[B-Greek] Fear of fear - 1Pe 3:6
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sun May 2 01:01:56 EDT 2010
Thank Carl.
That helps lot.
I am a little disappointed by the lack of depth treatment by BDAG on
this word of NT hapax.
Oun Kwon.
On Fri, Apr 30, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Carl Conrad <cwconrad2 at mac.com> wrote:
> On Apr 30, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:
>> 1Pe 3:6b
>>
>> hHS EGENHQHTE TEKNA AGAQOPOIOUSAI
>> KAI MH FOBOUMENAI MHDEMIAN PTOHSIN
>>
>> It is hard to see what the phrase μὴ φοβούμεναι μηδεμίαν πτόησιν is
>> trying to tell. (BDAG p. 895 PTOHSIS gives several glosses -
>> 'terrifying' 'intimidation' 'fear' 'terror'.)
>> Most English translations do not help much, while some do smooth it over.
>>
>> Is it possible understand this phrase something like 'fear of fear'?
>
> I don't find it in BDAG but I do find "flutter" in LSJ for the verb PTOEW, which appears to be a denominative verb from the root PET/POT/PT whence we derive PIPTW (fall), PETAMAI (fly), PTWSIS (grammatical "case" from "falling", PTWMA (corpse), etc. I think that PTOHSIS really means the "quivering" or "shudder" that is a physical manifestation of fear. That being the case, I would understand MHDEMIAN PTOHSIN not as an object or complement of FOBOUMENOI but rather as an adverbial accusative: "and not being afraid even so much as a shiver" or we might say, "not even so much as a frisson."
>
> Carl W. Conrad
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