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  • From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan AT texcel.no>
  • To: Biblical Hebrew <b-hebrew AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Translations and Arian Bias
  • Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 22:01:21 -0500


>Rolf Furuli writes:

> Have you ever tried to look at the 120 examples of bekor and the 132
>examples of prwtotokos in the OT and and the 8 examples of prwtotokos in
>the NT? If you do, you will find that more than 95% of the examples
>definitely have the *literal* meaning "the one who is born first".

Er, is that a form of argument we want to use for word meaning? If "run"
means something similar to "jog" in 95% of the uses, does that mean that it
doesn't have a different meaning when used in a phrase like "run in a
stocking"?

Jonathan
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Jonathan Robie
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