ENQUMEOMAI

Charles Skallerud karolus at wf.net
Sat Mar 4 21:18:51 EST 2000


QUMOS is not restricted to anger or other negative emotions.  I happen to have come across it in Homer lately where it can mean the fundamental power of life in an individual.  Languages have long memories. I think in the passage it merely refers to the mind reflecting.

Charles Skallerud
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Neil Booth 
  To: Biblical Greek 
  Sent: Saturday, March 04, 2000 6:08 AM
  Subject: ENQUMEOMAI


  According to every translation of Matthew 1:20 that I can lay my hands on, Joseph was merely "thinking about" or "considering" his decision to put Mary away privately because of her pregnancy. Likewise, in Matthew 9:4, the scribes are said merely to be "thinking" after they have heard Jesus purport to forgive the sins of the paralytic. Three questions, please, from an elementary Greeker:
   
  1. Am I correct in thinking that the verb used in both instances -- ENQUMEOMAI -- must once have had a QUMOS content -- anger?
   
  2. If so, had that content completely disappeared by the time Matthew came to use the verb?
   
  3. If not, would it be permissible to translate the verb as "to fret" or even "to fume" in both instances?
   
  Neil Booth
  Bradford, England

  For Booth's Bible Brief visit http://www.bbb.ndo.co.uk
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