[B-Greek] Ephesians 1:22

Alex Poulos apviper at gmail.com
Tue Mar 9 08:24:27 EST 2010


Regarding the discussion of the LXX usage, Jobes and Silva's *Invitation to
the Septuagint* has an interesting discussion on the verbs:
(187-188)

διδωμι (DIDWMI)
τιθημι (TIQHMI)
ποιεω (POIEW)

Basically, they state that there's a large semantic correspondence between
these words and the Hebrew words they translate in the LXX.  They also state
that ποιεω POIEW and διδωμι DIDWMI had encroached upon the meaning of τιθημι
TIQHMI, presumably because of some sort of semantic transference from
Hebrew.  They cite Luke 19:23 and Acts 13:20 as examples, but also offer as
possible instances Ephesians 1:22; 4:11, Revelation 3:8-9; 17:17.

I'm too ignorant of both Greek and Semantics to make a judgment, but it was
interesting to stumble across this passage when the list has been discussing
it here.

Alex Poulos
Student - NC State University



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