12-01-2014, 05:23 PM
Thank you Stephen. I am exactly where you are WRT the genealogies. However, the usage begs the question as to why Matthew would use this "more general" term (with several potential meanings) instead of another more-specific word for father. It made me wonder about the word itself. Perhaps this general word was used as a denotation of a reason for its use. Could there be a prefix or an ending on the word itself to denote that this "father" was father of a daughter within a genealogy normally naming only males. I was hoping to elicit some word study by Aramaic users. TB