brothers and sisters

From: storch@storchsites.de
Date: Sun Feb 13 2000 - 05:08:53 EST

• Next message: Wayne Leman: "brothers and sisters"
• Previous message: Carl W. Conrad: "Clarification through Obfuscation (Was: Passive, Active- Which voice?)"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
• Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

Hello everybody,

this may be a problem that mostly occurs in german bibletranslations.
I had a discussion about the translation of ADELFOI. The word is used very
frequently in the letters of Paul, James and John is usually translated as
"Bruder" (brothers). A friend of mine was told by a pastor (and so far
studied greek) that a better translation would be "Geschwister" (brothers
and Sisters). He said that the plural of ADELFOS could be translated both
"brothers" and "brothers and sisters".
Is this correct?

thankful for your help,

Storch

---
B-Greek home page: http://sunsite.unc.edu/bgreek
You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu]
To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-329W@franklin.oit.unc.edu
To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu

• Next message: Wayne Leman: "brothers and sisters"
• Previous message: Carl W. Conrad: "Clarification through Obfuscation (Was: Passive, Active- Which voice?)"
• Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] [ attachment ]
• Mail actions: [ respond to this message ] [ mail a new topic ]

This archive was generated by hypermail 2.1.4 : Sat Apr 20 2002 - 15:40:57 EDT