ὄνομα and ὄνομά. What's the difference?
Posted: December 26th, 2018, 3:53 am
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I'm not a student of Greek but this is the only page that showed up when I searched for this exact form of ὄνομά. I am researching the Greek behind Revelation 3:12 and noticed two different forms of the word ὄνομα and ὄνομά. What's the difference? I'm curious why it was translated this way when it appears, to a lay like me, to be saying, "the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God and My new name." This implies the New Jerusalem comes down from God (the Father) AND from His Son's name (His character or authority), which makes sense because other passages tell us that everything was made through Him. The New Jerusalem takes on His character and authority.
I've attached a screenshot of my two interlinear Bibles. I'd be very happy if anyone can help shed some light on this. In digging into the Greek I'm finding there are many assumptions made in the translations which, even to a lay like me, are obviously either rushed or come from a serious lack of understanding of Greek (or a third possibility that perhaps passages were translated according to limitations placed on translators by the Church).
1) For continuing participation, please notify a moderator of your real name so that we can change your screen name accordingly. This is a formal B-Greek policy.
2) Full participation requires that you have at least begun studying Greek, either informally or formally. -- BH
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I'm not a student of Greek but this is the only page that showed up when I searched for this exact form of ὄνομά. I am researching the Greek behind Revelation 3:12 and noticed two different forms of the word ὄνομα and ὄνομά. What's the difference? I'm curious why it was translated this way when it appears, to a lay like me, to be saying, "the New Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from My God and My new name." This implies the New Jerusalem comes down from God (the Father) AND from His Son's name (His character or authority), which makes sense because other passages tell us that everything was made through Him. The New Jerusalem takes on His character and authority.
I've attached a screenshot of my two interlinear Bibles. I'd be very happy if anyone can help shed some light on this. In digging into the Greek I'm finding there are many assumptions made in the translations which, even to a lay like me, are obviously either rushed or come from a serious lack of understanding of Greek (or a third possibility that perhaps passages were translated according to limitations placed on translators by the Church).