huponoia
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Dec 3 13:11:38 EST 2002
At 12:55 PM -0500 12/3/02, Matthew R. Miller wrote:
>Can anyone give a brief, Kittelesque article on huponesque, from 1 Timothy
>6:4? I just do not have the resources to do it myself. Any help would be
>greatly appreciated. Thanks!
This is one word about which etymology is useful to some little extent, but
still one has to look at usage. It means "underlying notion/thought" and in
Plato tends to be used for the range of connotations and allusive
references associated with a word; in the NT it may be used for "suspicion"
or "suggested/suggestive sense" related to someone or something, an
"underlying thought." I cite below the definitions from BDAG and Louw &
Nida:
BDAG:
hUPONOIA, AS, hH (hUPONOEW; Thu. et al.; pap, LXX; EpArist 316; Philo;
Jos., Bell. 1, 227; 631; Ath. 1, 4) opinion or conjecture based on slight
evidence, suspicion, conjecture hUPONOIAI PONHRAI evil conjectures, false
suspicions 1 Ti 6:4 (Sir 3:24 hUPONOIA PONHRA).-B. 1244. DELG s.v. no/oß.
M-M. TW.
Louw & Nida:
31.32 hUPONOEW; hUPONOIA, AS f: to have an opinion based on scant evidence,
often with the implication of regarding a false opinion as true - 'to
imagine, to conjecture, to suspect, to falsely suspect, to be suspicious,
suspicion.'
hUPONOEWÚ PERI hOU STAQENTES hOI KATHGOROI OUDEMIAN AITIAN EFERON hWN EGW
hUPENOOUN PONHRWN 'when the accusers stood up, they brought no charge in
his case of such evils as I had suspected' Ac 25:18.
hUPONOIA EX hWN GINETAI ... hUPONOIAI PONHRAI this causes people to
suspect evil' or ' to suspect falsely' or ' be suspicious' 1Tm 6:4.
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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