hHGEOMAI - 'esteem' without attributive

Roe d.roe at t-online.de
Fri Jun 2 09:52:49 EDT 2000




Betraying my novitiate, I had written:

> >Did hHGEOMAI without an attributive word added ever ... have the 
> > meaning "to esteem" ...


Carl responded:

> I don't think "esteem" as such is quite right for the sense--except in the
> sense of "deem" or "judge" and I don't think I'd call its modifying word an
> attributive so much as a predicate word; in this usage hHGEISQAI generally
> takes a direct object and a predicate accusative: "to deem X to be Y"--so
> here, Phil 2:3 "deeming each other (to be) better than yourselves."


I don't find any examples where hHGEOMAI is used without a predicate or
other modifying word, could mean "esteem" except *possibly* occurences
like

Heb. 13:7   MNHMONEUETE TWN hHGOUMENWN hUMWN...

"Remember those who led you,..."  or  "...who are (or were) esteemed by
you..."?


But without a predicate or other modifying word, it seems that this
would make no more sense than:

"Remember those who were thought by you..."

"Remember those who were deemed by you..."


Thanks again, and have a great weekend! (even those retired...! ;) 

Esteems,

David 

D. W. Roe
Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany



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