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 S�nde. 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
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>
> 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?
>>