[B-Greek] KHFAS is it Greek?

Bob Firth r.firth at ridley.unimelb.edu.au
Wed Aug 24 10:57:24 EDT 2005


Richard Richmond wrote:

>I have been told that KHFAS is not really a Greek word
>but an Aramaicism. Yet I find it in Liddell-Scott and
>it appears in two letters 1Cor and GaL (4 times in
>each) written to Greek speaking congregations who
>presumably would have known its Greek meaning. Can
>anyone shed any light on this issue?
>  
>
KHFAS is a Greek transliteration of the Aramaic, meaning rock. Greek 
speaking audiences would have recognised it for what it was - Peter's name.

What did Liddell-Scott tell you about it? BDAG essentially says what I 
have already told you.

Bob Firth



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