[B-Greek] Bloody Sweat

Alexander Ring akring at mac.com
Wed Mar 23 17:49:18 EDT 2011


Lk 22:44
καὶ ἐγένετο ὁ ἱδρὼς αὐτοῦ ὡσεὶ θρόμβοι αἵματος 

KAI EGENETO O hIDRWS AUTOU hWSEI QROMBOI AIMATOS

Every year this bothers me, but I don't think I've ever posted a question about it here.

I always understood this verse to say, "And his sweat became like large drops of blood"; where hWSEI means something like "could be compared to", not "turned into". Yet every Lent we hear about the "bloody sweat".

So what is the natural meaning of hWSEI here? 

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