Antiquitates 15: 260
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Nov 8 12:58:54 EST 2002
At 11:53 AM -0500 11/8/02, Jim West wrote:
>At 09:23 AM 11/8/02 -0500, you wrote:
>>
>>----- Original Message -----
>>From: <jwest at highland.net>
>>To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>>Cc: <b-greek at franklin.oit.unc.edu>
>
>>Jim, could you provide lexicographical support (i.e., parallels) of this
>>rather
>>unusual usage of APO?
>
>first let me remind you that i am talking about apo being "like" and alpha
>privative (in this case). it is analogous to an alpha privative- other
>analogous examples are found discussed in Blass-Debrunner:
It looks like you've taken these directly from the Index of Greek Words and
Forms, p. 277. If you checked the paragraphs in BDF, I wonder how you can
claim that any of these usages of APO indicates anything "like" an alpha
privative.
>161(1)
This is with verbs or expressions already containing the notion of distance
away.
>182
This is with adjective and adverbs of separation.
>140
This concerns usage of APO PROSWPOU representing the Hebrew expression for
"away from"
>217(1)(3)
(1) more on APO PROSWPOU representing Hebrew "away from"
(3) concerns Hebraism AKOUEIN with APO + gen. in sense "hear someone"
(where Greek uses AKOUW + genitive
>241(2)(3)
(2) concerns elliptical expressions,in this case AF' hHS (hHMERAS)
(3) I don't see APO in this par. at all.
>459(3)
This concerns the usage of APO TOTE, which means "thenceforth," hardly
"like" an alpha privative.
>etc.
>
>jim
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Carl W. Conrad
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