Pauls Vocabulary (was: NT-Vocabulary)

Jürg Buchegger j.buchegger at datacomm.ch
Wed Dec 11 02:37:23 EST 2002


Hello,

over a week ago I promised to give you my list of 94 words from the 13
letters
of the corpus paulinum, that are candidates to be pauline neologisms. As you
can see (notes), there are enough reasons to suggest that a lot of them are
not
really words coined by Paul, but one is remembered that this is just a
statistical
research I have done and not more. My educated guess is, that at least half
of
the words in the list are no real neologisms of Paul. In my dissertation on
ANAKAINWSIS/ANAKAINWO I found that it is very likely that Paul coined
this term. Happy reading...

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Here is the list of the 94 words I found in the Corpus Paulinum (all 13
epistles
claiming to be written by Paul), being "possible neologisms". "Possible",
because
this is just a statistical list.

A. There are about 87 words, which are for the first time found in Paul and
after him

[ ] meaning: with other attestations already in the NT
* meaning: very high probability that the first occurence is really in Paul
note: The word IN THIS FORM has not been found; e.g. the  noun or adverb of
the
same word is perhaps already known B.C.

GREEK WORD                                                NOTES
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
[AGATHOERGEW 1 Tim 6:18; Acts 14:17]     ev. Herodot hist. 1.67.5 ?
hAGNOTHS  2 Cor 6:6; 11:3                          see Cornutus; CIG 1133,15
hAIRETIKOS  Tit 3:10                                       Pseudo-Plato def.
412 A
AMETANOHTOS  Rom 2:5
ANAKAINOW  2 Cor 4:16; Col 3:10
ANAKAINWSIS  Rom 12:2; Tit 3:5
ANEKDIHGHTOS 2 Cor 9:15
ANEXIKAKOS  2 Tim 2:24
ANEPAISCHUNTOS 2 Tim 2:15                       Josephus
ANTILUTRON  1 Tim 2:6
ANTIMISTHIA  Rom 1:27; 2 Cor 6:13
APEKDUOMAI  Col 2:15; 3:9                            Josephus
APEKDUSIS  Col 2:11
APO/DEKTOS  1 Tim 2:3; 5:4 note the accent, normally APODEKTO/S
APOKARADOKIA Rom 8:19; Phil 1:20
APOKATALASSW Eph 2:16; Col 1:20.22
hARPAGMOS  Phil 2:6                                       Plutarch
AUTOKATAKRITOS Tit 3:11                           Philofragment
APHEIDIA   Col 2:23                                           Pseudo-Plato
def. 412 D
[ACHEIROPOIHTOS 2 Cor 5:1; Col 2:11; Marc 14:58]
GUMNITEUW  1 Cor 4:11   instead of GUMNHTEUW
DIAPARATRIBH  1 Tim 6:5
DIERMHNEUTHS 1 Cor 14:28
DILOGOS  1 Tim 3:8                                  ev. PLond 2008,1,12? -->
B.C.
DIWKTHS  1 Tim 1:13
DOKIMH  Rom 5:4; 2 Cor 2:9                     Dioskus (Interpolation?)
   2 Cor 9:13; Phil 2:22;
   2 Cor 8:2; 13:13
hEDRAIWMA 1 Tim 3:15
ETHELOTHRHSKIA  Col 2:23
[EIDWLOLATRIA 1 Cor 10:14; Gal 5:20; Col 3:5; 1 Petr 4:3]
EKZHTHSIS 1 Tim 1:4
ELAPHRIA  2 Cor 1:17                               Papyrus PRain 77,3
(date+text???)
EPIDIATASSOMAI Gal 3:15
EPICHORHGIA Phil 1:19; Eph 4:16             Inscription SIG 818,9
hETERODIDASKALEW  1 Tim 1:3; 6:3
EUMETADOTOS 1 Tim 6:18                       vitae Aesopi
EUPAREDROS 1 Cor 7:35
