TETRACHLISMENA

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Sep 12 10:14:25 EDT 2002


At 10:04 AM -0400 9/12/02, leonard cottrell wrote:
>can anyone help with the derivation and usage of  TETRACHLISMENA  (HEB.
>IV, 13) -I CAN'T FIND IT IN W. BAUER lexicon.
>L.G. Cottrell

The verb is TRACHLIZW, defined thus by BDAG:

TRACHLIZW (TRACHLOS) perf. pass. ptc. TETRACHLISMENOS (Theophr., Teles et
al. in a different mng. [twist the neck, etc.]; Philo, Cher. 78, Mos. 1,
297; Jos., Bell. 4, 375; PPetr II, 15 [1]a, 2); in its only occurrence in
our lit. PANTA GUMNA KAI TETRACHLISMENA TOIS OFQALMOIS Hb 4:13 it must
certainly mean lay bear: everything is open and laid bare to the eyes
(Hesychius explains TETGRACHLISMENA with PEFANERWMENA, and as early as
Oenomaus in Eus., PE 5, 29, 5 we have MISQOU TRACHELIZEIN ='reveal' or
'open for a price').-WWood, Exp. 9th ser., 3, 1925, 444-55; CSpicq, RB 58,
'51, 484 n. 2; HMontefiore, The Epistle to the Hebrews '64, 89 ('everything
is naked and prostrate before . . . him').-DELG s.v. TRACHLOS. M-M.
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