[B-Greek] BDAG - EPITIMAW

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Jul 27 15:55:42 EDT 2008


On Jul 27, 2008, at 2:16 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:

> EPITIMAW
>
>
> I am briefly quoting from BDAG p. 384 (underlining is mine)
>
>
> (1) *to express strong disapproval of someone, rebuke, reprove,  
> censure **
> also speak seriously, warn in order to prevent an action or brig one  
> to an
> end** *
>
> (2*) punish*
>
>
> I believe BDAG should have separted out the part underlined ( *also  
> speak
> seriously, warn in order to prevent an action or brig one to an  
> end** *) and
> lists examples (e.g. Lk 9:21) separated. 'Rebuke" and 'Warn' are  
> different
> enough to deserve to be treated separately.

You may be thinking more in terms of the way English differentiates  
these notions. My sense is that the fundamental sense of the Greek is  
something like "speak judgmentally" -- a notion that is broader than  
these various senses expressed in sensse (1) and also includes sense  
(2).

L&N have:
33.331 ἐπιτιμάω EPITIMAW b: to command, with the implication  
of a threat — ‘to command.’
and
33.419 ἐπιτιμάω EPITIMAW  a: to express strong disapproval of  
someone — ‘to rebuke, to denounce.’


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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