[B-Greek] YUKHN in Rev. 12:11
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Thu Jan 4 05:41:58 EST 2007
I think you missed the blind spot! (-; The reason your google-search couldn't bring up anything is because the word in question is YUCH (George and a couple others would spell it YUXH -- but in any case the word is spelled with a Chi, not a Kappa.
If you check the entry in LSJ for YUCH (at http://tinyurl.com/y37wct), you'll see immediately that the primary sense of the word has been "life" ever since Homer, although it also is used for "departed spirit, ghost," "immaterial and immortal soul," "conscious self or personality," etc., etc. There is nothing exceptional about the word's usage in Rev 12:11.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (ret)
On Wednesday, January 03, 2007, at 08:11PM, "shoes6 at juno.com" <shoes6 at juno.com> wrote:
>Greetings!
>Revelation 12:11 reads, in part:
>KAI OUK HGAPHSAN THN YUKHN AUTWN ACRI QANATOU
>which is often translated "and they did not love their lives even to death", or similar.
>My question is on the word YUKHN, which is more commonly translated "soul".
>Greek already has at least two other words for life (BIOS and ZWH, and maybe more that I don't know), so the use of an oblique choice of words brings up some questions.
>Is this passage adequately rendered as shown above? Is there a meaning I'm missing, relating to the meaning "soul"? I'm trying to figure out why the writer used that word.
>I googled the archives and found nothing on this question.
>Thank you!
>Ted Shoemaker
>
>What blind spot? I don't see any blind spot!
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