From: Daniel Ria–o (danielrr@mad.servicom.es)
Date: Tue Dec 23 1997 - 04:09:14 EST
Williams, Wes wrote:
>When does a BREFOS become a PAIDION? Luke 2:17 calls the BREFOS a
>PAIDION while still a baby (evidentally a PAIDION is a "young child"
>without reference to age here?). Whereas is PAIDION in other contexts a
>reference to "young" but not a baby? I'm more interested in the common
>Koine usage in discriminating the uses.
DGE presents all the quotations of the article *bre/fos* under 3 divisions:
1: "cr'ia en el seno materno"
2: "reci'en nacido"
3: "cr'io, ninyo pequenyo" del que todav'ia no habla
It seems, then, that the acquisition of language separates the *bre/fos*
from the *paidi/on*, (cf. LSJ and new supplement) but, as paidi/on is the
less marked element of the semantic opposition, it is not impossible to
find *paidi/o*n where you would expect *bre/fos*.
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