[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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