[B-Greek] σύν SUN: opposite meanings

Randall Buth randallbuth at gmail.com
Tue Apr 26 05:15:26 EDT 2011


>My question is, what are the contextual clues that indicate whether SUN
> means "including" or  "excluding?">

The problem is looking too much at the English text and not
enough at the Greek.
The first contextual clue is SYN. It groups "with" and includes
and does not mean 'excludes'. The SYN would need to group
something with the 'outgroup' in order to "exclude".

See Luk 20.1 and Gal 5.24, the examples that LSJM give.

Randall Buth


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