technical+building

Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `portico' (Il.). Also a plant, s. s.v. αἴθω.

Other forms: αἴθουσσα Hdn. Gr. 2, 919

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Generally explained as ptc. of αἴθω, as `glowing, where the sun burns' or `where one can kindle fire', which is hardly a convincing meaning. Rather with Fur. 197 n. 54 as technical building term a substr. word, cf. the form with - σσ-; also the form αἰδῶσσα confirms this; it can hardly be a mistake for αἴθουσα, which would imply three mistakes, and it has also - σσ-.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `brick, air brick, bakestone', metaph. `square building stone, metal ingot, abacus' (IA.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. πλινθο-φόρος `bearing bricks, brick-bearer' (Ar.), ἡμι-πλίνθ-ιον n. `ingot in the shape of half a brick' (Hdt., Att. inscr.).

Derivatives: 1. Diminut.: πλινθ-ίον (Att.), - ίς f. (hell.), both mostly in metaph. special meanings; - άριον (LXX), - ίδιον (Iamb.). 2. Adj.: - ινος `made of bricks, of bricks' (IA.), - ικός `id.' (pap.), - ιακός `busy with bricks' (D. L.; after βιβλι-ακός, θηρι-ακός a.o.), - ωτός `brick-shaped' (Paul. Aeg.). 3. Subst.: - ῖτις f. `kind of στυπτηρία' (Gal.). 4. Adv.: - ηδόν `roofing tile-shaped' (Hdt.). 5. Verbs: πλινθ-εύω `to cut out bricks, to make bricks' (IA.) with - εία f., - εῖον n., - ευσις f., - ευμα n., - ευτής (hell.); - όομαι `to cover with bricks' (AP).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Technical expression of building with tiles and already for this reaon (cf. on κέραμος) as well as for the suffixe suspect of being a loan: Chantraine Form. 371, Güntert Labyrinth 22, Kretschmer Glotta 23, 12; on this Alessio Studi etr. 18, 139, Belardi Doxa 3, 218. On IE hypotheses s. Bq s. v., W.-Hofmann on 3. pila and later; also Lidén Stud. 18.

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `tower, wall-tower', also the fortification wall itself (Il.), metaph. `closed division of warriors, column' (Il.), `siege-tower' (X.), `farm-building', (LXX, pap., NT; lit. in Bauer Gr.-dt. Wb. s.v.).

Compounds: Compp., e.g. πυργο-δάϊκτος `destroying towers' (A. Pers. 105 [lyr.]; prop. `with destroyed towers'? Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 82; s. also E. Williger Sprachl. Unt. zu den Kompp. der gr. Dicht. des V.Jh.s [Göttingen 1928] 45 n. 1), εὔ-πυργος `with fair towers, well-towered' (Η 71 a.o.).

Derivatives: 1. Dimin. πυργ-ίον, - ίδιον, - ίς, - ίσκος, - ίσκιον, - ισκάριον (mostly hell. a. late); 2. - ωμα, mostly pl. - ώματα n. `tower structures' (Orac. ap. Hdt., A., E.); 3. πυργιτρον n. form a. meaning unclear (pap.VI<sup>p</sup>); 4. πυργ-ίτης n. `kind of sparrow' (Gal. a.o.; s. Redard 84 and on σποργίλος); - ῖτις βοτάνη H. 5. Adj. πύργ-ινος `consisting of towers' (A. in lyr.), - ειος `tower-like' (Ion., trag.), - ώδης `id.' (S.), - ῶτις `towered' (A. in lyr.; f. on *-ώτης, Redard 8); - ήρης `provided with towers, enclosed within towers or walls' (Orac. ap. Paus.) with - ηρέομαι `to be enclosed within towers or walls, to be besieged' (A., E.). 6. Adv. - ηδόν `columnwise' (Il.), `towerwise' (Aret.). 7. Verb πυργ-ῶσαι, - όω `to fence with towers, to pile up' (λ 264) with - ωτός `piled up' (Str. a.o.). 8. Πυργ-αλίδαι m. pl. n. of a guild in Kameiros (inscr.); after Τανταλ-ίδαι?

