[B-Greek] PAROINOS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Sep 12 06:14:58 EDT 2006


On Sep 12, 2006, at 1:41 AM, Robert Easter wrote:

> If you'll allow a less /scholarly,/ but surely no less /controversial/
> question:  Does the term translated, "Given to wine" strictly mean one
> who does, in fact, drink wine, or one who must have wine and, if the
> latter, what might be the intention for the difference from (1 Tim.  
> 3.8,
> Tit.2.3) "given to much wine?"

(I've changed the header to indicate more directly what the question is)

I trust that the appropriate references -- which should have been  
consulted in the first place -- will resolve any doubts (i.e. unless  
someone can show that BDAG and L&N are in error in their entries on  
this word):

BDAG: "PAROINOS is used of people in all these exx.:  pert. to one  
who is given to drinking too much wine, addicted to wine, drunken"
L&N: "88.288 MEQUSOS, OUυ m; OINOPOTHS, OU m; PAROINOS, ου m: a  
person who habitually drinks too much and thus becomes a drunkard  
— ‘drunkard, heavy drinker.’


Carl W. Conrad
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