[B-Greek] petros and petras

reznik1 at juno.com reznik1 at juno.com
Fri Sep 5 15:47:07 EDT 2003


Hi Richard,

-- Richard Ghilardi <qodeshlayhvh at juno.com> wrote:

>If you wanted a masculine name that reflected the meaning of PETRA you
>would use PETRAS, -OU or -A.

Maybe I would use PETRAS as you say. But the authors of the gospels wouldn't. Because by their time there already had been a Jewish (!) name Petros borrowed from the Greek word. 

"Along with petra, petros entered the Hebrew language: Petros was the father of a sage of the land of Israel, Rabbi Yose ben Petros,15 who was active around 200–250 A.D., placing his father, Petros, as early as the second half of the second century A.D."

It is just an example. Whoever translated the sayings of Jesus into Greek didn't have to invent the wheel: he just used a name Petros that already existed, and which was most similar to the work PETRA to which Jesus compared Peter.

Dmitriy Reznik



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