[B-Greek] Hosea 1:10
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Dec 11 09:54:06 EST 2004
At 9:24 AM -0500 12/11/04, Timrake at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 12/11/04 12:52:09 AM, lenesen at yahoo.com writes:
>
>
>> For EN TWi TOPWi hOU, Brenton has "in the place
>> where." But I wonder if the meaning is perhaps less
>> physical something like "instead of."
>>
>I thought that's pretty much what the idiom means.
English "in place of ..." and "in-stead of" do in fact mean the same as
French "au lieu de" and German "anstelle von" ..., ; why should EN TOPWi
hOU (where hOU = hOPOU) be so different? In this instance the idioms are
fairly common, at least among European languages.
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Carl W. Conrad
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