EPHEURETHS Rom 1:30                             Anacreontea 38,3
HREMOS  1 Tim 2:2
THEODIDAKTOS  1 Thess 4:9                  SybOr (date?)
THEOPNEUSTOS  2 Tim 3:16                  SybOr (date?) and Plutarch
THEOTHS  Col 2:9                                    Plutarch; ev.?
Bacchylides Dithryrambos 29(a)
KATAKRISIS 2 Cor 3:9; 7:3                      PStras 5,334
KATARTISIS 2 Cor 13:9                           Plutarch
KATASTRHNIAW 1 Tim 5:11
KENOPHWNIA 1 Tim 6:20; 2 Tim 2:16     Dioskur
LOGOMACHEW 2 Tim 2:14
MATAIOLOGIA 1 Tim 1:6                         Plutarch
METHODEIA Eph 4:14; 6:11; see also p46 in 6:12
MEMBRANA 2 Tim 4:13
OIKOURGOS Tit 2:5
OKTAHMEROS Phil 3:5
OLOTHREUTHS 1 Cor 10:10
OPTHOPODEW Gal 2:14
PARABOLEUOMAI Phil 2:30
PEISMONH Gal 5:8
PERPEREUOMAI 1 Cor 13:4
[PLHROPHORIA Col 2:2; 1 Thess 1:5; Hebr 6:11; 10:22;
                               ev. Rom 15,29?          Aesop Proverbia
69,3?]
PROENARCHOMAI 2 Cor 8:6; 8:10
PROSTATIS Rom 16:2                            Cornutus, Plutarch; Sophokles
Oedipus
                                                                 Coloneus
458?; SB 3.6211? (date?)
[PROSWPOLHMPSIA Rom 2:11; Eph 6:9; Col 3:25; Jam 2:1]
SUGKAKOPATHEW 2 Tim 1:8; 2:3
SUZHTHTHS 1 Cor 1:20
SUZWOPOIEW Eph 2:5; Col 2;13
SULAGWGEW Col 2:8
SUMMORPHIZW Phil 3:10
SUMPHWNHSIS 2 Cor 6:15
SUMPSUCHOS Phil 2:2
SUNAICHMALWTOS Rom 16:7; Col 4:10; Philem 23
SUNARMOLOGEW Eph 2:12; 4:16
SUNHLIKIWTHS Gal 1:14                 ev. Diodorus Siculus 1,53,10?;
                                                            ev. Dionysius
Halicarnassensis 10,49,2?;
                                                            ev. CIG 4929
(Philae 8)?
SUSSWMOS Eph 3:6
TUPIKWS  1 Cor 10:11
[huperakmos is probably pre-christian, found in Praecepta Salubria (11 and
18)]
hUPEREKEINA 2 Cor 10:16
hUPEREKTEINW 2 Cor 10:14
hUPERENTUGCHANW Rom 8:26
hUPERLIAN 2 Cor 11:5; 12:11
hUPERPERISSEUW Rom 5:20
                                    2 Cor 7:4
hUPSHLOPHRONEW 1 Tim 6:17; ev. Rom 11,20?
PHAILONHS 2 Tim 4:13
PHEIDOMENWS 2 Cor 9:6 (2x)             Plutarch (Bauer (german version) says
"9b",
                                                                but read "6b
")
PHRENAPATAPW Gal 6:3                     Philo Fragment 17,1?
PHUSIWSIS 2 Cor 12:20
CHOIKOS  1 Cor 15:47.48.49                SybOr (date?)
CHRHSTEUOMAI 1 Cor 13:4
CHRHSTOLOGIA Rom 16:18
PSEUDADELPHOS 2 Cor 11:26; Gal 2:4
PSEUDAPOSTOLOS 2 Cor 11:13

B. There are 7 words, that have - to my knowledge, to this date - only been
found in Paul and in texts of Churchfathers, citing the biblical text

APHILAGATHOS  2 Tim 3:3                       + 6x in Churchfathers
EPIPOTHIA  Rom 15:23                              + 11x in Churchfathers
KALODIDASKALOS Tit 2:3                      + 9x in Churchfathers
OPHTHALMODOULIA Eph 6:6; Col 3:22  + 23x in Churchfathers
PEITHO/S   1 Cor 2:4                                  IG XII,8 360,1?; PSI
1328,44?
PROAITIAOMAI  Rom 3:9
SUMMIMHTHS  Phil 3:17

Jürg Buchegger
Dr. theol.
senior pastor EFC Buchs, Switzerland





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