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Building technical expression; because of the striking similarity with NHG Burg, Goth. baurgs `town, tower' by Kretschmer Glotta 22, 100ff. taken as German. LW [loanword] through Northbalkan. (Macedon. ?) mediation. By others taken as Pre-Greek (Pelasgian as a form of Indo-European can now be forgotten. s. Furnée 40-55; s. Heubeck Praegraeca 63ff. w. further lit. In the same way is considered Πέργαμος, - ον, -α `the citadel (of Troy)', also PlN, to NHG Berg, Hitt. parkuš `high' etc.), s. Heubeck l.c. (Pok. 140f.), where also on the H.-glosses φύρκος τεῖχος and φ\<ο\> ύρκορ ὀχύρωμα (on this also Pisani Rev. int. ét. balk. 3, 22 n. 1); there is also a stronghold in Elis called Πύργος (Hdt. 4, 148, Str.) and a Φύρκος (Th. 5,49) -- On Lat. burgus (from Germ. or only influenced by it?) W.-Hofmann s.v. with Nachträgen. -- The forms with φυρκ- show well-known Pre-Greek alternations. To Asia Minor may point Urart. burgana `palace'. As to Περγαμον, the suffix - αμο- is Pre-Greek (cf. κάρδαμον). (Its non-IE character is confirmed by the place names Περγασα\/ Παργασα\/ Βαργασα, Furnée 64 n. 268, cf. on πάγασα) So the word is a normal Pre-Greek word.

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συναγωγή, ῆς, ἡ (Thu. et al.; ins, pap, LXX, Just.). The term ς. is fluid, and its use as a loanword in Eng. in connection with cult suggests a technical usage that belies the extraordinary breadth of use of ς. Orig. in act. sense ‘a bringing together, assembling’, then in LXX and contemporary documents ‘a gathering’ or ‘place of assembly’.—For ins evidence relating to cultic usage s. ROster, NTS 39, ’93, 181 n. 14 (the principal corpora); for synonyms, p. 186; cp. New Docs 4, 202f.

① a place where someth. collects, gathering place of the basins in which water is gathered at the creation (Gen 1:9; cp. Jos., Ant. 15, 346 ς. ὑδάτων; Did., Gen. 25, 14 ς., ἣν καλεῖν εἰώθασιν ὠκεανόν) 1 Cl 20:6.

② a place of assembly (Cybeleins [Bilderatlas z. Religionsgesch. 9–11, 1926 p. xix no. 154] ἐν τῇ τοῦ Διὸς συναγωγῇ; s. New Docs 3, 43. Sb 4981, 6f [restored].—On συναγωγή as a room for meetings cp. συνέδρια of the meeting-houses of the Pythagoreans Polyb. 2, 39, 1).

