From: Ed Garcia (Ed.Garcia@FHLBTopeka.com)
Date: Wed Feb 06 2002 - 09:19:13 EST
Allow me to throw my two cents worth in. If I'm not wrong, typically, aren't
abstract words given a feminine ending, such as aletheia (or however it is
you would spell the word truth)?
Ed Garcia
Kansas
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From: Carl W. Conrad [mailto:cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 7:11 AM
To: Biblical Greek
Cc: Biblical Greek
Subject: [b-greek] Re: Philadelphia = "brotherly love"?
At 8:52 AM -0400 2/6/02, Brent Hudson wrote:
>>It's possible that the coiner of this name of many Hellenistic cities knew
>>Greek grammar better than you: <snip>
>
>That is a very interesting response! I understood the question quite
>differently. In my reading of it, I understood Keith to be asking how
>Greek scholars (not the original writers) came to gloss FILADELFIA as
>"*brotherly* love" when it is a feminine form.
>
>Brent Hudson
But in any case there's a real misunderstanding here--failure to realize
that the root ADELF- involved here refers to both ADELFOS "brother" and
ADELFH "sister"--and that "brotherhood" was clearly enough understood until
recent years to refer to a sense of human solidarity as well as to some
sort of "male bonding." And there's a misunderstanding too of the
relationship of GENDER to lexical meaning in the case of words not
referring to male or female persons or animals.
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>
>On 05/02/2002 Carl W. Conrad wrote:
>
>>At 4:44 PM -0500 2/5/02, Keith Saare wrote:
>>>Can somebody please explain to me why "Philadelphia" (in the feminine
>>>gender) somehow came to mean "brotherly love." Did this mistake originate
>>>simply from folks not knowing Greek grammar?
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