[B-Greek] Words for "Command" in 1 Timothy

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Aug 27 05:43:48 EDT 2007


On Aug 27, 2007, at 4:12 AM, Charles Clayton wrote:

> I was just reading 1 Timothy and noticed several different words  
> that have
> the idea of command.  I spent some time looking at BDAG and LN but  
> I was not
> able to determine if there was any significant difference between  
> the words.
> So my question would be did Paul intended for us to see a different
> connotation or meaning in these three words?
>
> EPITAGHN (1:1)
> PARAGGELIAN (1:18)
> ENTOLHN (6:14)

The words in question are not really in immediately adjacent  
contexts. My guess is that they are (very) roughly equivalent to  
English "order" (EPITAGHN),"direction, instruction" (PARAGGELIAN),  
and "charge" (ENTOLHN). I doubt that there's any significant  
difference intended in these word-choices.

> PS - I used Zhubert's translit option - so I hope it worked out  
> properly.

Worked out fine.

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Ret)



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