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I'm confused about this and think the font might be throwing me off. I'm wondering if this is an accurate spelling of the Jesus Prayer in Greek or if there are any issues with it before I order it. Thank you in advance.
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The spelling checks out, but the typeface is weird.
Yeah, the rhos are throwing me off, and it mixes two different variants of the sigma. Also using "S" for a sigma is odd, it's usually either "C" or "Σ". And the lambda is lowercase while everything else is all caps. Really strange typographic choices, even though the spelling is right.
I don't speak or write Greek, but it says: Κύριε Ἰησοῦ Χριστέ, ἐλέησόν με (Kyrie Iesou Christe, eleison me) So something like: Lord Jesus Christ, have mercy on me.
It's kind of a shorter form of the Jesus prayer, and it's all caps (Lord Jesus Christ have mercy on me) in standard modern greek without the accent/breathing marks ΚΥΡΙΕ ΙΗΣΟΥ ΧΡΙΣΤΕ, ΕΛΕΗΣΟΝ ΜΕ
ah yeah so i found it confusing that the Σ in xriste and eleison look different 😣
The font is strange; Σ has two lower case forms, σ and ς, but the latter normally goes at the end of a word, and they're using it in the middle.
Using a C is pretty common in iconography though, which might be the inspiration here. But using something that looks like an S is unusual.
I wasn't looking at the first two lines, but yes, they're using C like you sometimes see on an icon. I was looking at the ΕΛΕΗΣΟΝ on the last line, and yes, they used the little ending "s" there, and it looked strange to me too.
The r in Kyrie looks more like a delta (d) and they've used a western s in eleison (the other s sounds look like a c which is more traditional in koine Greek, or they could have used a sigma but the western s is not a Greek letter) but I suppose reading it out there's nothing incorrect.
I don't think that is a western S; I think it is a ς; I learned that only goes at the end of a word; maybe it is supposed to be koine and it is correct in koine?
It's true that ς only goes at the end of a word, everywhere else you'd use σ. But that's only for lower case, in upper case you'd always use Σ wherever it's placed, though it's not uncommon for Σ to be replaced by a C in ecclesiastical fonts. So whatever they were going for here, the character S is not correct at all but the spelling is correct if that makes sense!
I know what you're saying; it's almost like someone (sort of) transliterated, accidentally took the lower case and didn't know (or notice/understand) the difference between Σ, σ and ς. Doesn't really matter because I'm not buying it, but I'm glad the OP noticed something funny about it.
