[B-Greek] Seismos in Matthew 8:24

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Fri Jan 7 11:45:18 EST 2005


At 11:40 AM 1/7/2005, you wrote:
>As a newcomer to 'B-Greek', I have two questions:
>
>(1) How can I get a NT Greek font (with both breathings, but not 
>necessarily accents, upper-case and lower-case letters, and both 'sigma' 
>forms) for normal use in Word documents, etc.?

I hope this doesn't sound like shameless self promotion but on my website 
(in signature below) there is a whole page of fonts you can download 
covering virtually every aspect of Biblical studies.


>(2) In view of the recent disaster in the Indian Ocean, could the use of 
>the word 'seismos' in Matthew 8:24 refer to the same phenomenon, albeit on 
>a much smaller scale?

"seismos" can mean "storm" or "shaking" as well as earthquake.  BAGD points 
out that the word is in fact used of a "shaking" at sea.

Best
Jim


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