[B-Greek] GENNAW
Barbara D. Colt
babc2 at comcast.net
Fri May 27 12:12:17 EDT 2005
On 27 May 2005 at 10:37, George F Somsel wrote:
> On Fri, 27 May 2005 07:09:05 -0700 william zeitler
> <william at faithfulbible.com> writes:
> > > They are simply the same word- one now obsolete in English and the
> > other
> > > not.
> >
> > Hmm... are they REALLY "the same word"?
> >
> > 'Beget': to father or sire.
> > 'Birth': a. The emergence and separation of offspring from the body
> > of the
> > mother.
> > Is it arbitrary, or is their some exegetical basis for preferring
> > 'born' (female) over 'begotten' (male)? (Or 'to sire' or 'to father' if
> > you prefer.)
> >
Note that the female activity is bear, bore, borne. It is the baby, of
either sex, who is born.Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc2 at comcast.net
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