[B-Greek] EXOMOLOGEO/EXOMOLOGEOMAI
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 15 16:55:10 EDT 2006
On Sep 15, 2006, at 3:43 PM, gabe coia wrote:
> Are EXOMOLOGEOMAI and EXOMOLOGEO actually two distinct words with
> different meanings? Strong's doesn't list EXOMOLOGEOMAI at all,
> but rather lists EXOMOLOGEO. Can anyone explain to me what the
> deal is here?
> Also, do these words consistently carry connotations of
> reverential allegiance in the New Testament?
EXOMOLOGEOMAI is the middle-voice form of EXOMOLOGEW; the middle is
in fact the more common form (9x in the GNT to only 1x the active).
The meanings range, according to BDAG, over (1) to indicate
acceptance of an offer or proposal, promise, consent, (2) to make an
admission of wrong-doing/sin, confess, admit, (3) to declare openly
in acknowledgment, profess, acknowledge, and (4) praise (as a meaning
conflated from "confess" and "profess."
Lexical lists tend -- for no good reason, in my opinion -- to list
the active form of a verb, even if the common form of it is middle.
But at least a good lexicon will indicate the more standard usage.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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