[B-Greek] Etymology of QEOPNEUSTOS in 2 Timothy 3:16

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Tue Jul 28 01:08:10 EDT 2009


"Match" could very well be correct in his observation regarding the passage in the Illiad.  I think, however, that an etymology is not really what you need.  What you need is to know the usage of the word.  It appears to first appear in the first couple of centuries AD and may have been first used in the NT as a unit.  Other usages might have derived from the NT use.  BDAG and LSJ cite secular usages of the term, but it is in Moulton & Milligan where we find a quotation from the Sylloge Inscritionum Graecarum

Syll55212(ii/b.c.) opens a decree in connexion with the Parthenon at Magnesia with the words θείας ἐπιπνοίας καὶ παραστάσεως γενομένης τῶι σύνπαντι πλήθει τοῦ πολιτεύματος εἰς τὴν ἀποκατάστασιν τοῦ ναοῦ EPIPNOIAS KAI PARASTASEWS GENOMENHS TWi SUNPANTI PLHQEI TOU POLITEUMATOS EIS THN APOKATASTASIN TOU NAOU—a divine “inspiration and desire” which has impelled the people to arise and build to the glory of Artemis. 
 
Moulton, J. H., & Milligan, G. (1930). The vocabulary of the Greek Testament. Issued also in eight parts, 1914-1929. (287). London: Hodder and Stoughton.
 
ON the other hand, perhaps it really doesn't originate with the NT but is rather a sort of "buzz-word" current at the time.
 george
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From: Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com>
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--- On Mon, 7/27/09, Leonard Jayawardena <leonardj at live.com> wrote:


<I am looking for the full etymology of QEOPNEUSTOS.
 I know that it is ultimately derived from QEOS and PNEW
 with the TOS ending added.  I would greatly appreciate a step by step explanation of the formation of this word from the basic elements.>
 
Iliad 19:159  ευτʼ αν...εν δε θεος πνευσῃ μενος αμφοτεροισιν
                   EUTE AN...EN DE QEOS PNEUSHi MENOS AMFOTEROISIN
 
                  When...a god breathes might into both (armies..)
 
This is the first step...
 
Mark L 
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