# Ps. 17:41 LXX

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**Created:** [February 1, 2025, 4:12pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/ps-17-41-lxx/21073 "2025-02-01T16:12:32Z")\
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**Author:** ![CMatthiasT88](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/cmatthiast88/32/195_2.png) [@CMatthiasT88](https://www.textkit.com/u/CMatthiasT88)\
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καὶ _τοὺς ἐχθρούς_ μου _ἔδωκάς_ μοι _νῶτον_ καὶ τοὺς μισοῦντάς με ἐξωλόθρευσας. -Ps. 17.41  
  
  
Here ἔδωκάς seems to take two accusative objects (ἐχθρούς, νῶτον) along with the dative indirect object (μοι) . How should this be understood?

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**Author:** ![jeidsath](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/jeidsath/32/3_2.png) [@jeidsath](https://www.textkit.com/u/jeidsath)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 5:32pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/ps-17-41-lxx/21073/2 "2025-02-01T17:32:46Z")

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I think νῶτον acc. of respect to the enemies. “You’ve delivered my enemies to me in their rear and you have destroyed the ones hating me.”

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**Author:** ![Mitch](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/mitch/32/222_2.png) [@Mitch](https://www.textkit.com/u/Mitch)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 5:41pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/ps-17-41-lxx/21073/3 "2025-02-01T17:41:09Z")

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Might also simply be ungrammatical Greek e.g. the translator seems to be rigidly following the word order of the Hebrew here, see [https://biblehub.com/interlinear/psalms/18-40.htm](https://biblehub.com/interlinear/psalms/18-40.htm)

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**Author:** ![jeidsath](https://www.textkit.com/user_avatar/www.textkit.com/jeidsath/32/3_2.png) [@jeidsath](https://www.textkit.com/u/jeidsath)\
**Post date:** [February 1, 2025, 6:08pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/ps-17-41-lxx/21073/4 "2025-02-01T18:08:34Z")

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I like Mitch’s explanation.

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**Author:** ![tico](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/t/a88e57/32.png) [@tico](https://www.textkit.com/u/tico)\
**Post date:** [February 2, 2025, 3:02pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/ps-17-41-lxx/21073/5 "2025-02-02T15:02:31Z")

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> I like Mitch’s explanation.

It seems so. The sense of τοὺς ἐχθρούς μου ἔδωκάς μοι νῶτον would be: You made my enemies turn their back to me (=run away from me).