[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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