[b-greek] Re: QANATOS (separation)

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Fri Jan 11 2002 - 16:33:05 EST


At 1:09 PM -0800 1/11/02, waldo slusher wrote:
>I have read often where "death" in the bible refers to
>"separation."
>
>Is this true? If so, is the root somehow related to
>"separation" ?
>
>This seems more like an etymology question, and if
>these kind of questions are not apropos here, please
>kindly disregard.

There is nothing in the verbal root QNH/QAN (verb QNHiSKW, noun QANATOS)
that implies anything about the nature of death; there are, of course,
conceptions of what QANATOS is ranging across a whole spectrum of notions
but these have nothing to do with the Greek root itself.
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Carl W. Conrad
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