[B-Greek] YALLW and ADW

Doug Hoxworth dhoxworth at charter.net
Wed Sep 17 15:52:40 EDT 2003


yeah that's what i was thinking as i've been following 
this thread. the terms themselves do not appear to have 
anything to say about whether or not it is acapella or 
with instrumentation. so to argue either inclusion or 
exclusion of instrumental accompaniment based upon the 
word alone is to commit the etymological fallacy or 
something. it seems to me that this is an issue that can 
only be decided upon by the context that the words are 
used in and not by the words themselves.

as to whether they are synonymns or not, perhaps they can 
be used as synonymns in some contexts, but as Eph 5 seems 
to show there is some distinction (i.e., they are not 
synonymns here). and again, i think it is a fallacy to 
read into either of the terms that one is with instruments 
and one is not. this is something that it seems can only 
be supplied by context and not the mere appearance of the 
word.

On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 16:26:00 -0300
  "Brent Hudson" <brent at riveroflifembchurch.com> wrote:
>I guess my point would be that that neither ShYR or ADW 
>have anything to say about whether the 'singing' is 
>acapella or with instrumentation -- just like the English 
>"sing" does not have that semantic information encoded 
>within it.  It may always refer to the 'voice' but that's 
>all.  I can't 'sing' a guitar or 'sing' a beat (cf., ADW) 
>but that doesn't mean that some instrument is not 
>accompanying my singing (so Ex 15.21).  
>
>In short, I don't think either YALLW and ADW tell us 
>whether there is instrumental accompaniment or not.  ADW 
>in the LXX may refer to 'singing' and not 'playing' but 
>it says nothing about whether someone is 'playing' with 
>the 'singing' nor does it imply that there is no 
>"playing" with the "singing".  I don't think that 
>information is encoded in the term.
>
>Thoughts??
>
>Brent Hudson



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