What's that line over the word " God " in New Testament manuscripts ?

You like the Bible, eh ?

Answer the question

This thread was started for the user - bev bailey (bevbailey2020)

She sits in chatrooms spamming " Jesus Jesus Jesus " but apparently isn't even remotely familiar with how the name " Jesus " is actually written in New Testament manuscripts

She likes to call other people " fake ", while simultaneously being completely ignorant of how things are written in the scriptures, so I thought I'd give her the opportunity to step up and defend her words where they will stay on the screen for everybody to read

I'll wait, Bev

no, that's incorrect

Thanks for trying to answer it tho

Ma'am, I am not referring to a diacritic mark, this was made clear by the opening post

You're getting a bit confused here, let me clarify:

The line we are referring to is over the ENTIRE word

It is not a diacritic over a single letter

" If you say so " ?

I am referring to the Titlo that is used over ALL nomina sacra in new testament manuscripts

This is not a diacritic mark, this is a notation for divinity

Completely different

I suggest you start over

Lol. Doubling down ?

Now I will correct you

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First off - I said " Over the word " , not a single letter

Diacritic marks go over single letters

Titlo goes over entire words

All Nomina Sacra have a titlo over the ENTIRE word

a titlo =/= a diacritic

a titlo has NOTHING to do with phonetic pronunciation

It is a notation for divinity

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nomina_sacra


It's used over the abbreviated " sacred names " - God, Lord, Jesus, Christ, Son, Spirit, David, Cross, Mother, Father, Israel, Savior, Man, Jerusalem, and Heaven

If you guys spent just a tad more time with your study you'd have come across the Greek Concordance entry for it

https://biblehub.com/greek/2762.htm

keraia: a little horn
Original Word: κεραία, ας, ἡ
Part of Speech: Noun, Feminine
Transliteration: keraia
Phonetic Spelling: (ker-ah'-yah)
Definition: a little horn
Usage: a little hook, an apostrophe on letters of the alphabet, distinguishing them from other little letters, or a separation stroke between letters.
HELPS Word-studies
2762 keraía – properly, a little "horn," i.e. " 'a little hook, an apostrophe' on letters of the alphabet, distinguishing them from other like-letters, or a 'separation stroke' between letters" (Souter); a tittle (KJV).

["Tittle" comes from the Latin, titulus – the stroke above an abbreviated word – and later, any small mark.












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Hopefully now, you are not conflating two entirely unrelated things

Btw, according to wikipedia " Biblical scholar and textual critic Bruce M. Metzger lists 15 such words treated as nomina sacra "

That's a bit odd, because when I was studying Greek Bible manuscripts over at the CSNTM database I noticed he left one off his list

That would be manuscript P-47 if you want to look at it

Always make sure you fact check yourself BEFORE you attempt to correct someone else

Glad you learned a few things

Maybe Bev will too

Just in case you're reading this and still confused -

A diacritic mark tells you how to pronounce a letter, it's for transliteration

A titlo is a determinative and tells you about the word it's used on

If you don't know what a determinative is, start here:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Determinative

I've never heard of there being any "line" over the word God in New Testament manuscripts. The word is simply "Theos", with the changes usual in an inflected language.

That's amusing as fck, especially considering the notation is used in ALL New Testament manuscripts

Hell, the notation isn't just used in New Testament manuscripts, it also appears commonly in artwork depicting Jesus

What's really amusing though, is that Jesus himself mentions the notation I'm referring to

It's almost like people on wire have never actually opened the Bible

I have a good idea, shadow

Why don't you look over this repository of New Testament manuscripts and find one with the word " God " in it that DOESN'T have a titlo over it

Here ya go, largest online repository of NT texts that exists ---- https://www.csntm.org/

Let's see you do that

Shadow, I removed your little snide remark

Perhaps if you would have just read the thread you wouldn't be confused

Thank you, come again

Now that we've covered the basics

Let's move on to the more advanced side of exegesis

I think my next post on this will be covering the origin of this New Testament Biblical notation, which happens to come from a unit of measurement used on royal cubit rods, by priests, to build temples

stay tuned

Have to admit, I'm still chuckling over the fact that all these people online that love to debate Biblical topics aren't familiar with a basic writing convention of the New Testament