[B-Greek] Heb 2:3 ARCHN LABOUSA
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 00:58:14 EDT 2008
I would appreciate any help for me to understand this phrase ARCHN
LABOUSA (grammatical analysis and its meaning) in Heb 2:3.
Is ARCH noun accusative used as adverbially?
I cannot find meaning of LABOUSA in most of English translations,
except in an awkward one 'having received a beginning [by] being
spoken by the Lord' (ALT). What about 'was first received as uttered
by the Lord'?
Quoted is the whole verse:
Heb 2:3 πῶς ἡμεῖς ἐκφευξόμεθα τηλικαύτης ἀμελήσαντες σωτηρίασ;
ἥτις, ἀρχὴν λαβοῦσα λαλεῖσθαι διὰ τοῦ Κυρίου,
ὑπὸ τῶν ἀκουσάντων εἰς ἡμᾶς ἐβεβαιώθη,
PWS hHMEIS EKFEUXOMEQA THLIKAUTHS AMELHSANTES SWTHRIAS
hHTIS ARCHN LABOUSA LALEISQAI DIA TOU KURIOU
hUPO TWN AKOUSANTWN EIS hHMAS EBEBAIWQH
Hoping transliteration is made correctly, here is the footnote I found
in the multivolume Alford Vol. IV, p. 29. (Attempted here omits the
source names):
Having begun (ARCHN LABOUSA = ARXAMENH. The phrase is found in the classics:
• TIN' AN LABOIMI TWN EMWN ARCHN KAKWN; …
• POQEN DE THN ARCHN ELABEN hODE hO NOMOS, ERW: …
• TA KATA THN ITALIAN . . . TAS MEN ARCAS TWN POLEMWN TOUTWN IDIAS EILHFEI: …
• LABETW TELOS hH APODECIS TOUTOU FANEROU GENOMENOU: …
• hOTI TECIZETAI TE K. HDH hUYOS LAMBANE ...)
(K. seems an abbreviated word)
This is greek to me without helping hand. Speaking literally and figuratively.
Oun Kwon.
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