Strongs Greek: 'of uncertain affinity'

[eternally-gratefull]

I think the argument is mute.

If I say I have a thousand dollars. I could mean I literally have 1000 dollars, or I could mean I have near a thousand, or I could mean I have alot of money.

Thus both Stilly and GRC have valid points

which leads us to the question. Why Would God tell John his son would rule for a thousand years And not mean literally (or at least close to) a thousand years?

John was told he was to write what he saw, so we who read his letter can understand the things which will happen. It makes no sense why God would confuse the reader, and say his son will rule for a thousand years after the beast and false prophet are cast to hell, and Satan is bound, when in reality it is no where near a thousand years. (example. now it would be over 2 thousand years in length if we listen to ammilenialism)

 

[nathan3]

[size=+1]I looked it up to see what it says in the Strong's ; The word """" two thousand """ as used in Mark 5: 13

1367 from diV - dis 1364 and cilioi - chilioi 5507; two thousand:--two thousand.

discilioi
dischilioi
dis-khil'-ee-oy


Now lets look at these two words here -->>1364 and 5507

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1364 adverb from duo - duo 1417; twice:--again, twice. <-- there is another word here ( 1417 ) lets look at that one too
diV
dis
dece


1417
duo a primary numeral; "two":--both, twain, two.
duo
doo'-o
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5507
cilioi plural of uncertain affinity; a thousand:--thousand.
chilioi
khil'-ee-oy[/size]

 

[GlenManning]

I just join "Christian Chat" today and love this discussion here on "thousand" I just watched a teaching on the word "thousand" from a Greek language Scholar named Jim Brown who has a ministry called "Grace and Truth" He says there is only one definite article in the Greek Language (the) with 27 ways of spelling it, there is no "a" or "an" definite articles in Greek and the word "thousand" is a noun, not a number unless it has a determiner in front of it. You can view the video here:

 

[JohnRaleigh]

"Oh! Look what I found!" (Please see attachment.)

I found the phrase 'of uncertain affinity' attached to 100 different words in Strongs Greek Bible Dictionary.

(A little research, and...)

It is not actually part of the definition of the word. Rather, it is a "comment" or "remark" that is related to the language use of the word and its similarity to other words.

A great many - if not most - of the words in the dictionary have these types of comments/remarks attached to them. (And usually listed first, before the definition begins.)

The phrase essentially means:

"The kinship of this word to other words is unknown." ("at least not with certainty")

It simply means that [Strong] could not connect the word (with certainty) to some other more original word or to a "lower-level" [root] word.

"That's my story, and I'm sticking to it!"



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Thank you!

 

[JohnRaleigh]

I just join "Christian Chat" today and love this discussion here on "thousand" I just watched a teaching on the word "thousand" from a Greek language Scholar named Jim Brown who has a ministry called "Grace and Truth" He says there is only one definite article in the Greek Language (the) with 27 ways of spelling it, there is no "a" or "an" definite articles in Greek and the word "thousand" is a noun, not a number unless it has a determiner in front of it. You can view the video here:

I've listened to Jim Brown's teachings since 2012!