[B-Greek] Luke 24.7 rising "again"

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun Jun 15 04:06:16 EDT 2008


On Jun 14, 2008, at 10:36 PM, newsgroupstuff wrote:

>> Would it be too much to suggest that the fundamental meaning of the
>> prefix ANA- is "up"? ANISTAMAI means "get up" -- from a sitting, or
>> reclining -- or dormant -- position. ANISTAMAI and EGEIROMAI are
>> roughly equivalent standard words for "wake up," "get up," "arise."
>> The verb is used of resurrection just as the verb KOIMAOMAI "go to
>> sleep,"  is used metaphorically of death. It is those who choose to
>> translate ANASTHNAI as "rise again" who are responsible for the
>> redundancy. There's nothing redundant in the Greek verb itself.
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad
>> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
>
> Yes, certainly ANISTAMAI is standard word for getting up, from sleep,
> sitting etc.
>
> So does ANA- ever mean "again"? Or is that a complete  
> misunderstanding..?

Certainly it can have that sense, although the sense in ANISTAMAI --  
and its noun equivalent ANASTASIS -- is clearly "up."
LSJ:
  IN COMPOS.
as in C. 1, up to, upwards, up, opp. κατά [KATA], as ἀνα- 
βαίνω, -βλέπω [BLEPW], ἀν-αιρέω [AN-AIREW], - 
ίστημι [-ISTHMI]: poet. sometimes doubled, ἀν'  
ὀρσοθύρην ἀναβαίνειν [AN' ORSOQURHN ANABAINEIN] Od. 
22.132.
hence flows the sense of increase or strengthening, as in  
ἀνακρίνω [ANAKRINW]; though it cannot always be translated, as  
in Homer's ἀνείρομαι [ANEIROMAI]:—in this case opp. ὑπό  
[hUPO].
from the notion throughout (E), comes that of repetition and  
improvement, as in ἀνα-βλαστάνω, -βιόω, -γεννάω.   
[ANA-BLASTANW, -BIOW, -GENNAW]
the notion of back, backwards, in ἀναχωρέω, ἀνανεύω  
[ANACWREW, ANANEUW], etc., seems to come from such phrases as ἀνὰ  
ῥόον up, i. e. against, the stream.

I would hope we could steer clear

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)






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