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Does "Yes Lord" Mean "Yes" or "No" in Matt 15:27?

Thursday, November 21

When the woman answers Jesus, "Yes, Lord," is she agreeing or disagreeing? Most translations use an adversative like "but" for the following γάρ even though that gloss does not appear in the lexicon. Are they right to do so?

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How to tell a Story in Greek (1 Tim 1:6)

Monday, December 2

When Greek lays out a sequence of events, it tends to use anarthrous participles followed by an indicative verb. The question for the student is how to translate the participle into proper English. In our passage, the participle is actually telling us why the false teachers turned aside to error.

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Greek Word of the Day

ἀδελφός

ἀδελφός means “brother.”

“Whoever does the will of my Father is my ἀδελφός and sister and mother” (Matt 12:50).

Noun: ἀδελφός (adelphos), GK G81 (S G80) 343x. adelphos (“brother”) has a wide range of uses in the NT; a closely related word (adelphē) means “sister.” It denotes first of all a sibling from the same parents (Mt. 1:2, 11; 4:18, 21). adelphos can also refer to a fellow member or an associate of a person such as one who shares a belief system (Mt. 12:50). Since both men and women were involved in the early church, we should usually understand the plural of adelphos as “brothers and sisters.” adelphos can also indicate a person’s ethnic relationship, and is sometimes used in the simple sense of neighbor (Mt. 5:22).

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