[B-Greek] Definition of crasis

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Dec 27 16:14:57 EST 2006


APO + STELLW ?  No.  

Crasis is the joining of two words to form a new series of letters in which some of the original letters are dropped.  An example of this would be the conjunction of KAI + EGW to form KAGW (Mt 2.8; 10.32, 33; 11.28 . . .).  Another is KAI + EAN to form KAN (Mt 21.21; 26.35; Mk 5.28 . . .).  Yet another is KAKEINOS from KAI + EKEINOS (Lk 11.7; 22.12; Jn 6.57; 7.29 . . .).  I think by now you will have gotten the idea.
 
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Marion Fox <mrfox1 at gmail.com>
To: Biblical Greek list <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 27, 2006 3:40:37 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Definition of crasis


I have seen the word "crasis" in several books and did not see a definition
of this word. From the context it seems to me that it either refers to the
joining of two words into one word or to the blending of some letters into
a dipthong. For example, in English we join the words "every" and "one" to
make one word "everyone."

I looked this word up in my dictionaries and the only definition I could
find was: "... gram. a figure by which two different letters are contracted
into one long letter or into a diphthong: called also Synae-resis."

Is the term "crasis" also used for the joining of two words such as: APO and
STELLW into APOSTELLW?


Yours in His service,


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Marion Fox

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