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by david zaitzeff
August 27th, 2011, 2:39 pm
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: aspazomai meanings
Replies: 2
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Re: aspazomai meanings

current learning/view 1) There is a word in koine and modern Greek for hug. It is ankaliazo. (In Greek, it is spelt agkaliazo, but if I remember correctly, the g becomes an n sound when placed before a k.) The word is used twice in the New Testament, when speaking of Jesus holding the little childre...
by david zaitzeff
August 25th, 2011, 12:45 pm
Forum: Word Meanings
Topic: aspazomai meanings
Replies: 2
Views: 4228

aspazomai meanings

25 years ago, I went to a church in which it was normal to hug in greeting (all or nearly all) and it was even often done that one kissed in greeting friends. And since then I have visited other churches in which people hug and kiss much less in greeting . . . and that has indirectly led to a discus...

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