On the Greek text. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs-Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient, public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted critical apparatus is not reproduced. Versification follows the LXX.

The Book of the Prophet Haggai (LXX) — Interlinear: Themes, Outlines & Translation Notes

A consolidated companion to the Haggai data set: every chapter of LXX Haggai (1–2) rendered as a six-tier Greek reverse-interlinear (Greek · gloss · parsing/case · syntax · semantic force · lexical note), with per-verse discourse analysis and a chapter argument-outline.

This document gathers the theme, the argument outline (the outline movements authored into each data file), and the translation / textual / exegetical notes (the text_note of each file, reproduced verbatim) — followed by a summary of the major translation and interpretive cruxes that were deliberately annotated rather than silently resolved. Haggai is the short post-exilic prophecy that confronts returned Judah over neglect of the temple, stirs governor, priest, and people to rebuild, and ties the modest house before them to a future shaking of nations and the elevation of Zerubbabel. The Greek book is compact and direct, with every oracle dated and pointed toward worshipal order. The Greek follows the standard critical text of the Septuagint (Rahlfs–Hanhart in its main wording, itself an ancient public-domain text); the distinctively copyrighted apparatus is not reproduced, and versification follows the LXX.

Scope

Each annotated word carries Greek, a working gloss, color-coded grammatical case, parsing (Tense·Voice·Mood·Person·Number + lemma), a Wallace-style syntactic-function label, an aspectual semantic-force label (verbal forms), and a condensed lexical note. As translation Greek, the annotation additionally flags Hebraisms and the underlying Hebrew idiom where it illuminates the rendering.

The argument of the book

The macro-structure of the whole book — its major movements — under which the chapter-by-chapter detail below unfolds. Haggai is intensely practical and eschatological at once: material hardship is read through temple neglect, while temple rebuilding is framed within future glory. The annotation tracks its dated oracle structure and its temple-centered encouragement. (Section divisions are interpretive; the more common analysis is generally followed.)

• I · 1 — Rebuke, repentance, and renewed work. The people's paneled houses and failed harvests are interpreted through neglect of the house of God, and the remnant obeys the summons to build.
• II · 2 — Future glory, holiness, and Zerubbabel's signet promise. The prophet strengthens discouraged builders, reorders purity thinking around the work, and closes with the promise that Zerubbabel will stand in the coming shaking of kingdoms.

Chapter-by-chapter

Haggai 1 — ΑΓΓΑΙΟΣ Α′

Theme. Neglected worship is exposed through drought until the remnant rises to rebuild the Lord's house.

Outline.

• A · 1:1-2 — The dated oracle confronts the people’s delay. A precisely dated word of the Lord comes through Haggai to Zerubbabel and Joshua, exposing the popular claim that the time to rebuild has not yet arrived.
• B · 1:3-6 — Neglect of the temple explains economic frustration. The Lord rebukes the people for living in well-finished houses while his own house lies desolate and interprets their unfulfilled labor as a sign of disorder.
• C · 1:7-11 — The command to rebuild is joined to a threat of judgment. The people are ordered to gather timber and rebuild the temple, while the Lord explains that he has withheld agricultural blessing and summoned devastation on the land.
• D · 1:12-15 — Leaders and remnant obey, and the Lord stirs them to work. Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the remnant heed the prophetic word, receive the divine assurance of presence, and begin labor on the temple in a newly dated response.

Translation & textual notes. Haggai 1 opens the prophet's first dated oracle in the reign of Darius and frames the rebuilding of the temple as the decisive test of post-exilic fidelity. The chapter moves from accusation to economic diagnosis, then from summons to obedience, showing that the people's material frustration is interpreted through covenantal neglect and reversed only when the Lord stirs them to resume work on his house.

Haggai 2 — ΑΓΓΑΙΟΣ Β′

Theme. The Lord answers discouragement with promised glory, covenant holiness, and the lifting up of Zerubbabel.

Outline.

• A · 2:1-5 — The discouraged builders are told to be strong because the Lord is with them. The prophet addresses Zerubbabel, Joshua, and the remnant, acknowledging the temple’s diminished appearance while grounding renewed labor in the abiding presence of the Lord and his Spirit.
• B · 2:6-9 — The Lord promises to shake the nations and fill the house with glory and peace. A coming cosmic upheaval will bring the nations’ wealth or treasures into the temple, so that the latter glory of the house will surpass the former and become a place of divinely given peace.
• C · 2:10-14 — Priestly rulings expose the people’s impurity. By appealing to priestly decisions about contagion and uncleanness, Haggai shows that impurity spreads through the people’s works even where holiness does not.
• D · 2:15-19 — Past covenant discipline gives way to promised blessing from the temple’s refounding. The people are told to reflect on earlier agricultural frustration and to mark the day of the temple’s refoundation as the turning point from judgment toward blessing.
• E · 2:20-23 — Zerubbabel is chosen amid the overthrow of kingdoms. A final oracle to Zerubbabel promises the collapse of imperial powers and marks him as the Lord’s chosen signet, a representative of restored Davidic hope.

Translation & textual notes. Haggai 2 gathers three linked prophetic words that move from discouragement over the rebuilt temple's modest appearance to eschatological assurance and covenantal promise. The chapter argues that the Lord's present presence with the builders, his future shaking of the nations, his exposure of the community's impurity, and his final choice of Zerubbabel together redefine the restoration as a work sustained not by visible grandeur but by divine election, holiness, and coming glory.

How the data set is organized

• lxx-interlinear/data/haggai{1..2}.json — the durable scholarly content: one JSON object per chapter (reference, titles, text-note, outline, and verses with per-word annotation and per-verse discourse notes). The data set shares the nt-interlinear toolkit and schema with the New Testament volumes.
• lxx-interlinear/ — the LXX data home and index builder; rendering reuses the chapter-agnostic nt-interlinear toolkit (stdlib-only HTML; headless-Chromium PDF). Adding a chapter (or a book) requires no code changes.
• Rendered artifacts — Haggai{1..2}.html and .pdf under lxxsite/Haggai/, linked from its index.html in the Septuagint site root.

The interpretive tiers (syntactic function, semantic force, discourse structure, and the proposed argument outlines) are interpretive by nature; where readings legitimately differ, the more common analysis was generally chosen, and the lexical notes are condensed orientation rather than a substitute for a lexicon (e.g. LEH / Muraoka) or a full commentary.