[B-Greek] EXOMOLOGEO/EXOMOLOGEOMAI

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Sep 15 17:23:31 EDT 2006


On Sep 15, 2006, at 4:55 PM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>
> 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.

As a follow-up to the above response, I checked EXOMOLOGEOMAI in the  
LXX:
there are 121 instances, every one of them middle.  I think that the  
one instance of
an active EXWMOLOGHSEN in the GNT (Lk 22:6) is a fluke, perhaps based on
usage of the simlex hOMOLOGEW, which DOES regularly appear in the  
active.


Carl W. Conrad
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