[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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