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Headword:
Goliathês
Adler number: gamma,367
Translated headword: Goliathes, Goliath
Vetting Status: high
Translation: This was a truly enormous Palestinian man, four cubits and a span [tall],[1] wearing armor proportional to the size of his body.[2]
In the Hebrew langage the same man [is called] Goliath.
Greek Original:Goliathês: houtos Palaistinos ên anêr pammegethestatos, pêchôn d# kai spithamês, hopla tês phuseôs tou sômatos analogounta perikeimenos. ho autos Goliath Hebraïdi dialektôi.
Notes:
[1] Taller at
1 Samuel 17:4
LXX: "And there went out a champion out of the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath (Hebrew גלית), of Gath, whose height was six cubits (אמות) and a span (זרת)." A "cubit" was the distance between the point of the elbow and that of the middle finger; see
pi 1543. A "span" was the distance between the tips of the thumb and the little finger at full extension; see
sigma 942.
[2]
Josephus,
Antiquities of the Jews 6.171 (text at web address 1).
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; clothing; dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; military affairs; religion
Translated by: Ross Scaife ✝ on 13 May 2002@12:39:25.
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