[B-Greek] PROSKUNEW
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Feb 2 15:34:56 EST 2005
At 3:31 PM +0100 2/2/05, AJBIRCH wrote:
>A quick look at the use of PROSKUNEW in the N. T. reveals at least five
>different 'variations': (1) Intransitive; (2) Followed by the dative of
>the object; (3) Followed by the accusative of the object; (4) Followed by
>ENWPION + the genitive; and (5) Followed by EMPROSQEN + the genitive. Are
>these different usages more-or-less synonymous, or might there be
>different shades of meaning - for example, might PROSKUNEW followed by the
>dative be more likely to imply the physical act of prostrating oneself
>before the object of worship?
I may be wrong but I think usage (1) is simply absolute ("worship, do
obeisance") while all the others mean fundamentally the same thing: "do
obeisance before X"--that is to say, I think the dative and the two
prepositions followed by a genitive bear fundamentally the same sense. If
there are valid arguments why they should mean even slightly different
things, I'd like to see them set forth.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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