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Trivia: Most number of meanings and useages?

Posted: January 11th, 2014, 1:42 pm
by Stephen Hughes
Which words have the most number of meanings in the GNT?
Which verbs have the most number of useages in the GNT?

[If you want to try this one, you can reference whatever standard word that you want to to get the number from.]

A possible example might be:
  • ἑτοιμασία has 2 meanings (Thayer's Definition)
    • the act of preparing
    • the condition of a person or thing so far forth as prepared, preparedness, readiness
But of course a word with the most meanings will have more than 2.

Re: Trivia: Most number of meanings and useages?

Posted: January 12th, 2014, 12:41 am
by David Lim
Stephen Hughes wrote:Which words have the most number of meanings in the GNT?
Hey let me try this one! I think we talked on B-Greek about ΕΠΙ before. ;)
Stephen Hughes wrote:Which verbs have the most number of useages in the GNT?
Isn't that "λεγειν" ("εν" (preposition) is 2nd and "ειναι" is 3rd)? Unless you mean with different senses, in which case how about "εχειν"?

But hmm I didn't reference any 'standard work'...