[B-Greek] AFISTAMAI or AFISTHMI

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Sun Mar 28 08:02:22 EST 2004


I've run across AFISTHMI several times in Culy/Parsons
Acts but the UBS dictionary seems to relate it to
AFISTAMAI. Is there any difference between these two?

Also, I've been led to believe that AFISTAMAI denoted
a religious or military apostasy, while Luke is
comfortable using AFISTHMI as a simple "left" or
"departed" without any such implication in some
passages. I'm inclined to see AFISTHMI as a verb
denoting "departing" regardless of which context it is
used in, or to ask it another way, does this word
denote a certain kind of departure?


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Eddie Mishoe
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