from NV { Dixit autem … habet necesse rex sponsalia … praeputia … tradere David in manibus … } with MT { ויאמר … אין חפץ למלך במהר … ערלות … להפיל את דוד ביד פלשׁתים׃ } with RHLXX { καὶ εἶπεν … ἀκροβυστίαις … } to { Et dixit … vult rex dotem … stipraeputia … ut caderet David manu … }: AOT: see 2 Samuel 3:14 for “stipraeputia”.
1 Samuel 18:26 —
from NV { … renuntiassent … verba, quae dixerat Saul, … sermo in oculis David, ut fieret gener regis. Et … impleti, } with MT { ויגדו … הדברים האלה … דוד להתחתן במלך … } with RHLXX { … ῥήματα ταῦτα … } with SP { … ܘܰܫܦܰܪ … ܚܰܬܢܳܐ ܠܡܰܠܟܳܐ. … } to { … nuntiarunt … haec verba, … David bene esse generum regis: et … impleti. }: AOPT.
1 Samuel 18:27 —
from NV { cum … abiit cum viris, qui sub eo erant, … attulit praeputia … gener eius. Dedit itaque … } with MT { ויקם … וילך הוא ואנשׁיו … ויבא דוד את ערלתיהם … להתחתן במלך … } with SP { ܘܩܳܡ … ܚܰܬܢܳܐ ܠܡܰܠܟܳܐ. ܘܝܰܗܒ ܠܶܗ … } to { Unde … et abiit, ipse et viri eius, … David attulit stipraeputia … gener regis. Et Saul dedit … }: AOPT: “unde” used to smooth between “et” and “cum” across the versions, see 2 Samuel 3:14 for “stipraeputia”.
2 Samuel 3:14 —
from NV { Misit autem … Saul … praeputiis … } with CV { … Saul, … } with RHLXX { καὶ … } to { Et misit … Saul, … stipraeputiis … }: AOPT:
Josephus Antiquitates Judaicae b6 { … [197] … ἂν ἑξακοσίας μοι κομίσῃ κεφαλὰς τῶν πολεμίων … [201] … Παλαιστίνων δὲ τιμωρίαν καὶ κεφαλὰς αὐτῶν ἑξακοσίας … [203] … Δαυΐδῃ, κτείνας πολλοὺς καὶ κεφαλὰς ἑξακοσίων ἀποτεμὼν ἧκε πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα … [210] … καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα κομίσαντα μὲν ὅσας ἐπετάχθη κεφαλὰς τῶν ἐχθρῶν … [374] … Παλαιστῖνοι τοὺς τῶν πολεμίων νεκροὺς ἐπιτυγχάνουσι τοῖς Σαούλου καὶ τῶν παίδων αὐτοῦ σώμασι καὶ σκυλεύσαντες ἀποτέμνουσιν αὐτῶν τὰς κεφαλάς … }, Josephus Antiquitates Judaicae b7 { … [25] τοῦ δὲ Δαυίδου ποιησαμένου τὰς ὁμολογίας, ἥσθη γὰρ ἐφ᾽ οἷς Ἀβεννῆρος διεπρεσβεύσατο πρὸς αὐτόν, καὶ πρῶτον τεκμήριον παρασχεῖν τῶν συνθηκῶν ἀξιώσαντος ἀνασώσαντα πρὸς αὐτὸν Μελχάλην τὴν γυναῖκα μεγάλοις ὠνηθεῖσαν ὑπ᾽ αὐτοῦ κινδύνοις καὶ Παλαιστίνων κεφαλαῖς ἑξακοσίαις, ἃς ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς ἐκόμισε τῷ πατρὶ Σαούλῳ, … }:
Neologism “stipraeputia” (stipendium praeputia) coined to capture unique intended nuance of a conceptual tally. Stipraeputia allows a conceptual “tally / payment / dowry / scalp / head / counted military war-trophy / proof of victory” whilst preserving foreskin as a potential real countable object and real spoken words. With support from Josephus' parallel text; the passages reflect an idiom equivocal to the common idiom “collect 200 heads/ scalps” used: figuratively for required kills, or physically for cranial collection using foreskin as a colloquialism of targetted groups, or literally for foreskin collection.