Illustrations
of English words derived from the Greek in the New
Testament.
Gaylon West.
English,
Glucose.
Etymology: from the Greek wordgleukos.
King
James Version.
“Others
mocking said, These men are full of new
wine.”
(Acts 2:13, KJV).
ετεροι
δε χλευαζοντες
ελεγον οτι
γλευκους
μεμεστωμενοι
[full
of] εισιν
(Greek
NT TR).
Another
version: 'But
others kept saying in derision, "They're drunk on sweet
wine!"'
(Acts 2:13, ISV).
Used in the NT
only once.
GLUCOSE.gleukosG1098
is translated as “sweet”
or “new”
wine in Acts 2:13. The apostles were miraculously speaking
in the various dialects and languages of the thousands of
pilgrims gathered in audience in Jerusalem. The people
hearing them thought they may have been “drunk”
for them to speak so. [Obviously, this would allude to their
hearing other dialects than their own.] Peter answered the
charge that the apostles were not “drunk” because
of the time of day and due to their message from God.
:
Original meaning of gleukosG1098.
Thayer's
Greek Definition:gleukosG1098glyoo'-kos. Akin to Strong's # G1099; “sweet wine,”
that is, (properly) must
(fresh juice),but
was used by the people for the more saccharine
(and therefore highly inebriating) fermented wine:
- new wine. Note:
Wine was either fresh juice or fermented mixed with water
(1:4,etc.). Gleukos
would have been close to 1:1 ratio with water (or 1:0).
Among the Hellenistic society it would have been the fourth
stage of consumption at their drinking symposiun. Total
KJV occurrences: only 1 time and is in Acts 2.
Robertson's
Word Pictures
[of the Greek NT]. (gleukous).
Sweet wine, but intoxicating. Sweet wine kept a year was very
intoxicating. Genitive case here after memestōmenoieisin
(periphrastic perfect passive indicative), old verb mestoō,
only here in the N.T. “Tanked up” with new wine,*
state of fulness. *fermented wine (GW).
GLUCOSE.
English word
as used.
Definition of
American English Glucose
–
from
MedicineNet
Glucose:
The simple sugar that is the chief source of energy. Glucose
is found in the blood and is the main sugar that the body
manufactures.
https://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=3608
from
Merriam-Webster Dictionary
American English
[Merriam-Webster
Dictionary]
for glucose glucose
1: a crystalline sugar C6H12O6;
specifically : the sweet colorless soluble dextrorotatory
form that occurs widely in nature and is the usual form in
which carbohydrate is assimilated by animals
2: a light-colored syrup made from cornstarch.
ETYMOLOGY.
etymonline.com.
“glucose”
(n.) is from the Greek word for fermented wine.
Used specifically
as a name of a group of sugars (in commercial use,
"sugar-syrup from starch"), 1840, from French
glucose
(1838), said to have been coined by French professor Eugène
Melchior Péligot (1811-1890) from Greek gleukos
[see below] "must, sweet wine," related to glykys
"sweet". It first was obtained from grape sugar.
Related: Glucosic.
GLUCOSE
derived words:
1. dextrose
(n.) sugar belonging to the glucose group, 1867, shortened
from dextro-glucose,
from dextro-
"right" + -ose
(2), chemical
suffix indicating a sugar. So
called because this form of glucose polarizes light to the
right in spectroscopy. 2. hypoglycemia
(n.)1893,
from Latinized form of Greek elements hypo- "under"
(see hypo-) + glykys
"sweet" (glucose) + haima
"blood" (see -emia).
COMPAREWITH
G1099: GLUKOSG1099.
Compare with
glucose's kin word glukusG1099.
definition: “sweet
(that is, not bitter nor salt),” James 3:11, Revelation
10:9-10 (2). Also, “fresh,” 1 James 3:12.
CONTRAST
WITH THE GENERIC WORD FOR WINE :
OINOSG3631
is a different
Greek WORD than glucoseG1098.
OINOS
is
the generic word in the Greek Bible OT and NT for the product
from the vine. It can be fresh juice, must, dried, heated or
fermented, etc. The context will determine.
AN
EXAMPLE OF "GRAPE JUICE OINOS" in the NT:
Jesus' parable of the wine bottlesG779 in Matthew 9:17 "Neither
do men put new neosG3501wine
oinosG3631[not
glucose] into
old bottles: else the bottle breaks, and the wine runneth out,
and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new
bottles, and both are preserved."
*"a leathern (or skin) bag used as a bottle" (Strong's).
When
wine is neos
(new) it begins to ferment naturally and the old skin bottles will burst
from the resulting expansion. So this wine is fresh and
hence, “new,” from the grapes. "New"
= neosG3501
A primary word, including the comparative ... (of persons)
youthful, or (of things) fresh; "wine" =
oinosG3631
oy'-nos A primary word (or perhaps of Hebrew origin
[H3196]); “wine” (literally or figuratively): -
wine. Generic word for product from the vine at its several
stages of freshness unto
a fermented state.
I recommend a well researched article of proofs online for oinos being generic; i.e., as fresh grape juice, fermented alcoholic :
http://www.lavistachurchofchrist.org/LVanswers/2008/04-10b.html'
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