ⓐ of the Jewish synagogue (it is used for a place of assembly for Jews in Philo, Omn. Prob. Lib. 81 [w. ref. to the Essenes]; Jos., Bell. 2, 285; 289; 7, 44, Ant. 19, 300; 305; CIG 9894; 9904; BCH 21, 1897 p. 47; Συναγωγὴ Ἑβραίων in Corinth [s. Κόρινθος, end], in Rome [CIG IV, 9909] and ILydiaKP III, 42 p. 32ff.—S. AvHarnack, Mission⁴ II 1924, p. 568, 2; GKittel, TLZ 69, ’44, 11f.—Orig., C. Cels. 6, 23, 3; Hippol., Ref. 9, 12, 7); people came to the συν. to worship God Mt 4:23; 6:2, 5; 9:35; 12:9; 13:54; Mk 1:39; 3:1; 6:2; Lk 4:15; 6:6; J 18:20. In the same buildings court was also held and punishment was inflicted: Mt 10:17; 23:34; Mk 13:9; Lk 12:11; 21:12; Ac 22:19; 26:11 (HKee, NTS 36, ’90, 1–24 perceives Acts as reading a post-70 situation into Paul’s career; rejoinder ROster, ibid 39, ’93, 178–208, with caution against reliance on mere transliteration of ς. and w. conclusion that Luke is not guilty of anachronism; response by Kee, ibid. 40, ’94, 281–83 [also 41, ’95, 481–500], w. observation that the inscription from the syngagogue of Theodotus in Jerusalem [s. Dssm. LO 378–80=LAE 439–41; Boffo, Iscrizioni no. 31] may well be no earlier than IV A.D.; for critique of Kee’s views s. also ESanders, Jewish Law from Jesus to the Mishnah, ’87, 341–43 notes 28 and 29. For early use in reference to a Jewish synagogue, s. New Docs 4, 202, IBerenike 16, 5 [55 A.D.] of a building, ln. 3 of members meeting in it). Synagogues are also mentioned as existing in Antioch in Pisidia 13:14; Athens 17:17; Berea vs. 10; Damascus 9:20; Ephesus 18:19 (GHorsley, The Inscriptions of Ephesus and the NT: NovT 34, ’92, 105–68); Capernaum Mk 1:21; Lk 4:33; 7:5; J 6:59 (HKohl and CWatzinger, Antike Synagogen in Galiläa 1916; HVincent, RB 30, 1921, 438ff; 532ff; GOrfali, Capharnaum et ses ruines 1922); Corinth Ac 18:4 (s. New Docs 3, 121); Ephesus 19:8; Nazareth Lk 4:16; Salamis on the island of Cyprus Ac 13:5; Thessalonica 17:1.—ESukenik, Ancient Synagogues in Palestine and Greece ’34.—On the building of synagogues by patrons s. TRajak, Benefactors in the Greco-Jewish Diaspora, in MHengel Festschr. I ’96, 307 n. 7 lit.—On the relationship betw. συναγωγή and προσευχή (q.v. 2) s. SKrauss, Synagogale Altertümer 1922, 11; Boffo, Iscrizioni 39–46; Pauly-W. 2d ser. IV ’32, 1284–1316; ERivkin, AHSilver Festschr. ’63, 350–54.—AGroenman, De Oorsprong der Joodsche Synagoge: NThT 8, 1919, 43–87; 137–88; HStrack, RE XIX 221–26; Elbogen² 444ff; 571ff; Billerb. IV, 115–52 (the Syn. as an institution), 153–88 (the Syn. services); GDalman, Jesus-Jeshua (tr. PLevertoff) 1929, 38–55; SSafrai, MStern et al., The Jewish People in the 1st Century II, ’77, 908–44; LLevine, The Second Temple Synagogue, The Formative Years: The Synagogue in Late Antiquity ’87, 7–31; Schürer II 423–63; III 138–49; s. also lit. cited by Oster, Kee, and Boffo above.

ⓑ an assembly-place for Judeo-Christians (Nazarenes) can also be meant in Js 2:2 (so LRost, PJ 29, ’33, 53–66, esp. 54f but s. 4 below). εἰς ς. πλήρη ἀνδρῶν Hm 11:14 (cp. the superscription on a Marcionite assembly-place near Damascus συναγωγὴ Μαρκιωνιστῶν [OGI 608, 1 fr. 318/19 A.D.]; Harnack, SBBerlAK 1915, 754ff). S. 5 below.

③ the members of a synagogue, (the congregation of a) synagogue (Just., D. 53, 4 al.; references for this usage in Schürer II 423f; III 81–86; EPeterson, Byz.-Neugriech. Jahrbücher 2, 1921, 208)

ⓐ of localized synagogues Ac 6:9 (Schürer II 428; cp. CIJ 683 [=Corpus Ins. Regni Bosporani ’65 no. 70], for translation and ill. see RMackennan, Bar 22/2, ’96, 47); 9:2.

ⓑ in a limited sense, of those who consider themselves Ἰουδαῖοι but are hostile to Christians (who also identify themselves as Ἰουδαῖοι whether Israelite by descent or believers from the nations—on the mixed composition of the followers of Jesus Christ s. Ac 13:43; ISm 1:2), and are called (instead of συναγωγὴ κυρίου: Num 16:3; 20:4; 27:17; Josh 22:16; Ps 73:2) συναγωγὴ τοῦ σατανᾶ synagogue of Satan Rv 2:9; 3:9 (cp. Just., D. 104, 1 ἡ ς. τῶν πονηρευομένων; s. 5 below).

