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Old 05-13-2009, 09:03 AM
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Re: Head Coverings

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Originally Posted by Twisp View Post
Other languages may need it to be translated, but that is not the case for the way it is used in the Bible. I am not up on my greek translations (working on it), but at blueletterbible.org the definition given for κομάω is :
1) to let the hair grow, have long hair

It does not seem to be translated into "uncut" in this passage. I believe there was also a Greek word for uncut at the time, which one would imagine he would have used.
I believe "akoptos" is Greek for uncut.
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