Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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Stephen Hughes
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Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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In Greek, the New Testament is called "Καινὴ Διαθήκη".

Does the phrase "Καινὴ Διαθήκη" occur in the New Testament?
If "YES" how many times / where?

Suplimentary:
Does the phrase occur in the LXX? etc.
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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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Stephen Hughes wrote:In Greek, the New Testament is called "Καινὴ Διαθήκη".

Does the phrase "Καινὴ Διαθήκη" occur in the New Testament?
If "YES" how many times / where?.
2x
Luke 22:2] καὶ τὸ ποτήριον ὡσαύτως μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι, λέγων· τοῦτο τὸ ποτήριον ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη ἐν τῷ αἵματί μου τὸ ὑπὲρ ὑμῶν ἐκχυννόμενον.
1 Cor 11:25 ὡσαύτως καὶ τὸ ποτήριον μετὰ τὸ δειπνῆσαι λέγων· τοῦτο τὸ ποτήριον ἡ καινὴ διαθήκη ἐστὶν ἐν τῷ ἐμῷ αἵματι· τοῦτο ποιεῖτε, ὁσάκις ἐὰν πίνητε, εἰς τὴν ἐμὴν ἀνάμνησιν.
Stephen Hughes wrote:Supplementary:
Does the phrase occur in the LXX? etc.
Jawohl!
Jer 38:31 (=31:31) Ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, φησὶν κύριος, καὶ διαθήσομαι τῷ οἴκῳ Ισραηλ καὶ τῷ οἴκῳ Ιουδα διαθήκην καινήν,
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)

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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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cwconrad wrote:2x
Luke 22:2, 1 Cor 11:25
Es tut mir leid, mein lieber Herr Conrad, diese beiden sind gute, aber es gibt weitere.
(Good start, but there's more)
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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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Stephen Hughes wrote:
cwconrad wrote:2x
Luke 22:2, 1 Cor 11:25
Es tut mir leid, mein lieber Herr Conrad, diese beiden sind gute, aber es gibt weitere.
(Good start, but there's more)
Heb. 8:8 cites the text of Jer 31:31:
μεμφόμενος γὰρ αὐτοὺς λέγει·
ἰδοὺ ἡμέραι ἔρχονται, λέγει κύριος,
καὶ συντελέσω ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰσραὴλ
καὶ ἐπὶ τὸν οἶκον Ἰούδα διαθήκην καινήν ...
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)

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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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Noch weitere... (Keep going...)
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2 Cor 3:6
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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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cwconrad wrote:Luke 22:2, 1 Cor 11:25 ... Heb. 8:8
S Walch wrote:2 Cor 3:6
I believe there are more. The question is still open.
cwconrad wrote:Jer 38:31 (=31:31)
This is the only one that I am aware of in the LXX, but I would be surprised if there were no more.
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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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Heb 9:15 is the final one.

Unless there's a variant in a manuscript at Heb 12:24 for διαθήκης νέας.

Plus there really is only the one διαθήκην καινήν in the LXX. There are quite a lot of διαθήκη/ν/ς κυριου though (62) and διαθήκη/ν/ς μου (46).
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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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BlueLetterBible has a nifty search function that allows you to combine Strong's numbers in a search for multiple words occuring in the same verse. Probably less time consuming than using Logos or whatever one uses for more intensive searches.

Here's the result:

http://www.blbclassic.org/search/transl ... 2537&t=KJV

For LXX, I searched for the Hebrew equivalent, with the expectation that the Greek mirrored the Hebrew:

http://www.blbclassic.org/search/transl ... 1285&t=KJV

It's only one verse, so not hard to verify that.
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Re: Trivia: The words Καινὴ Διαθήκη?

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Mike Baber wrote:BlueLetterBible...

http://www.blbclassic.org/search/transl ... 2537&t=KJV
It seems that the other two verses I was counting on being included - Matthew 26:28 and Mark 14:24 - use the phrase in TR/Byz but not in SBL/NAUSB, so there are 2 correct answers dependent on the text one uses.

Blue letter Bible must use the TR or Byz as the basis of the search.
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