Re: Synonyms meaning deceive

From: Paul R. Zellmer (zellmer@cag.pworld.net.ph)
Date: Sun Jul 12 1998 - 02:29:21 EDT

Mr. Lemuel G. Abarte wrote (in an off-list note):
>
> Paul,
>
> Perhaps it would be best to cite the passages. There seems to me a difference. But > it would not be brought out in the translation, since one word is only allowed on > print without being a paraphrase.
>
Actually, as I went back to build up a list of passages, I found that
PLANAW is the root of the word from which we get planets. That doesn't
help me with the semantic domain of APATAW, but it does give us a
concept for this very common word that is found in verbal form almost 40
times, not counting the other forms that it is found. Would "wander
from the true or appointed place" sound too far off the mark for PLANAW?

I found it interesting to note that the book of James included at least
three of these words for "deceive" in just the first chapter. As one
who works in a "foreign language," to be able to use so many synonyms
(correctly, I assume) shows that James had a remarkable grasp of the
Greek language! That's especially notable if the author is the same
James referred to by Paul in Galatians 2. But now I am getting off the
track of the list!
 
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> Sincerely,
>
> Lemuel
> Mansilingan Bible Study Center
> Bacolod City
> Philippines

Thanks,

Paul 

-- 
Paul and Dee Zellmer, Jimmy Guingab, Geoffrey Beltran
Ibanag Translation Project
Cabagan, Philippines

zellmer@faith.edu.ph

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