[B-Greek] New to list - a question

B. Keith Brumley bkbrumley at yahoo.com
Wed Sep 17 09:37:03 EDT 2003


Greetings,
 
I'm new to the list. I took nearly 4 years of NT Greek in undergrad school and while I've used my Greek in my ministry these last 10 years, I feel the need to brush up on grammar, syntax, etc. So, I've "joined" and look forward to learning.
 
I have a question as well. I'm studying the topic of music in the early church at the moment. In Eph. 5:19 and Col. 3:16 two words are used; YALLW and ADW (in participle form). In Eph. both are used, and in Col. just ADW is used. 
 
Some scholars indicate that YALLW is used of vocal music only (w/o accompinament of instruments), however, it appears the ADW can be used when accompinament is involved (i.e., Rev. 5:8-9; Rev. 14:2-3; Rev. 15:2-3). 
 
My question: Is ADW used in the time frame of  1 BC-1AD in the sense of "to sing" with instruments? Has anyone done any work on diachronic analysis of these words and the shades of meaning possible (esp. in first century AD)?
 
Keith Brumley
Hillsdale, MI 


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