[B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question

A. Philip Brown II pbrown at GBS.EDU
Fri Jul 2 07:59:42 EDT 2004


Thanks, Carl.

Of course, I'm aware of crasis, but had never seen it with an article and a
noun. Does this happen anywhere in the NT?

Philip Brown

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> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:06 PM
> To: A. Philip Brown II
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> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question
>
>
> At 8:00 PM -0400 7/1/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
> >Sorry to ask this here, but I couldn't figure out this word in Philo:
> >TOUPIKRANON
> >
> >The sentence reads in part (from Loeb): O DE hIEREUS LABWN PROTEINETW TH
> >GUNAIKI KAI TOUPIKRANON AFELWN, hIN' EPIKRINHTAI GEGUMNWMENH TH
> KEFALH ...
> >F. H. Colson's translation: The priest taking the offering hands
> it to the
> >woman and removes her kerchief, in order than she may be judged with her
> >head bared ...
> >
> >Obviously, he is translating TOUPIKRANON as 'kerchief,' but I
> can't find the
> >word in LSJ. There is a smooth breathing mark over the U,
> suggesting to me
> >the possibility of a contraction, but that's all the farther I could get.
> >
> >Any help on the lexical form of this word would be appreciated.
>
> This is an instance of crasis: TOUPIKRANON = TO EPIKRANON, which LSJ
> defines as "that which is put on the head, head-dress, cap"--and one can
> readily recognize the elements of the compouns as EPI- and KERA/KRA from
> KERAS 'head.' In crasis the final vowel of the first word fuses/mixes with
> the initial vowel of the second word, usually resulting in a vowel or
> diphthong comparable to that of ordinary contractions, so that O
> + E --> OU.
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>
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