[B-Greek] A Question on 1 Timothy 2:6 and the meaning of, ANTILUTR ON ?
Awohili at aol.com
Awohili at aol.com
Mon Nov 6 20:31:49 EST 2006
My apologies for not noting that the last revision date for LSJ was 1940.
However, the exact same point is made by BDAG (3rd edition, 2000) for ANTI:
"Orig. mng. local, 'opposite,' then of various types of correspondence ranging
from replacement to equivalence. A marker (1) indicating that one person or
thing is, or is to be, replaced by another.....(2) indicating that one thing
is equiv. to another " (pp.87, 88)
That defining a word by its constituent parts "often" does not add up does
not mean that it never does, or that this method is necessarily flawed.
Particularly if the definition makes sense as weighed by context or by the rest of
the NT.
Solomon Landers
>In a message dated 11/06/2006 Barry Hofstetter wrote:
When citing a reference such as LSJ, you normally use the last actual
revision date rather
than the latest printing date.
Secondly, it's normally a flawed methodology to try to build the
meaning of the word from
its compound elements in Greek. They often don't "add up," and this
is
especially the case in Hellenistic Greek, with the tendency to use
compound where in Attic
the simplex form was used. The actual usage can only be determined
from seeing the word
in its several contexts.......................
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