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Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by baggy_trough on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:29PM (#27486490)
Nobody really knows how to translate the "daily" in that sentence because it's a word that appears nowhere else.
Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by throw0101a on Saturday June 12, 2021 @03:22PM (#27486838)
For anyone curious:

> Epiousios (ἐπιούσιος) is a Greek adjective used in the Lord's Prayer verse "Τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον"[a] 'Give us today our epiousion bread'. Because the word is used nowhere else, its meaning is unclear. It is traditionally translated as "daily", but most modern scholars reject that interpretation.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiousios

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hapax_legomenon

Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by russellbeattie on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:50PM (#27487337)
Whenever I start diving into theology on Wikipedia, I'm always struck by the similarity of Bible study to the effort put into Wikis about Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, etc.

Basically, early Christians were fanboys obsessed with the minutia and canonical stories of their favorite fantasy series published in two volumes. (Amusingly, it seems that L. Ron Hubbard noticed the same thing years ago and thought, "Hey, I can do that...")

Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by ljf on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:12PM (#27487470)
https://youtu.be/IOPd80FN2ew you might really enjoy the lectures of Bart Ehrman.
Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by drummojg on Saturday June 12, 2021 @02:43PM (#27486575)
A hapax legomenon, one of my favorite literary terms.
Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by russellbeattie on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:52PM (#27487352)
Much better than "Googlewhack" for sure.
Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by I_complete_me on Saturday June 12, 2021 @04:23PM (#27487192)
A word or form that occurs only once in the recorded corpus of a given language.
Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by Narretz on Saturday June 12, 2021 @05:24PM (#27487543)
* A word that occurs only once in a given corpus. For example, if you list all the words in a book, it can have many hapax. That usually says something about the diversity of words an author uses. A hapax that is unique to all records of a language is quite rare.
Re:Etymology of the Word “Lord” by stevula on Saturday June 12, 2021 @07:52PM (#27488470)
> A hapax that is unique to all records of a language is quite rare.

Depends on how well attested the language is. In Koine Greek I would imagine they’re relatively rare, but in Etruscan or Epic Greek much more common.