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Nehemiah 3 refers to a Jerusalem landmark, the House of the Warriors. The Greek Septuagint leaves the Hebrew words untranslated and unintelligible, a word that Greek readers would have no idea what it's referring to.
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2500 BCE
1000+ CE
Nehemiah 3:16
Hebrew Bible
15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David. 16 Nehemiah son of Azbuk, head of a half district of Beth Zur, worked after him as far as the tombs of David and the artificial pool and the House of the Warriors. 17 After him the Levites worked—Rehum son of Bani and after him Hashabiah, head of half the district of Keilah, for his district.
LXX Nehemiah 3:16
Septuagint
16 Behind him Nehemiah, son of Azbuk, ruler around the area of Bethzur, took possession as far as the garden of the tomb of David and as far as the produced reservoir and as far as Bethangabarim. 17 Behind him the Levites took possession. Basouth, son of Bani, and at his hand, Hashabiah, ruler of half the area around Keilah, took possession of his surrounding area. 18 After him, their brothers took possession under Binnui, son of Henadad, ruler over half of the area around Keilah.
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Notes and References
“... One of the associations with Theodotion has been the use of transcriptions rather than translations of some terms (Torrey, ‘Apparatus’, pages 64–71; compare Janz, ‘Second Book’, page 164 note 36). Leaving aside the more than 500 proper nouns, there are 38 distinct transcriptions of common nouns as proper nouns (for example, Βηθαγγαβαρίμ rather than ‘the house of the warriors’, 13.16), technical terms (for example, Μαναά, 23.5, 9; πάσχα, 6.19, 20, 21) and negative interpretations (for example, Ἀβδησελμά rather than ‘servants of Solomon’, 2.55, 58; see Wooden, ‘Interlinearity’, pages 125–29; Bible d’Alexandrie 11.2, pages 100–106). The transcriptions are not consistent throughout the book and so we find both ναθιναῖοι (2.43; 21.3) and ναθινίμ (2.58, 70, and so on) for נתינים, and ἀβιρά (11.1) and τῆς βιρά for הבירה. The same is true for proper nouns, such as Ἀδδίν (2.15) and Ἀδίν (8.6) and Ἠδῖν (17.20) for עדין. ...”
Wooden, R. Glenn
"2 Esdras" in Aitken, James K. (ed.) 2 Esdras, in The T&T Clark Companion to the Septuagint
(p. 199) Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2015
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