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Dear Michael:

In LSJ I find that _peteuron_ can also have meaning of "springboard." This
could be an interpretive paraphrase  in a very vivid mannerof  the "depths"
to which one will plunge if he consorts with the wrong type of woman. Her
house is the "springboard" to Hades. 


At 01:58 PM 10/6/96 -0600, you wrote:
>Can anyone explain petauron (var. peteuron) in LXX Prov 9:18:
>
>"For he does not know that mortals (ge:geneis) perish with her, and he
>meets with the pole (?)" of Hades (kai epi peteuron hadou synanta(i) ?
>
>Heb has "... b`imqey $'ol qru'eyha "and her guests are in the depths of
>Sheol"  qr'yh is parsed as qr', so peteuron must come from b`mqy. But
>how? Looks like an inner-Gk error.
>
>Mike
>
>
>
>Michael V. Fox
>Professor, Dept. of Hebrew
>University of Wisconsin
>1220 Linden Drive, rm. 1346
>Madison, WI 53706
>email: mfox@lss.wisc.edu = mvfox@facstaff.wisc.edu
>
>

Kevin W. Woodruff
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