Message: "Isn't it" - Behind the Name

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Isn't it

by Ivayla

7/27/2005, 11:34 PM

in reply to a message by Andy ;—)

Nineveh?

~ Ivayla
(with a useless comment as usual)

Anything good in life is either illegal, immoral, or fattening.

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- Andy ;—) (guest)

7/27/2005, 11:56 PM

You are right, in English bibles you will find Nineveh. In other translations there is Ninive (I was able to check German, French and Romanian). In the Hebrew bible the name of the city is ninve, in the Greek Septuagint it's Nineue (with an eta in the end) and Nineve in the Latin bible.

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