[B-Greek] EN hWi - "where"? (Col. 1:14)

Elliot Poe Elliot.Poe at gmail.com
Tue Dec 19 15:33:17 EST 2006


Usually EN hWi, when it suggests a Wh- word, means "while" (Smyth 
1687b).  I believe that EN hWi is translated "while" when EN hWi is used 
for EN CRONWi hWi ("in the time which," i.e. "when").  The problem with 
EN hWi meaning "where" is that hWi would need to take the place of a 
masculine noun for "place"; most common nouns for place are feminine (at 
least that I can think of right now).  For the passage at hand, I would 
prefer "in whom."

Yours,
Elliot Poe



Webb wrote:

>Col. 1:13-14:
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> 
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>hOS ERRUSATO hHMAS EK THS EXOUSIAS TOU SKOTOUS KAI METESTHSEN EIS THN
>BASILEIAN TOU hUIOU THS AGAPHS AUTOU EN hWi ECOMEN THN APOLUTRWSIN THN
>AFESIN TWN hAMARTIWN 
>
> 
>
>Lattimore's translation of EN hWi confuses me: 
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> 
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>It was he who rescued us from the power of darkness, and removed us to the
>Kingdom of the son of his love, where we find our redemption, the remission
>of sins.
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>Surely EN hWi can't resume hH BASILEIA. So is there some typical way in
>which EN hWi suggests general the idea of "where"?
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>
>Webb Mealy
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