long words

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Fri Sep 6 12:37:08 EDT 2002


Dear Ward and my fellow b-greekers,

On Fri, 06 Sep 2002 22:45:46 +1000 "B. Ward Powers"
<bwpowers at optusnet.com.au> writes:
> Hi, all.
> 
> I find it intriguing to read the long words that people have found.
> 
> And what particularly interests me is to see how many morphs 
> (meaning-bits) 
> we can find in the one word.
> 
> SUGKATA-KLHRONOMH-QH-S-O-NTAI: 6 morphs.
> 
> SUGKATA-TE-QEI-MEN-OS: 5 morphs.
> 
> PRO-KE-CEIROTONH-MEN-OIS: 5 morphs.
> DEISIDAIMON-ESTER-OUS: 3 morphs.
> 
> My candidate for the word form in the New Testament with the most 
> morphs is 
> a variant reading in Mark 15:10: PAR-E-DE-DW-K-EI-SAN. Only 14 
> letters 
> (many fewer than some of the long words in this thread), but 7 
> morphs. I 
> think it is the only 7-morph word in the Greek NT (and then not 
> found in 
> this form in the critical text, which has PARADEDWKEISAN instead, 
> with 6 
> morphs).
> 
> Have I missed any other 7-morph word?
> 

Pardon me, Ward, but I would say that you have:

SUG-KATA-KLHRO-NOMH-QH-S-O-NTAI: 8 morphs.

Besides which...

SUG-KATA-TE-QEI-MEN-OS: 6 morphs.

PRO-KE-CEIRO-TONH-MEN-OIS: 6 morphs.

DEISI-DAIMON-ESTER-OUS: 4 morphs.

On the other hand, maybe you haven't missed any other words EXACTLY 7
morphs long!  ;-)  None of the above is just that long.

Or perhaps I have misunderstood the meaning of "morph."

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA




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