④ a synagogal meeting, a meeting, gathering for worship, of the Judeans λυθείσης τῆς συναγωγῆς Ac 13:43 (s. λύω 3).—Transferred to meetings of Judeo-Christian congregations (cp. TestBenj 11:2, 3; Just., D. 63, 5; 124, 1; Theoph. Ant. 2, 14 [p. 136, 12]) ἐὰν εἰσέλθῃ εἰς συναγωγὴν ὑμῶν Js 2:2 (this is the preferred interpr.: HermvSoden, Ropes, Meinertz, FHauck; s. 2b above). συναγωγὴ ἀνδρῶν δικαίων Hm 11:9, 13, cp. 14. πυκνότερον συναγωγαὶ γινέσθωσαν meetings (of the congregation) should be held more often IPol 4:2. (συναγ. is also found outside Jewish and Christian circles for periodic meetings; s. the exx. in MDibelius, Jakobus 1921 p. 124, 1. Also Philo Bybl.: 790 Fgm. 4, 52 Jac. [in Eus., PE 1, 10, 52] Ζωροάστρης ἐν τῇ ἱερᾷ συναγωγῇ τῶν Περσικῶν φησι; OGI 737, 1 [II B.C.] ς. ἐν τῷ Ἀπολλωνείῳ; PLond 2710 recto, 12: HTR 29, ’36, 40; 51.—Sb 8267, 3 [5 B.C.] honorary ins of a polytheistic ς.=association. W. ref. to the imperial cult BGU 1137, 2 [6 B.C.]. On the Christian use of the word s. also ADeissmann, Die Urgeschichte des Christentums im Lichte der Sprachforschung 1910, 35f).

⑤ a group of pers. who band together, freq. with hostile intent, band, gang ς. πονηρευομένων (Ps 21:17) B 5:13; 6:6; GJs 15:1 v.l. (for σύνοδος).—SSafrai, The Synagogue: CRINT I/2, 908–44; WSchrage, BHHW III 1906–10; Kl. Pauly V 451f.—S. ἀρχισυναγωγός and New Docs 4, 213–20. DELG s.v. ἄγω. EDNT. DLNT 1141–46. M-M. TW.

Grammatical information: f. (hell. m.; s. Schwyzer-Debrunner 32 n. 4, 34 n. 2)

Meaning: `round building with conical roof, rotunda', `round bath' (Od.);

Other forms: σαλία, θαλιο- s. below

Derivatives: θολίδιον (Attica). - θολία `round hat against the sun for women' (Theoc. 15, 39), also `chest with conical lid' (Poll.); cf. σαλία (σ- \< θ-) πλέγμα καλάθῳ ὅμοιον, ὅ ἐπὶ τῆς κεφαλῆς φοροῦσιν αἱ Λάκαιναι. οἱ δε θολία H.; s. also H. s. θαλιοποιοι [Latte corrects to *θαλλοκοποιοί]. - θολωτός `provided with θ., w. conical form' (Procop.), θολικός `id.' (Suid.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Technical word without explanation. One compares since Fick 1, 466 a word for `valley etc.', which is found in Germanic, Slavic, and Celtic, e. g. Goth. dal(s) m. or n. `φάραγξ, βόθυνος', OWNo. dalr `valley, arch', OCS dolъ `βάραθρον, λάκκος', Russ. dol `valley, lower part', Welsh dol f. `valley'. Prop. meaning then *`bowing, bending', from where `vault(ing)', resp. `hollow' (see Huisman KZ 71, 103); improbable. Often connected with θάλαμος, e. g. E. Maaß RhM 77, 1ff.; against this Wahrmann Glotta 19, 213. - Cf. Bq and Pok. 245f. - The variation α\/ο is typical of Pre-Greek.

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Grammatical information: n. pl.

Meaning: `panniers on both sides of the pack-saddle' (Ar., Artem.), also `curved pieces of wood at the back of a ship', which were used when a tent was drawn up' (H.);

Derivatives: - ιον acc. sg. in building `rafters' (IG 2<sup>2</sup>, 463, 73); ( ὄνος) κανθήλιος `pack-ass' (Pl., Kom., X.); κανθηλικός `belonging to the pack-basket or pack-ass' (pap.). - Beside it κανθίαι σπυρίδες H., κάνθων = ὄνος κανθήλιος (Ar., AP), κανθίς ὀνίς (`dung of an ass') H.

