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From: heine@barsoom.nhh.no (Heine Rasmussen)
Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
Subject: Re: Can someone tell me what NABLA means?
Message-ID: <997@barsoom.nhh.no>
Date: 20 Aug 90 11:20:17 GMT
References: <993@barsoom.nhh.no> <1380006@gore.com> <334@ra.abo.fi>
Organization: Norwegian School of Economics
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]...  The old Greek
]translation of the Hebrew Bible (the Septuagint) uses different words for
]_nevel_; in some instances (e.g. 1Sam 10,3; 2Sam 6,5) no translation
]at all is given, but a _transliteration_, that is NABLA.

]Nils Martola
]nmartola@ra.abo.fi (Internet)

Correct.  You also have the latin derivation nablium, "a kind of harp
or lyre", used by Ovid somewhere.

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