A greek defintion of ERCOMAI
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Jul 10 15:27:38 EDT 2002
At 2:38 PM -0400 7/10/02, Mike Sangrey wrote:
>I just thought of something fun.
>
>How would you define ERCOMAI by using Koine Greek? No English allowed.
>I'm thinking of something like an entry in a 1st century dictionary of
>Koine.
>
>The term `koine' is a poor choice, but I'm thinking primarily about
>limiting the vocabulary to that cited in NT lexicons.
>
>Synonyms and antonyms are allowed, even encouraged, though I suppose we
>would have to borrow terms for `synonym' and `antonym' from
>extra-Biblical vocabulary.
What the point of the question is I cannot fathom. ERCOMAI is used 634x in
the GNT, with the following distribution (from Accordance):
Total Hits per
Hits 1000 words
Matthew 114 5.37
Mark 85 6.50
Luke 101 4.50
John 157 8.62
Acts 52 2.49
Romans 10 1.21
1Corinthians 18 2.22
2Corinthians 16 3.08
Galatians 8 3.01
Ephesians 2 0.72
Philippians 3 1.57
Colossians 2 1.09
1Thessalonians 4 2.33
2Thessalonians 2 2.12
1Timothy 4 2.15
2Timothy 4 2.77
Titus 1 1.29
Philemon 0 0.00
Hebrews 5 0.88
James-
1Peter 0 0.00
2Peter 1 0.80
1John 4 1.60
2John 2 7.19
3John 2 7.87
Jude 1 1.87
Revelation 36 3.24
The verb most commonly used as its equivalent is hUPAGW, the source of the
MG verb "go" which is PAW.
hUPAGW is used 79x in the GNT; it's noteworthy, in my opinion, that the
most frequent usage is in Mark & John, whose vocabulary has always seemed
to me the most "common" in the GNT. Distribution for hUPAGW:
Total Hits per
Hits 1000 words
Matthew 19 0.89
Mark 15 1.15
Luke 5 0.22
John 32 1.76
Acts-
Hebrews 0 0.00
James 1 0.48
1Peter-
2Peter 0 0.00
1John 1 0.40
2John-
Jude 0 0.00
Revelation 6 0.54
This probably has no bearing whatsoever on Mike's all-too-well-hidden agenda.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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