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: Popular words, of which the relations to each other and to other similar formations through their technical, to us often ununderstandable meaning remain unclear or doubtfull. With κανθήλια compare κειμήλια, γαμήλιος; note τράχηλος, γαμφηλαί and other words with ηλ-suffix. κανθίαι could be another derivation without λ. ( ὄνος) κανθήλιος `ass' is secondary to κανθήλια `pack-baskets' (Debrunner IF 54, 55); κάνθων could be a short form (like Lat. cabō to caballus) (Bq 406 n. 2, W.-Hofmann s. caballus); thus κανθίς (diff. Nehring Sprache 1, 166). - From κανθήλια, - ιος Lat. cant(h) ērius `castrated stallion', also `Jochgeländer [??], rafters' (with diff. suffix) cannot be separated. Further unclear; IE. etymologies were rightly rejected by W.-Hofmann s. cant(h) ērius. Acc.to Deroy Glotta 35, 190f. Mediterranean word. - Fur. 130 connects ἀνθήλιον (Charax) with κ\/zero, and assumes Pre-Greek origin; 290 he connects κανθίαι σπυρίδες with κάθος σπυρίς. - Cf. κάνθαρος, κανθός und κανθύλη.

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Grammatical information: m.

Meaning: `exertion, difficulty, distress, misery' (Hes. Sc., Pi., trag., mostly poet.).

Compounds: often as 2. member, e.g. πολύ-μοχθος `with much exertion' (trag., Arist.), also as building-technical expression in πρό-μοχθοι τὰ προβεβλημένα τῶν τοίχων (H., also Delos II^a).

Derivatives: 1. μοχθ-ηρός `laborious, miserable, worthless, bad' with μοχθηρ-ία `bad condition' (IA.), - όομαι `be laborious' (Aq.). 2. μοχθ-ήεις (Nic.), - ώδης (Vett. Val.) `id.' Verbs: 1. μοχθ-έω, also with ἐκ- a.o., `exert oneself, exist with difficulty' (poet. since K 106) with μοχθήματα pl. `exertions' (trag.); 2. μοχθ-ίζω `id.' (poet. since Β 273; metr. variant of 1., s. Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1. 95, Shipp Studies 95); 3. μοχθ-όω `tire' (Aq.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]

Etymology: To μόγος, μογέω (s.v.) with expressive enlarging θ, cf. ἄχθος, ὄχθος, βρόχθος a.o. (Schwyzer 510f., Chantraine Form. 366f.)? Basic forms like *μόγσ-θος (Schulze KZ 28, 270 n.l = Kl. Schr. 437 n. 1 [p. 438]) or *μόγσ-τος are hard to explain. -- To be rejected Pisani Ist. Lomb. 73, 528 (to Skt. myakṣ- `stick fast'); cf. Belardi Doxa 3, 214, W.-Hofinann s. mōlēs. - If the words show a variation γ\/χθ, it will be Pre-Greek. Fur. 319f., 388, who connects μοττίας ᾡ̃ στρέφουσι τῶν ῥυτήρων τὸν ἄξονα H. as Cretan from *μοκτίας.

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Grammatical information: f.

Meaning: `wing of a door, gate', mostly in plur. `door, gate', esp. of town-gates, gates of an camp a. the like (Il.); `entrance, access, bottleneck etc.', also as PlN (Pi., Emp., IA.).

Compounds: Several compp., e.g. πυλ-άρτης m. `gate-closer', adjunct of Hades, also as PN (Hom.), to ἀρ- in ἀραρίσκω (s.v.) with univerbating τη-suffix (Bechtel Lex. s.v., Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1. 31 w. n. 2); πυλ-ωρός, ep. πυλᾰ-ωρός, Hdt. πυλ-ουρός, H. πυλ-αυρός (Dor.), - ευρός (Ion.) `gate-keeper, guard' (Il.); on the comp.vowel and 2. member s. on ὁράω and Schwyzer 438, Leumann Hom. Wörter 223 n. 20: 2c, Chantraine Gramm. hom. 1, 161; ἑπτά-πυλος `with seven gates' (ep. lyr. Il.); PlN Θερμο-πύλαι pl. (Simon., Hdt. etc.); the Att. orator a.o. for it Πύλαι, cf. Risch IF 59, 267.

