Bible Word Study - Septuagint Help

Naveen Daniel said:

I can see the English verses in LES. But is it possible to see the verses in, say, ESV?

Not from the Translation ring as the ESV doesn't have Greek words in the Old Testament

But if you scroll down to the Textual Searches section and choose the LXX, you can add the ESV as an additional version into the resulting search panel

Hi Naveen

Naveen Daniel said:

Sorry for the late reply. As far as I can recall, I didn't receive any email notification that some one replied to my post.

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Naveen Daniel said:

Your response was super helpful. It did what I wanted, spot on.

That is good to hear

Naveen Daniel said:

If I may ask a follow up question. How do I limit the output of the Septuagint to the books of the Old Testament?

Do you mean just the books in the Protestant canon?

If so, I can't think of any easy way of doing that. You can't just search in Get-Mal as some of the other books are interspersed among them

Naveen Daniel said:

How do I limit the output of the Septuagint to the books of the Old Testament?

Let me use this as a teachable moment, setting aside Western Christianity where it might devolve into a theological argument.

• Think of Christianity historically as having three major threads - Western Christianity which used Latin, Bzyantine Christianity (Eastern Orthodox) which used Greek, and Syriac Christianity (Oriental Orthodox) which used Syriac.
• In modern times, Western Christianity split into two major threads - Catholic and Protestant; this thread I'm setting aside.
• Byzantine and Syriac Christianity have always used the LXX as their Old Testament and have always considered it as canonical. The portion that I set aside, Western Christianity, has a significant portion that also uses the LXX as their Old Testament and have always considered in canonical.
• Therefore, it is reasonable that when looking at LXX data, the software assume that the user considers the LXX as the canonical standard OR if they do not, they know how to apply their definition of the canon to the text.
• Note that among all the groups mentioned above as using the LXX as their canonical standard, there has never been agreement or precise definition of what is actually in the LXX canon ... general agreement with regional variations is the norm.

Dave Hooton said:

However, you can let Logos handle that if you modify the query by adding  WITHIN {Milestone <Bible Gen-Mal>} (in a Search of All Passages in a Septuagint resource) e.g. <Lemma = lbs/el/θεός> WITHIN {Milestone <Bible Gen-Mal>}

Thanks Dave - I didn't think of that!

I'd almost posted earlier to note that Dave and Graham were making assumptions as to the sequence and canon of your highest priority Bible. Unfortunately, I don't see your query for verification of what the problem is.

Naveen Daniel said:

I think I have it the way you suggested. But I still find that no filter was applied.

Result shows alignment to ESV e.g.  LXX Dan 3:92 = ESV Dan 3:25

Naveen Daniel said:

There were 137 results in 133 verses before I added "WITHIN {Milestone <Bible Gen-Mal>}" The number of results didn't change after I included this extra filter within quotes. So I must be doing something wrong.

Strange - with the same filter, my search shows up just 124 results

Naveen Daniel said:

When I scrolled through the results, I did notice that some verses didn't have the ESV version (this was even before the filer given in quotes above). Does that mean that these verses don't belong to Gen-Mal?

Yes, that is what it means. 

Naveen Daniel said:

If so, how do I find the Protestant Canon equivalent version of some of the verses in the Septuagint such as 1 Kgdms, 2 Kgdms etc that also have a ESV version attached to it? Is there a way to map it automatically before outputting the results.

If you hover your cursor over the reference, it will show the rendering in your preferred Bible. Clicking it will open that Bible to that verse

Does this help at all?