[B-Greek] What does this mean

Remington186 at aol.com Remington186 at aol.com
Fri Aug 20 19:45:54 EDT 2004


    ----- Original Message -----
  From: JMonte2000 at aol.com  
  Date: 8/20/04 8:14:48 AM Pacific Daylight Time    
    Hi all
  From Mounce's book.
    He'll say something like this
  "PISTEUW can take a direct object in either the dative or the accusative. 
  It is a cognate verb of PISTIS"
  He mentions this a lot, he'll say it takes 
  Does anyone know what he means? Does this only happen with certain  words
  Also when he says cognate, what does that mean or refer too?
  Jimmy Montesano

Jimmy, Remington Mandel,
If I jump in here the experts will follow.
Cognates are a family of words - cognate means 'having the same ancestor.'  
It's a good thing to know - word families. 
The words you're speaking about are all related through 'the ancestor' PEIQW. 
Which basically mean 'to trust' or 'to entrust.' 
Peiqw was the Greek goddess of Persuasion.
Liddell, Scott, Jones give: Active: to prevail upon, win over, talk over, 
persuade: in a bad sense, to mislead, over-persuade, cheat. Med. and Passive, to 
be won over, prevailed on, persuaded to comply, etc.
And her children (cognates) are: PISTEUMA, PISTEUTIKOS, PISTEUW, PISTEWS, 
PISTIKOS, PISTIS, PISTOS, PISTOTHS, PISTOW, KTL (and the rest).
I shouldn't say this in the presence of so many experts but the majority of 
times these are used in the NT the translators totally miss the nuances and 
tend to call them all 'faith.'       

Cordially, 
Remington Mandel






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