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What's unusual about John 19 is that we have so many occurrences of the word within such a short proximity. I'm wondering if people at the time really would have even noticed this? I seem to recall one or two other instances where alternate forms are used in close proximity, but I can't for the life of me right now remember where...
Checking the LXX, the forms ανεωξεν and ηνεωξεν are used very rarely outside of Genesis (variant readings aside on this, btw), or indeed, all that much in Genesis:
ανεωξεν: Gen 21:19, 30:22, 41:56; 2 Chron 29:3; Ps 77:23
ηνεωξεν: Gen 8:6; 3 Macc 6:18
ηνοιξεν appears to be the more "popular" form (including in GJohn, if we take the NA28 text), appearing 22 times: Gen 29:31; Num 22:28; Judg 4:19 (x2), 15:19, 19:27 (x2); 1 Sam 3:15; 2 Kings 4:35, 9:10; 2 Kings 13:17; Neh 8:5; Tob 11:16; 1 Macc 3:28; Job 3:1; Wis of Sol 10:21; Isa 37:14; Jer 27:25; Ezek 33:22; Sus 1:25; Dan 6:11
Should also note that outside of GJohn (variant readings aside - I haven't checked), ανεωξεν and ηνεωξεν don't appear in any other NT book. ηνοιξεν appears in 2 others (Acts 9:40, 12:14, 14:27; Rev 6:1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 12, 8:1, 9:2, 12:16, 13:6).
The only way to answer this question, really, would be to check other Greek literature of the time to see whether anyone else used the different spellings ανεωξεν/ηνεωξεν/ηνοιξεν, and which one was used the most.
Judging on the usage in both the LXX and NT, I would presume that the readers of GJohn would have noticed the different usages of ανεωξεν/ηνεωξεν, compared to the more popular ηνοιξεν.
Barry Hofstetter wrote:What's unusual about John 19 is that we have so many occurrences of the word within such a short proximity. I'm wondering if people at the time really would have even noticed this? I seem to recall one or two other instances where alternate forms are used in close proximity, but I can't for the life of me right now remember where...
Is it "σκοτια" = "σκοτος"? They occur in close proximity in:
Luke 11:53, 12:3
1 John 1:5,6, 2:11