[B-Greek] Patmos = "my killing" ?

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Mon Oct 24 14:11:56 EDT 2005


On Mon, 24 Oct 2005 11:58:09 -0500 "Dan Gleason" <dan-bgreek at hotmail.com>
writes:
> The KJV New Testament Greek Lexicon (crosswalk.com) defines "Patmos" 
> as a 
> word meaning "my killing."  I did a web search to find the etymology 
> of this 
> word and can not find how the name or word "patmos" has anything to 
> do with 
> "killing." What are the greek root words that support this English 
> translation?
> 
> Dan Gleason
> 
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I think generally that etymological studies are not worth engaging in,
but this was strange enough to be interesting even though it probably is
outside the list guidelines.  I therefore checked your presentation and
discovered that you did indeed properly represent the content of the
entry.  If you consider the entry as a whole, it should be obvious that
the value of such an etymological derivation approaches 0 (zero).  How
can a word be said to be of "uncertain derivation" and yet have a very
specific meaining?

george
gfsomsel
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