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Headword:
*xamw/s
Adler number: chi,78
Translated headword: Chamos, Chemosh
Vetting Status: high
Translation: He was a god of [the] Tyrians or the Ammonites, just as Astarte [was] a goddess of [the] Sidonians, [sc. both of] whom Solomon served.
Greek Original:*xamw/s: qeo\s h)=n *turi/wn h)\ *)ammanitw=n, w(/sper h( *)asta/rth qeo\s *sidwni/wn, oi(=s e)la/treuse *solomw=n.
Notes:
For this material arranged in other ways see already
alpha 4222 and
sigma 772.
English versions adopt Chemosh, the Hebrew form of the name כמוש
kemōš. The Old Testament attributes the god to the Moabites: see e.g.
Numbers 21:29,
Jeremiah 31:13,
1 Kingdoms [
3 Kings] 11:1-8. The lexicographer is not following the
Septuagint, however, but George the Monk (
Chronicon 204.16-18, 206.5-10, 429.7-8).
Georgius Monachus, ed. C. de Boor.
C. de Boor, "Die Chronik des Georgius Monachus als Quelle des Suidas," Hermes 21 (1886) 1-26, at p. 23
Cambridge Ancient History 3.2, p. 384
Keywords: biography; Christianity; definition; ethics; geography; historiography; history; mythology; religion
Translated by: Oliver Phillips â on 12 May 2001@21:59:09.
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