[B-Greek] EMBRIMAOMAI in John 11:33
Bert de Haan
dehaanaf at gmail.com
Fri Mar 7 18:40:07 EST 2008
Hi Ken, I had a similar question about this word. About a quarter of
the way down this page is the thread "EMBRIMAOMAI."
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2008-February/subject.html#start
Bert de Haan
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Kenneth Litwak <javajedi2 at yahoo.com>
> To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2008 09:03:13 -0800 (PST)
> Subject: [B-Greek] EMBRIMAOMAI in John 11:33
> I have read that EMBRIMAOMAI in John means something
> more like Jesus felt anger or was upset, not that he
> was deeply moved. I was looking last night in various
> lexicons and it appears that the only place this verb
> means something like "be deeply moved" is in John 11.
> Elsewhere it means things like "scorn." It would seem
> to me that translating it as "deeply moved" in John 11
> would then be unjustified. One commentator I read
> suggested that we should render it as "Jesus was
> angry," which relates to Jesus being angry about death
> and what it has done. Is this a plausible
> understanding, or should we in fact give this Greek
> word a novel meaning in John 11? Thanks.
>
> Ken Litwak
>
>
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