[B-Greek] More on AIONIOS

Barry Hofstetter nebarry at verizon.net
Thu Oct 28 08:25:34 EDT 2004


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From: "Steve Puluka" <puluka at verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: [B-Greek] More on AIONIOS


> An English example would be the word bank.  This could be the side of a
> river or an institution where you keep money.  Which is the "basic" meaning?

Good observations, Steve.  Here's an example I use for my students:

The captain can run the ship.

The captain has a run in her stocking.

The crew will run a race around the run on deck 9.

The run for the print shop job was 500 copies.

As you observe, which would be the "basic" meaning?  There is no basic meaning, 
only meaning in context, and some usages which are more frequent than others. 
We have little trouble with this when the vocabulary item in question is current 
in our native language, but it's a bit more difficult when the language and its 
context are removed by a couple of millenia or so!

N.E. Barry Hofstetter
Adjunct Faculty, The Center for Urban Theological Studies
         Philadelphia, PA
http://www.cuts.edu
Adjunct Faculty, Reformed Theological Seminary
         Washington, D.C.
http://www.rts.edu/campuses/washington_dc/index.cfm

And me:
http://mysite.verizon.net/nebarry/

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