[B-Greek] Greek Lexicon 1st century Eng-Greek

Randall Buth ybitan at mscc.huji.ac.il
Sat Sep 2 15:04:13 EDT 2006


 > A back-engineered access
 > to the english glosses of BDAG would be downright dangerous for
 > students if they thought that they were seeing a picture of the
 > options available.

kline egrapse
How do you know than an option was available to an author if he did
not use the word?

apokrisis mikra:
by first century attestation patterns, compiled over a corpus of  
several million words.

for an English example, if you were to write that something was  
"extravagant" I would assume that you know the words "excessive" and  
"abundant" and chose not to use them. I would not check a vocab  
printout of the NRSV NT to define whether any of the above three  
words were available. I guess I expect that most words in the first  
15,000-20,000 most frequent words of a language are fair game, with  
the caveat, of course, that the words are being used for something  
that is part of common knowledge.

does this help?
ERRWSO
(the form ERRWSO is not in the NT, but I assume that everyone would  
know it, at least anyone who ever received a letter.)
Randall Buth




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