ἐπικαλέω: Difference between revisions

|txtha=ἐπικαλῶ: 1st aorist ἐπεκαλεσα; (passive and middle, present ἐπικαλοῦμαι); perfect passive ἐπικέκλημαι; pluperfect 3rd person singular ἐπεκέκλητο, and with neglect of augment (cf. Winer s Grammar, § 12,5; Buttmann, 33 (29)) ἐπικεκλητο (ἐπεκλήθην; future middle ἐπικαλέσομαι; 1st aorist middle ἐπεκαλεσάμην; the Sept. very often for קָרָא;<br /><b class="num">1.</b> to put a name upon, to surname: τινα (Xenophon, Plato, others), G T Tr WH ( ἐκάλεσαν); passive ὁ ἐπικαλούμενος, he who is surnamed, R G L; R G; also ὅς ἐπικαλεῖται, ὁ ἐπικληθείς, R G); ὅς ἐπεκλήθη, Winer s Grammar, § 38,3), to permit oneself to be surnamed: τινα: εἰ πατέρα ἐπικαλεῖσθε τόν etc. i. e. if ye call (for yourselves) on him as father, i. e. if ye surname him your father.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> ἐπικαλεῖται τό ὄνομα τίνος ἐπί τινα, after the Hebrew פ עַל פ... שֵׁם נִקְרָא..., "the name of one is named upon some one, i. e. he is called by his name or declared to be dedicated to him" (cf. Gesenius, Thesaurus iii., p. 1232 a): the people of God); οἱ τοῦ Χριστοῦ).<br /><b class="num">3.</b> τίνι with the accusative of the object; properly, to call something to one (cf. English to cry out upon (or against) one); "to charge something to one as a crime or reproach; to summon one on any charge, prosecute one for a crime; to blame one for, accuse one of" (Aristophanes pax 663; Thucydides 2,27; 3,36; Plato, legg. 6,761e.; 7,809e.; Dio Cass. 36,28; 40,41and often in the orators (cf. under the word κατηγορέω)): εἰ τῷ οἰκοδεσπότῃ Βηλζεβουλ ἐπεκάλεσαν (i. e. accused of commerce with Beelzebul, of receiving his help, cf. πόσῳ μᾶλλον τοῖς ὀικιακοις αὐτοῦ, L WH marginal reading after Vat. (see 1above), a reading defended by Rettig in the Studien und Kritiken for 1838, p. 477ff and by Alexander Buttmann (1873) in the same journal for 1860, p. 343, and also in his N. T. Gram. 151 (132); (also by Weiss in Meyer edition 7 at the passage). But this expression (Beelzebul for the help of Beelzebul) is too hard not to be suggestive of the emendation of some ignorant scribe, who took offence because (with the exception of this passage) the enemies of Jesus are nowhere in the Gospels said to have called him by the name of Beelzebul.<br /><b class="num">4.</b> to call upon (like German anrufen), to invoke; middle, to call upon for oneself, in one's behalf: anyone as a helper, τόν κύριον Ἰησοῦν (βοηθόν, Plato, Euthyd., p. 297c.; Diodorus 5,79); τινα μάρτυρα, as my witness, Plato, legg. 2,664c.); as a Judges , i. e. to appeal to one, make appeal unto: Καίσαρα, τόν Σεβαστόν, יְהוָה בְּשֵׁם קָרָא to call upon by pronouncing the name of Jehovah, קָרָא); an expression finding its explanation in the fact that prayers addressed to God ordinarily began with an invocation of the divine name: ἐπικαλοῦμαι τό ὄνομα τοῦ κυρίου, I call upon (on my behalf) the name of the Lord, i. e. to invoke, adore, worship, the Lord, i. e. Christ: τόν κύριον, ἐπικαλεῖσθαι τούς Θεούς, as Xenophon, Cyril 7,1, 35; Plato, Tim., p. 27c.; Polybius 15,1, 13).