[B-Greek] KOPANIZON
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Jul 16 09:43:47 EDT 2007
On Jul 16, 2007, at 9:13 AM, Litteral John wrote:
> I have run onto a word that I am unsure about. It is found in Daniel
> 7:7 of the Old Greek LXX, not Theodotian. Here is some of the passage
> to put it into context. My translation would roughly be,
> "surpassing in
> strength. It had great iron teeth, eating and ????" Would it best be
> translated "pounding" or "thrashing?" Thanks! John Litteral
> John.Litteral at ashland.kyschools.us
>
> uperferwn iscui econ odontaV sidhrouV megalouV esqion kai kopanizon
John, please don't try to scissors-and paste a Greek text into a
message unless you are sure that it is in Unicode (UTF-8) plain-text.
And even if you do put it into you message as Unicode Greek, you must
follow the B-Greek protocol and use the regular B-Greek
transliteration scheme that is explained within the BG-FAQ page at
http://ibiblio.org/bgreek/bgtransliteration.html
The phrase you're concerned with is evidently κοπανίζον
KOPANIZON; LEH offers "grind, pound" as a sense for KOPANIZW; it
looks like this is an extended form of KOPTW (root KOP) meaning
"hit," "pound," "chop."
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
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