[B-Greek] Fwd: Romans 16:1

nikolaos kadamou ntgreekreader at gmail.com
Tue Dec 14 20:53:50 EST 2010


Mark, Θεὸς/θεὰ
in everything else you are right

On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Mark Lightman <lightmanmark at yahoo.com> wrote:
> <Certain nouns in Greek are "epicene" (or "common") in that their form
> is the same for both masculine and feminine but their gender depends
> on whom the noun is referring to.  DIAKONOS (aide) is one of them.
> PARQENOS (virgin) is another.>
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> θεος (QEOS) is another one.  Even ανθρωπος (ANQRWPOS.)
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> (Hi, Stephen)
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>  Mark L
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> FWSFOROS MARKOS
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> From: Stephen Carlson <stemmatic at gmail.com>
> To: Biblical Greek Mailing List <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Sent: Mon, December 13, 2010 5:46:44 PM
> Subject: [B-Greek] Fwd:  Romans 16:1
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> On Mon, Dec 13, 2010 at 5:31 PM, Dony K. Donev <dony at cupandcross.com> wrote:
>> I've been wandering recently, about the use of the word "deacon" (noun masc.
>> sing.) in Romans 16:1-2
>> in reference to Phoebe who was a woman. How common of usage that was in the
>> Biblical Greek language?
>> Does it stand out as wrong or was it commonly applied that way?
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> Certain nouns in Greek are "epicene" (or "common") in that their form
> is the same for both masculine and feminine but their gender depends
> on whom the noun is referring to.  DIAKONOS (aide) is one of them.
> PARQENOS (virgin) is another.
>
> Stephen
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> Stephen C. Carlson
> Graduate Program in Religion
> Duke University
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