PHROW and PWROW

Wieland Willker willker at chemie.uni-bremen.de
Fri Aug 9 16:33:24 EDT 2002


Penner wrote:
> Which manuscripts have PHROW?

P66, P75, 01, K, Pi-c, W, 579, pc

> A possible reason for the change is that PHROW seems to be the more
> common of these rare words (about 5 times as frequent in Greek
> literature outside the NT),

This is possible.
Do you have examples where the meaning is definitely different?

Regarding the Greek Bible:
Note that in Job 17:7  01c, A, pc read PHROW.
Note that in Mk 8:17 D* reads PHROW.
Note that in Rom 11:7 C, 69 read PHROW.

It appears to me that in the NT context the difference in meaning seems to be very small.


Richard Allan Stauch wrote:
> There are many other uses of a form of PWROW in this context
> in NT Greek, many more (IMHO) than there are similar uses of PHROW.

Do you have some edifying examples?

The initial reason for my question was:
Was the change in Jo 12:40 intended to change the meaning, or was it more or less
accidentally, retaining basically the same meaning, possibly because PHROW was more
common?


Best wishes
    Wieland
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