HEBRAISM
HEBRAISM
HEBRAISM.-The Greek language of the New Testament is tinged with HEBRAISM. Gnom. Pref. xiv. pp. xxxvii. xxxviii.; App. Crit. p. 488, v.: It hebraizes: Gnom. on Rom 9:8. The diction of the New Testament is not pure Greek; and it imitates the Hebrew usage,
1) In single words; e.g.- , Joh 1:42; , Mat 4:10; , Rev 19:1; , Luk 2:41; , Mat 1:23.
2) In forms of speech and phrases; for instance,- , for to kill, Mat 23:35. Also , for, to be begotten or born of a person, Heb 7:5; , worthy of hell, Mat 23:15.
3) In grammatical figures; e.g.-Enallage, the putting of the abstract for the concrete, , i.e. the uncircumcised, Rom 2:26; , i.e. the circumcised, Rom 3:30 : Pleonasm (see the Title, Pleonasm); Ellipsis (see Ellipsis); Hypallage (see Hypallage).
4) In the universal (general) form of the Language. ERNESTI Inst. Int. p. 43, etc., 8, etc. The book of JOHN OLEARIUS de Stilo N. T., Sect. Didact. Membr. ii. pp. 232, 233.
It is also HEBRAISM, if the Greek words have not that signification in the New Testament which the usage of pure Greek authors assigns to them, but that which is in those Hebrew words, the place of which is sustained by the Greek words (which are represented by the Greek words): ERNESTI, l. c. 9, 10: e.g.-, Luk 1:37, as the Hebr. , a word, put for a thing or business; , 2Co 11:22, as , for posterity, etc. See OLEARIUS, L. c. p. 241, etc.