[B-Greek] PARARREW's root word (in Hebrews 2:1)?
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Sun Feb 3 03:43:00 EST 2008
To all:
I have a question about cognates and how to decide their connection to root
words.
Heb. 2:1
DIA TOUTO DEI PERISSOTERWS PROSECEIN hMAS TOIS *AKOUSQEISIN* MHPOTE *
PARARUWMEN*.
("For this reason, it is much more necessary for us to pay attention to the
things that were heard lest we drift away.")
Since this injunction is for us to pay attention to what was *heard* (and
thus what was *said*), is there any significance that this particular word
(PARARREW) was chosen for "drift away" (from what was said and heard)? Is
PARARREW's connection to its root word (REW), which means "flow" in the
active but apparantly "say" in the passive, merely tangential, or is it
significant? Or is there even a connection between "say" and and PARARREW?
Trenchard lists the aorist passive of LEGW as ERREQHN, but he shows PARARREW
and REW as cognates (pg. 97), and I have seen at least one software program
(Tony Fisher's Web site) state that the root of ERREQH (passive voice, "it
was said") is REW ("I flow" in the active but apparently "I say" in the
passive). Arggh!
The fact that PARARREW is a hapax in the NT doesn't help ... but if the
word, indeed does mean "say" in the passive, this word choice is even more
powerful for the warning that was given!
--
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
More information about the B-Greek
mailing list