[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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