hit / WO function (was: Quirk ...)

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Sun Feb 6 14:18:49 EST 2000


To: Randall Buth,

<< 1. Would you have some texts for hitting balls? e.g. paiein instead to 
tuptein? >>

No, and my reason for choosing PAIW wasn't too sophisticated. What I did 
was look in Woodhouse's "English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the 
Attic Language," which gives a number of words for "hit," and found: 
KROUEIN, TUPTEIN, KOPTEIN, PATAXAI, PAIEIN, QEINEIN, & ARASSEIN. Then I 
looked in Louw & Nida's "Greek-English Lexicon" and saw TUPTW & PAIW given 
(at 19.1). Then I looked at Xenophon's vocabulary for  the "Anabasis," and 
found that Xenophon didn't use TUPTW. And then after looking at LSMJ's 
entry for PAIW, I thought it might be acceptable.

<< I always run into these kinds of questions when developing material. >>

Me too. The other day I was wondering if QURA might also mean "doorway" in 
addition to meaning "door." After reading the entry on QURA in LSMJ, it 
seemed to me that it does. And just now, looking in Louw & Nida I found the 
following comment:

<< In Jn 10.9 the emphasis is upon the door as a passageway and not as an 
object closing off an entrance. Literal translations of 'I am the door' may 
often lead to misinterpretation, since the term used for 'door' is likely 
to refer to a literal door rather than to the entranceway, thus suggesting 
that Jesus Christ functions primarily to prevent passage rather than making 
entrance possible >> (7.39).

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
FWIW: I'm neither a clergy-person, nor an academic (and I have no post-grad 
degrees).




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