… The translator of Esther misrepresented נֳָדָּה as נִּדֵּד ה or נֹדֵד ה, that is, “the Lord removed sleep” (from the king). He thus took the he as an abbreviated tetragrammaton (compare p. 160), while vocalizing נדד as a piʿel form (נדד occurs in this conjugation only in rabbinic and not in biblical Hebrew). However, it is very relevant to note that the name of God does not occur in the biblical book of Esther, which makes the existence of the variant נדד ה very unlikely. The translator may have been influenced by several factors in representing נֳָדָּה by ὁ δὲ κύριος ἀπέστησεν. For one thing, κύριος does occur in the Greek Esther, once in a Greek plus to the Masoretic Text (Esther 4:8), and also 24 times in the narrative Expansions to the canonical book of Esther, most of which probably were an integral part of the Greek translation …