[B-Greek] ENERGYHS in Hebrews 4:12
Aidan Roseberry
paleryder at mchsi.com
Tue Nov 9 23:27:46 EST 2004
Thank you. I was having some difficulty parsing ENERGHS. I didn't find a lot
of examples in the NT and none in the Septuagint, except for one instance of
ENERGOS. Additionally, my lexicon doesn't tell me much. It's lexical form
was just the word itself followed by ES showing its gentive form- no
article, nothing but a note that said it was a late form of the word
ENERGOS. I'm not sure how this noun is declined.
ENERGHS/ ENERGEIA/ENERGEIN don't appear much at all in the OT. I think I
found ENERGEIA a half-dozen times and only in the deuterocanonical texts. I
found ENERGEIN once each in Numbers, Proverbs, I Esdras and Isaiah, with
several appearances in the deutero-canonical texts . However, these (and
related) words appear a great deal in the NT, I think over thirty times or
more. Are these words in the NT replacing some other words previously used
in the septuagint, or does the NT just emphasize actualized energy to a much
greater degree than the OT? Thanks again.
Aidan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barry Hofstetter" <nebarry at verizon.net>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 9:48 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] ENERGYHS in Hebrews 4:12
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Aidan Roseberry" <paleryder at mchsi.com>
> To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 10:39 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] ENERGYHS in Hebrews 4:12
>
>
> >>In Hebrews 4:12, ENERGYHS is commonly translated as an adjective. I've
had a
> >>little trouble understanding ENERGYHS in this context; it's just sort of
"out
> >>there" by itself. Isn't it possible that ENERGYHS is actually meant as a
noun
> >>in this context? This might provide a translation like this:
>
> "For the living Logos of God, and [the living] Energy(ies), also sharper
than a
> two edged sword, passing through, dividing both soul and spirit, joints
from
> marrows, judging the thought and intents of the heart". <<
>
> Highly unlikely. When an adjective is the same number, gender, and case
as a
> noun with which it's in close proximity, the extreme prejudice is to take
it as
> modifying that noun, and such is the case here. Now, if the text read hO
> ENERGHS, then you might have a case, but it doesn't.
>
> You may be parsing ENERGHS incorrectly: it is a masculine, nominative
singular
> adjective modifying LOGOS. It is certainly not "just sort of out there"
but is
> well integrated into the context. Another mistake: you translate ZWN as
an
> attributive, but is is actually a predicate participle.
>
> N.E. Barry Hofstetter
> Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Urban Theological Studies
> Philadelphia, PA
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> Adjunct Faculty, Reformed Theological Seminary
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>
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