Derivatives: 1. Dimin. πυλ-ίς, - ίδος f. (IA.); 2. - ώματα pl. n. `gate' (A, E.; cf. Sommer Zum Zahlwort 9 n.1), formal enlargement (Chantraine Form. 186f.); 3. - εών (sp.), - ών (Arist., hell.). -( ε)ῶνος m. `gate-space, gateway, gate-building'; 4. Πυλ-ᾶτις, - ιδος f. `belonging to Πύλαι' (S. in lyr.), -αϊ̃τις, - ιδος f. `belonging to a gate' (Lyc. 356; for Πυλᾶτις?; cf. Redard 10 a. 212). 5. πυλαῖος `belonging to a gate' (late), `belonging to Πύλαι' (Demeter; Call.); PN Πύλαιος (Β842); Πυλαία, - ίη f. adjunct of the amphictyonian meeting in Πύλαι (IA.); from it Πυλαιασταί m. pl. prop. *"members of Πυλαία" (on the formation Fraenkel Nom. ag. 1, 175ff.; hardly correct Bechtel Dial. 2, 655), metaph. `mountebank, liar' (Phot., Suid.; Rhod. after H.); prob. also πυλαϊκός `conjurer-like' (late). 6. Denom. verb πυλ-όομαι, - όω `to be(come) provided with gates' (Ar., X.).

Origin: PG [a word of Pre-Greek origin]X [probably]

Etymology: As opposed to the inherited θύρα without etymology; so prob. technical LW [loanword] like many other expressions of architecture (e.g. μέγαρον; s. also Schwyzer 62). Vain attempts at interpretation in Bq (rejected). -- So prob. Pre-Greek.

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σκηνοπηγία, ας, ἡ (σκηνή, πήγνυμι Aristot., HA 9, 7 of the nest-building of swallows. Elsewh. only as a t.t. of Jewish religious lang.—σκανοπαγέομαι is found as a rel.-technical term in an ins [GDI 3632, 11–16] fr. the island of Cos [II B.C..—Dssm., LO 92f=LAE 92f]. On σκηνὴν πηγνύναι s. πήγνυμι 2) prim. ‘the setting up of tents’ or ‘construction of huts’. As name for the Festival of Booths/Tabernacles (σκ. in this sense, mostly w. ἑορτή: Dt 16:16; 31:10; Zech 14:16, 18, 19; 1 Esdr 5:50; 2 Macc 1:9 [τὰς ἡμέρας τῆς σκ.]; Jos., Ant. 4, 209; 8, 100; 123; 11, 154; 13, 241; 372; 15, 50, Bell. 2, 515. Jewish ins fr. Berenice in the Cyrenaica CIG III 5361 [13 B.C.]=Schürer III 94, n. 20, ln. 4), a festival celebrated Tishri (roughly=October) 15–21, out of doors when poss., in booths made fr. tree branches (חַג הַסֻּכּוֹת). Joseph. declares (Ant. 15, 50; cp. 8, 123) that it is the most important Jewish festival. J 5:1 v.l.; 7:2 (CSmith, NTS 9, ’63, 130–46).—Billerb. II 774–812; HBornhäuser, Sukka ’35, esp. pp. 34–39.—Demetrius of Scepsis in Athen. 4, 141ef tells of the τῶν Καρνείων of the Spartans σκηναῖς ἔχοντες παραπλήσιόν τι. They put up for nine days ‘something like a tent’. At times nine men eat together in them.—GMacRae, The Mng. and Evolution of the Feast of Tabernacles, CBQ 22, ’60, 251–76.—M-M. TW.

① maker of stage properties (acc. to Pollux 7, 189 the Old Comedy used the word as a synonym for μηχανοποιός=either a ‘stagehand’ who moved stage properties [as Aristoph., Pax 174] or a ‘manufacturer of stage properties’. Associated terms include σκηνογράφος Diog. L. 2, 125 and σκηνογραφία Arist., Poet. 1449a and Polyb. 12, 28a, 1, in ref. to painting of stage scenery) Ac 18:3. But if one understands σκηνή not as ‘scene’ but as ‘tent’ and considers it improbable that Prisca, Aquila, and Paul would have practiced such a trade in the face of alleged religious objections (s. Schürer II 54–55 on Jewish attitudes towards theatrical productions), one would follow the traditional rendering

