Question on Genesis 34:3 LXX
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Nov 6 20:20:16 EST 2002
At 4:46 PM -0500 11/6/02, Jim West wrote:
>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".
Do you have any warrant, Jim, for an etymology of PARQENOS as a composite
of PARA and TIQHMI, or is this your own speculative notion? And even if
this WERE a valid etymology for the Greek noun, it wouldn't be
determinative of the range of meanings the word could or does bear in
Biblical Greek or non-Biblical Greek. And the matter under discussion is
the usage of the Greek noun, not what the Hebrew noun in Isaiah 7:14 may
have meant.
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Carl W. Conrad
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