[B-Greek] ANHR and ANQRWPOS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Apr 10 22:41:26 EDT 2004
At 7:35 PM -0400 4/10/04, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>In homeric Greek there is some distinction between ANHR and ANQRWPOS.
>The former can mean a man as opposed to a woman (a real man), and the
>latter, a man as opposed to a god (a mere man).
>Is this distinction still present in Koine or are these two words pretty
>well synonymous.
Bert, you really ought to look carefully at the BDAG and L&N accounts of
these words for specifics; it's all too easy to generalize, so as to say:
ANHR does fundamentally refer to an adult male or a male as distinguished
from a GUNH, ANQRWPOS to a person/human-being who may be male or female
depending upon the context; but ANDRES may be used of a group that is not
necessarily exclusively male, and ANQRWPOS, even where it refers to males
only, has more to do with the HUMANITY of the persons thus indicated than
with their masculine gender. But do look at the reference works which
discuss and offer examples of usage in the GNT.
--
Carl W. Conrad
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