Question on Genesis 34:3 LXX
Jerker Karlsson
jerker.karlsson at kdu.se
Wed Nov 6 21:33:46 EST 2002
jwest at highland.net writes:
>the preposition par + the verb tithemi... to set beside, to set aside, to
>dedicate. sounds like "saint" a bit doesn't it.
I must say that I believe the time of etymological exegesis and
lexicography to be by gone. We can't determine the meaning of words just
by determining the parts from which the were originally taken. An proof
within the context of Greek lexicography would be the word EPAGW.
Certainly it has the meaning "to bring/lead TI upon TINI" but it also,
among many other things, means to urge someone. A more clear example but
in english (much more easy to come up with goodones:-) would be the word
jerkwater.
By the way, isn't the word PARQENEIAS (meaning the sons of a concubine) an
indication that the sexual intercourse had very little to do with the
primary meaning of the word but that its rather a derived meaning in a
context there the unmarried were supposed to refrain from sexual activity
unless married?
Jerker Karlsson
Lund, Sweden
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