[B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH
Tom Moore
tom at katabiblon.com
Sat Oct 18 13:37:17 EDT 2008
Thanks for the answers. I should have double-checked PNEUMA; I goofed on the gender agreement.
LSJ lists ZWOS (http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/morph.jsp?l=zwos&la=greek). And though Abbot-Smith doesn't list ZWOS directly, it does list ZWGREW (<ZWOS, alive, + AGREUW); ZWOGONEW (< ZWOS, alive, GENESQAI); ZWiON (< ZWOS, alive).
I had wanted to know whether the noun ZWH could mean "alive" rather than "life" in this context since it is standing against NEKROS rather than QANATOS. But if there is a proper way to say "the spirit is alive"--TO PNEUMA ZWON--so that TO PNEUMA ZWH clearly means "the spirit is life", are the few translations that do read "the spirit is alive" (http://bible.cc/romans/8-10.htm) therefore incorrect?
Tom Moore
> -------Original Message-------
> From: Nikolaos Adamou <nikolaos.adamou at hotmail.com>
> Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH
> Sent: Oct 18 '08 14:07
>
> πνεῦμα ζωὴ διὰ δικαιοσύνην
>
> There is not Greek Word as ZWOS.
> There is a Greek Word ZWON but ζώον=annimal.
>
> It is correct
> and there is an agreement
> ζωὴ διὰ δικαιοσύνην
>
> but the spirit is life because of righteousness
>
> πνεῦμα and ζωὴ are in a syntactical agreement, since both are
> in nominative.
> πνεῦμα is ζωοποιόν but not ζώον
>
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> > Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 22:27:18 -0400
> > From: nebarry at verizon.net
> > To: tom at katabiblon.com; b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
> > Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Tom Moore" <tom at katabiblon.com>
> > To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> > Sent: Friday, October 17, 2008 4:15 PM
> > Subject: [B-Greek] Rom 8:10 TO DE PNEUMA ZWH
> >
> >
> > > Romans 8:10: Εἰ δὲ χριστὸς ἐν ὑμῖν, τὸ
> μὲν σῶμα νεκρὸν διὰ ἁμαρτίαν, τὸ δὲ
> > > πνεῦμα ζωὴ διὰ δικαιοσύνην [EI DE CRISTOS
> EN hUMIN, TO MEN SWMA NEKRON DIA
> > > hAMARTIAN, TO DE PNEUMA ZWH DIA DIKAIOSUNHN]
> > >
> > > The body is dead but the spirit is: life (ZWH)? or alive (ZWOS)?
> > >
> > > Neither BDAG nor Abbott-Smith include an entry for ZWOS. By omitting
> ZWOS,
> > > are they excluding it as a possibility for Romans 8:10? Should it be
> > > included as a possibility?
> >
> > To be from the adjective, it would have to be ZWON to agree with the
> neuter
> > singular PNEUMA.
> >
> > N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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