long words

Vincent Broman broman at spawar.navy.mil
Thu Sep 5 13:14:50 EDT 2002


On Wednesday, 4 September 2002 09:50, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
> In a message dated 9/4/02 11:40:11 AM, rduggin at comcast.net writes:
> >SUGKATAKLHRONOMHQHSONTAI
> >Off the top of my head, I can't think of a longer verb in biblical
> >literature.

> >The longest one I can recall in the NT is the aor. infin.
> >ANAKEFALAIWSASQAI, Ep.1:10.

> What of SUGKATATEQEIMENOS in Luke 23:51 = 17 letters. I can't think of
> others at the moment.
> Carlton Winbery

The longest words in the na26/27 NT are easily found by sed|tr|grep|sort.
PROKEXEIROTONHMENOIS acts-10-41
DEISIDAIMONESTEROUS acts-17-22
KATADUNASTEUOMENOUS acts-10-38

Trust a doctor to use the six foot words.

Vincent Broman
San Diego




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