[B-Greek] anq wn = since

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Sat Apr 9 12:37:32 EDT 2011


As with most words in any language, there is not ONE equivalent word in another 
language else we would be able to simply program our computers to do a little 
substitution for us and have a translation of any writing -- wait, that's been 
tried.  Have you ever checked a machine translation of some documents on the 
internet?  They can be quite humorous and even meaningless.  This is no doubt 
due to the phenomenon I mentioned first that there is no one equivalent for a 
particular word in any language.  
 
In the case of ἀνθʼ ὧν ANQ' hWN which you raise, there are a number of uses 
for ἁ̓ντί ANTI which you would be well advised to examine.  <Rant>In fact, I 
would recommend that you sell your first-born child and buy a copy of BDAG 
(Bauer, Arndt, Gingrich and Danker _A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament 
and Other Early Christian Literature_).  ACCEPT NO SUBSTITUTE for there is no 
substitute.</rant>  BDAG lists five main uses of ἀντί ANTI (Examples are taken 
from BDAG):
	1. Replacement by another = "instead of" or "in place of".  See Mt 2.22
	2. Equivalence to another = "in place of".  Mt 5.38
	3. Intervention = "on behalf of".  See Mt 17.27
	4. Reason for something = "because of" or "for the purpose of".  See Eph 5.31
	5. Result = "wherefore" or "therefore".  See Lk 12.3
Context will determine the usage.

 george
gfsomsel 


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Subject: [B-Greek] anq wn = since

Dear all,

Does "anq wn" mean "since"? I thought "anti" is a preposition, but there
does not seem to be any English "equivalent" for "anq" in this phrase, is
there? It occurs in Luke 1:20, Luke 12:3, Luke 19:44, Acts 12:23 and 2 Thes
2:10. Is "anti toutou" in Eph 5:31 also similar? Does it mean "because of
this:" ("this" referring to what comes next)?

Thanks!
David Lim
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