[B-Greek] Justify- Diakioun
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Mon May 10 17:14:13 EDT 2010
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From: "Tony Pope" <borikayaama_tekiri at sil.org>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Justify- Diakioun
>A more limited claim has been made elsewhere, e.g.,
>
> "A very important variety of the factitive meaning is found in a group of
> verbs in -OW, derived from
> adjectives of _moral_ as distinguished from _physical_ meaning. Here the
> meaning is _to regard as,
> to treat as_, not _to make_. Thus AXIOW (see Lightfoot _Notes on Epp.
> 105__), DIKAIOW (see Evans ap.
> 1 Co 6.11 cited by S[anday] and Headlam] _Romans_ 30)."
> J H Moulton & W F Howard, A Grammar of New Testament Greek, 1928, 2:397.
>
> This must have been what Barclay meant.
Very helpful, this is almost certainly where Barclay got his factoid,
thanks. Most of the translations get at this by simply rendering "justify"
or "acquit" or "declare righteous" or some such. It's not imparting the
quality but recognizing it. I also thought of θανατόω, QANATOW, which can
mean either "put to death" or "condemn to death." What I'm questioning is
not so much the meaning of δικαιόω, DIKAIOW, as to whether it's all omicron
contracts derived from roots referring to quality which have this sense. I
think it depends on the usage of each individual word rather than some
general principle. But I certainly don't have time to prove it... :)
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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