Yawnnnnn. Lemme know when this d*** thing's over, ok? Kevin
On Sep 6, 2009, at 1:57 PM, Rocket J Squirrel wrote: > Well . . . "sin" seems to go deeper than that. I've read a lot > about the > etymology of this word, as it is currently used. Rather than try to > bang > back through the stuff I looked at years ago, someone else has already > written it up: > > Consider, for example, the etymology of the word “sin”. It comes > from the > Old English “synn”, which has the meaning of a crime and is associated > with doing evil. The Old Norse is “synd”, and the German Sünde. But > its > inclusion in the Bible is as a translation from the Latin “peccatum,” > which doesn’t mean the same thing at all; its meaning is more in > the sense > of a religious error. In the original Greek version of the New > Testament, > the word is “hamartia,” which literally means to miss the target – > a word > normally associated with archery. In biblical Hebrew, the generic > word for > sin is het. It means to err, to miss the mark. > > (http://www.wordsyoudontknow.com/2009/05/10-words-whose-etymology- > you-dont-know/ > -- I'm not quoting that as an authority, the same information is > available > from more scholarly sources. Rather, I am quoting that passage > because > it's concise, something I don't have enough time to be.) > > -- > Mike "Rocket J Squirrel" Elliott > 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana") > 74 Utility Trailer. Ladybug Trailer, Inc., San Juan Capistrano > Bend, OR > KG6RCR > > > > On 9/6/2009 9:40 AM Mike S wrote: > >> At 10:31 AM 9/6/2009, David Beierl wrote... >>> Incidentally, the word "sin" literally means missing the >>> target you shot at. >> >> Where do you get that? The OED says "ORIGIN Old English, probably >> related to Latin sons 'guilty'." I would have guessed its roots to be >> in "sinister," which literally means "left," but has other meaning >> related to "sin." >> >> Is "frak" OK? >> |
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