Re: Pros

From: Jack Kilmon (jkilmon@historian.net)
Date: Sun May 23 1999 - 09:48:04 EDT

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My understanding is that PROS always infers a direction and
can mean 'near to" or in "proximity to."

Jack

Bill Ross wrote:
>
> PROS also means "with."
>
> An example is the opening of John's Gospel:
>
> EN ARKH HN hO LOGOS KAI hO LOGOS HN PROS TON THEON. ("In the beginning was
> the Word and the Word was *with* God.")
>
> Since you use the accusative with the object in either case, only context
> distinuishes whether you mean "with" or "towards."
>
> In the example above, it is generally taken as meaning "with." What is your
> friends' theory about the word?
>
> Bill Ross
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim West [mailto:jwest@highland.net]
> Sent: Saturday, May 22, 1999 9:22 PM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Cc: b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu
> Subject: Re: Pros
>
> At 06:45 PM 5/22/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hello,
> >I am not a student in Greek, but I plan to be as soon as I am able. I am
> >having a discusion with someone about something, and they brought up the
> >Greek word "pros". Which is commonly translated as "with", I suppose.
> >Does "pros" convey something more than just "with"?
>
> It means to or towards. With is the greek preposition "sun"
> +++++++++++++++++++++++++
> Jim West, ThD
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