Question on Genesis 34:3 LXX

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Wed Nov 6 16:46:08 EST 2002


At 04:34 PM 11/6/02 -0500, you wrote:


>I'm not quite sure what the point of this is. Is it that there's supposed
>to be some Greek word that means "a woman without sexual experience" and
>doesn't ever mean anything else? Is it as if we used the word in only one
>way in English? Ever heard of "virgin snow"? My favorite is "extra virgin
>olive oil," which of course is far superior to ordinary "virgin olive oil."
>Perhaps we ought to forget the word "virgin" for PARQENOS and go back to
>the good old Victorian word, "maiden." Everybody knows exactly what that
>means, right?
>-- 
>
>Carl W. Conrad

howdy.
perhaps if we were to dissect the noun and set its parts back together we
could come up with something a bit more helpful than virgin.

the preposition par + the verb tithemi... to set beside, to set aside, to
dedicate.  sounds like "saint" a bit doesn't it.  further, the hebrew noun
"almah" (which after all is behind the greek noun in isaiah) means exactly
that- i.e.- to dedicate, set aside, set beside.

the noun, then, in its hebrew or greek incarnation means simply "a girl set
aside".

best

jim

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