Why MOICOS?

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Sat May 5 08:25:44 EDT 2001


Henryk Jedraszczak wrote;

>>>>>>I hereby repeat my suggestion that we should, or might, discuss the

difference between the Greek words MOICEIA, PORNEIA and any other related

terms.  

By the way, MOICOS is the doer,  the deed is MOICEIA, according to good old

German dictionaries.<<<<<<

Loew & Nida have the following information. It seems adequate to me. The 
Greek in the article may be garbled but I think you can tell what it is.
88.276 moiceu/w; moica¿omai; moicei÷a, aß f. sexual intercourse of a man with 
a married woman other than his own spouse — ‘to commit adultery, adultery.’ 


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