② tentmaker. This interpretation has long enjoyed favor (s. Lampe s.v.; REB, NRSV; Hemer, Acts 119, 233), but several considerations militate against it. The term σκηνοποιός is not used outside the Bible (and its influence), except for Pollux (above) and Herm. Wr. 516, 10f=Stob. I, 463, 7ff. There it appears as an adj. and in a figurative sense concerning production of a dwelling appropriate for the soul. The context therefore clearly indicates a structure as the primary component, but in the absence of such a qualifier in Ac 18:3 it is necessary to take account of words and expressions that similarly contain the terms σκηνή and ποιεῖν. A survey of usage indicates that σκηνή appears freq. as the obj. of ποιέω in the sense ‘pitch’ or ‘erect a tent’ (s. ποιέω 1a; act. σκηνοποιέω Is 13:20 Sym. οὐδὲ σκηνοποιήσει ἐκεῖ ῎ Αραψ; 22:15 Sym.; mid. σκηνοποιέομαι Aristot., Meteor. 348b, 35; Clearch., Fgm. 48 W.; Polyb. 14, 1, 7; Diod S 3, 27, 4; Ps.-Callisth. 2, 9, 8.—Cp. σκηνοποιί̈α Aeneas Tact. 8, 3; Polyb. 6, 28, 3; ins, RevArch 3, ’34, 40; and acc. to the text. trad. of Dt 31:10 as an alternate expr. for σκηνοπηγία.—Ex 26:1, it is granted, offers clear evidence of use of the non-compounded σκηνή + ποιέω in the sense ‘produce’ or ‘manufacture [not pitch] a tent’, but the context makes the meaning unmistakable; cp. Herodian 7, 2, 4 on the building of rude housing). Analogously σκηνοποιός would mean ‘one who pitches or erects tents’, linguistically a more probable option than that of ‘tentmaker’, but in the passages cited for σκηνοποιέω and σκηνοποιί̈α components in the context (cp. the case for provision of housing in the Hermetic pass.) clearly point to the denotation ‘pitching of tents’, whereas Ac 18:3 lacks such a clear qualifier. Moreover, it is questionable whether residents of nomadic areas would depend on specialists to assist in such a common task (s. Mt 17:4 par. where a related kind of independent enterprise is mentioned).—That Prisca, Aquila, and Paul might have been engaged in the preparation of parts for the production of a tent is also improbable, since such tasks would have been left to their hired help. That they might have been responsible for putting a tent together out of various pieces is ruled out by the availability of the term σκηνορράφος (Ael., VH 2, 1 et al.; Bull. Inst. Arch. Bulg. 8, 69) in the sense of stitching together (the verb ἐπιτελεῖν Hb 8:5 does not support such a view, for it is not an alternate expr. for ‘production’ of a tent but denotes ‘completion’ of a project, connoting a strong sense of religious commitment; see ἐπιτελέω 2) in which the component ῥαφ-provides an unmistakable qualifier.—In modern times more consideration has been given to identification of Paul’s trade as ‘leather-worker’, an interpretation favored by numerous versions and patristic writings (s. Zahn, AG, ad loc.; L-S-J-M Suppl., s.v., as replacement for their earlier ‘tentmaker’; Haenchen, ad loc., after JJeremias, ZNW 30, ’31; Hock, s. below). As such he would make tents and other products from leather (Hock [s. below] 21). But this and other efforts at more precise definition, such as weaver of tent-cloth (a view no longer in fashion) may transmit reflections of awareness of local practice in lieu of semantic precision.—In the absence of any use of the term σκηνοποιός, beyond the pass. in Pollux and the Herm. Wr., and the lack of specific qualifiers in the text of Ac 18:3, one is left with the strong probability that Luke’s publics in urban areas, where theatrical productions were in abundance, would think of σκηνοποιός in ref. to matters theatrical (s. 1). In addition, Ac 20:34; 1 Cor 4:12; 1 Th 2:9; 2 Th 3:8 indicate that Paul’s work was of a technical nature and was carried out in metropolitan areas, where there would be large demand for such kind of work. What publics in other areas might understand is subject to greater question, for the evidence is primarily anecdotal.—JWeiss, Das Urchristentum 1917, 135; FGrosheide, Παῦλος σκηνοποιός: TSt 35, 1917, 241f; Zahn, AG II 632, 10; 634; Billerb. II 745–47; Beginn. IV, 223; PLampe, BZ 31, ’87, 211–21; RHock, The Social Context of Paul’s Ministry: Tentmaking and Apostleship ’80.—M-M. TW.