Re: RENEW

From: Jürg Buchegger (j.buchegger@datacomm.ch)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 02:37:49 EDT


<x-charset iso-8859-1>Dear Richard (and others who joined the discussion on "renew"),

because your initial question concerned the difference between ANAKAINIZW
and KAINIZW I want to address this first:
Both verbs have been used before the NT and the question is really what
difference the ANA- makes. The preposition normally gives the simplex a
specially coloring. In the case of ANA it is either some form of "up" or
"back, again". In verbs with a local dimension the "up" of course is meant
locally, in other verbs (like KAINIZW) it can point to "becoming complete,
full, whole". With "back, again" one has also to check the possibilities
(from the content and context) in each case, whether the meaning "back" or
"again" makes some sense.
To read more about this check Moulton/Howard, Grammar vol. 2 on p.295

Now I think it is important to know, that in hellenistic Greek, in adding a
preposition (which is popular in the Koine) is in the first place to
intensify the meaning of the stem (?) of the verb itself. So don't read too
much into it.
This is also important for the mentioned (in a following post to your
question) ANAKAINOW. Note that ANAKAINOW (and ANAKAINWSIS) does not occur in
any Greek text before Paul! I think it is a word Paul "coined" for his own
purpose.

Finally: The statistics says that the words for "new" developed in the
following way:

                    adj. KAINOS and NEOS
verb KAINIZW
                                                                        verb
NEOW
                                verb KAINOW verb ANANEOW
    verb ANAKAINIZW noun ANANEWSIS
    verb EGKAINIZW
    nouns EGKAINISIS/EGKAINISMOS
    noun KAINISMOS
                                verb ANAKAINOW
                                verb ANAKAINWSIS
    noun KAINISIS noun KAINWSIS
    nouns ANAKAINISIS/ANAKAINISMOS

Hope this helps a bit

J¸rg Buchegger

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