[B-Greek] KOSMOS

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Fri Sep 1 12:03:29 EDT 2006


I think the treatment of KOSMOS in BDAG adequately illustrates the  
problems that one would incur trying to produce a reversed version of  
BDAG (English-Greek). It isn't just a matter of indexing  
independently the bolded English glosses, which I would suspect has  
probably already been done. If you build your lexicon around well  
nuanced English definitions rather than glosses, then the design of  
your lexicon is going to be an interesting problem.

Elizabeth Kline

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad2 at mac.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2006 9:17 AM
> To: Wounded Ego
> Cc: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] KOSMOS
>
>
> E.g., here's BDAG's entry on KOSMOS -- just a listing of headings
> and sub-headings, without the examples cited for each usage:
>
> KOSMOS, OU, hO (Hom.+)
>   1. that which serves to beautify through decoration, adornment,  
> adorning
>   2. condition of orderliness, orderly arrangement, order
>   3. the sum total of everything here and now, the world, the  
> (orderly)
> universe, in philosophical usage
>   4. the sum total of all beings above the level of the animals,  
> the world
>   5. planet earth as a place of inhabitation, the world
>     a. generally
>     b. the world as the habitation of humanity
>     c. earth, world in contrast to heaven
>    6. humanity in general, the world
>     a. generally
>     b. of all humanity, but especially of believers, as the object of
> God?s love
>    7. the system of human existence in its many aspects, the world
>     a. as scene of earthly joys, possessions, cares, sufferings
>     b. the world, and everything that belongs to it, appears as that
> which is hostile to God, i.e. lost in sin, wholly at odds w. anything
> divine, ruined and depraved
>    8. collective aspect of an entity, totality, sum total









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