[B-Greek] Matt 1:20 to gennethen: Beget or conceive?

Bryant J. Williams III bjwvmw at com-pair.net
Fri Dec 15 13:25:17 EST 2006


Dear Anthony,

BDAG, 2nd Edition, page 155, 2nd column, top of page, translates MT 1:20,
"TO EN AUTHi GENNHQEN EK PNEUMATOS ESTIN that which is conceived in her is
of the Spirit Mt 1:20 (TO GENNHQEN of that which is yet unborn: Diod. S. 17,
77, 3).

NIDNTT, Colin Brown, Volume 1, pp. 176-179, article, "Birth," by A.
Ringwald, states the following regarding the use of GENNAO,
    "CL GENNAO is a causal form of GINOMAI (Liddell-Scott, 344).Cf. the
back-formation GENNA, origin race, birth. It belongs to the same root GEN-
which appears in various Lat. words like GENUS (race), Old High German KIND,
(child) and various derivatives via Lat. such as pregnant, malignant (cf.
Lat. (G)NASCOR, to be born; NATUS, born, birth; NATURA, birth, nature;
NAEVUS,  birth mark, mole).
    Like>TIKTO and TEKNOO, GENNAO IS USED OF BEGETTING by the father and
bearing by the mother as in the Heb. equivalents, the LXX, and the NT. The
is certainly the case in later Gk. literature (Apollodorus, Lucian,
Plutarch). In the secular world of the NT times GENNAO has the meaning of
"come into being" as well as "produce" in a metaphorical or vague general
senses (cf. 2 Tim. 2:23 of quarrels; Gal. 4:24 of the covenants). (p. 176)

"The actual meaning of GENNAO must be determined by the context in both its
active and passive forms, as it is used of both of the father and the mother
as in cl. Gk. (cf. Matt. 1:3, 5f.; 2:1, 4; 19:12; Lk. 1:13; Jn 9:34; 16:21;
Gal. 4:23). It is, however, used in a fig. or extended sense as follows:
..." (p. 178).

En Xristwi,

Rev. Bryant J. Williams III

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Anthony Buzzard" <anthonybuzzard at mindspring.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Matt 1:20 to gennethen: Beget or conceive?


> In Matt. 1:20 TO GENNETHEN is rendered generally as "what is conceived in
her"
> Can anyone comment on that translation? Is not GENNAO really a
> begetting here, the action of the father?  Is GENNAO elsewhere ever
> translated "conceive"?
> Anthony Buzzard
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