[b-greek] Re: KJV Mt. 2:4

From: B. D. Colt (babc@ix.netcom.com)
Date: Mon Jun 11 2001 - 20:25:10 EDT


On 11 Jun 01, at 16:57, lance w seevers wrote:


> span of 400 > years? > Would "demand" have meant "ask" to 17th-century
> readers?

My American Heritage Dictionary gives as one meaning:

    8. Archaic An emphatic question or inquiry.

Barbara D. Colt, mailto:babc@ix.netcom.com
St John the Evangelist, San Francisco

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