[B-Greek] Hebrews 8:13 "decayeth and waxeth old"
Jonathan Robie
jonathan.robie at datadirect-technologies.com
Tue Jun 24 13:36:51 EDT 2003
At 01:19 PM 6/24/2003, Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>The only problem here is that, although the root is certainly GER/GHR, the
>vowel is different in different words; it's GHRASKW and GHRAS but GERWN and
>GERAIOS.
Ooops, it should have been:
GHRASKW is old verb from GHRAS (age) like GERWN (old man) and refers
to the decay of old age so that both ideas appear here in opposition
to KAINOS (PALAIOS) and NEOS (GERAIOS).
Thanks for the correction on my spelling - I transcribed Robertson
incorrectly.
Jonathan
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