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To: D-fendr; 1000 silverlings; jo kus; kosta50; Dr. Eckleburg; qua
What is the word for "cousin" in Aramaic?

anepsios - It means "sister son" and is used in Col:


5,569 posted on 05/04/2006 4:59:38 AM PDT by HarleyD ("Then He opened their minds to understand the Scriptures" Luk 24:45)
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To: HarleyD; blue-duncan
Thanks, I'll take your word for it.

I think we'd agree that while one's sister's son is one's cousin, the words do not have the same meaning.

"Cousin" also includes sister's daughter, brother's son, brother's daughter, grandmother's sister's son, uncle's wife's sister's son, etc. We have one word for this: "cousin" and can say, "Charlie's cousins all came to the wedding." rather than Charlie's sister's sons and brother's sons and sister's daughters..."

I think it's likely this topic was discussed before on this thread somewhere. So to save space, a fairly complete argument from the RC side is here.

Thanks for your reply...

5,589 posted on 05/04/2006 9:55:00 AM PDT by D-fendr
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To: HarleyD; blue-duncan
Sorry, bad link in previous post.

Correct link is here.

5,591 posted on 05/04/2006 10:07:35 AM PDT by D-fendr
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