in the
>> LXX itself.
>
>
> Yes, you have it exactly! But I'd like it keyed to the KJV. I know
> there would be a lot of NIH words, but not so many that it wouldn't
> still be a useful tool.
>
> The idea is to look up a word in the KJV, see how it was translated into
> English from Hebrew Masoretic and Greek LXX. Ideally I'd like to see
> the same thing done for the Shem Tov mss of the book of Matthew too.
>
>> These are all Greek strongs numbers. But the underlying text is Hebrew.
>> Wouldn't the mapping make better sense here?
>
>
> That would be a good start; I could work with that. In fact that might
> be more useful than trying to map the LXX directly onto the KJV. I
> could do an inner join type thingum to do what I want to do if that
> Hebrew->Greek mapping data was available.
>
> Ted
>
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