[B-Greek] PLHROFOLIA???

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Aug 10 06:08:27 EDT 2003


At 12:16 AM -0700 8/10/03, Kenneth Litwak wrote:
>   I read  a scholarly article last night that linked
>PLHROFOREW in Luke 1:1 with the "rhetorical" word
>PLHROFOLIA.  I have searched in multiple places, LSJ,
>Perseus, etc., and I cannot find PLHROFOLIA.  I can
>find PLHROFORIA, which means "asurance," but I cannot
>find PLHROFOLIA at all.  Does anyone have a beter
>lexicon or is there a typo in the article?  (For those
>who care, it's in The Rhetorical Interpretation of
>Scripture, ed. by S. Porter, p. 165).  Thanks.

I don't believe that you'll find PLHROFOLIA in any authentic lexical source
for ancient Greek: on the very surface it looks like the sort of weird
combination of Greek and Latin roots that might mean something like
"fullness of foliage."

While I'm at it, I was somewhat dumfuzzled(?) at a note from Ben Crik cited
by Eric Weiss yesterday purporting to describe verb charts in a 5th edition
of JH Moulton's /An Introduction to the Study of New Testament Greek for
contract verbs, "Table III  Contracted Verbs  FANAW  TIMEW  DHLOW"--I'm
wondering what this newly-discovered verb FANAW might be.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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