[B-Greek] pepoithos in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13?

Philip phil-eng at ighmail.com
Tue Oct 28 00:56:56 EST 2003


PepoiqwV is a difficult word to translate/ interpret
I find PepoiqwV (pepoithos) in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13 a difficult
word to interpret and translate. This is because as a participle[1], (i.e. a
verbal adjective, having the characteristics of both verbs and adjectives),
treating it either verbally or adjectivally in the Greek New Testament
Hebrews 2:13 context does not yield any meaningful phrase. For example, the
participle pepoiqwV  (pepoithos) cannot be treated as an adjective in Greek
New Testament Hebrews 2:13 because there is no noun or pronoun that it
qualifies. Neither can pepoiqwV be treated as a verb because of the
‘post-ceeding’ word esomai, which is also a verb. Treating pepoiqwV
(pepoithos) as a verb will in effect be putting two verbs together which
again will render the phrase, ‘esomaipepoiqwV’ (‘esomai pepoithos ’), and
indeed the entire sentence in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13 meaningless.


Any thoughts?



Philip Engmann



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[1] Harold K. Moulton, The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised, Michigan: Grand
Rapids, Zondervan Publishing House, 1990. Page 317.


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