[B-Greek] Luke 3:5: KAI hAI TRACEIAI EIS hODOUS LEIAS

Jonathan Robie jwrobie at mindspring.com
Fri Jun 8 07:56:28 EDT 2007


Luke 3:5 KAI hAI TRACEIAI EIS hODOUS LEIAS
Luke 3:5 καὶ αἱ τραχεῖαι εἰς ὁδοὺς λείας

I assume that TRACEIAI refers to rough roads here, and that the literal 
meaning is something like, "and the rough shall be changed to smooth 
roads", forcing both the Greek and English reader to look to the context 
to figure out that it's talking about rough roads.

I also assume that the meaning would be unchanged if it had said KAI hAI 
TRACEIAI hODOUS EIS hODOUS LEIAS (καὶ αἱ τραχεῖαι εἰς ὁδοὺς λείας).

True? Or am I missing something? Could this also refer to rough 
mountainous terrain, which will be transformed into perfectly smooth 
paved roads?

Jonathanand



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