Βοανηργές

Βοανηργές (var. other spellings are found in the mss., e.g. Βοανεργές, which is also used by Just.) of Aram. composition Boanerges=Hebr. בְּנֵי רֶגֶשׁ Mk 3:17, transl. υἱοὶ βροντῆς Sons of thunder (cp. Diod S 8, 11, 2 of a house that had been struck by lightning: ὀνομάζεται Ἐμβρονταῖον=House of Thunder); surname given by Jesus to the sons of Zebedee (s. Lk 9:54). See EKautzsch, Gramm. d. Bibl. Aram. 1884, 9; Dalman, Gramm.² 144, Worte 33; 39, 4, Jesus 11; RHarris, Exp. 7th ser. III 1907, 146–52, ET 36, 1925, 139; JBoehmer, StKr 85, 1912, 458–64; EPreuschen, ZNW 18, 1918, 141–44 (s. Fischer, ibid. 23, 1924, 310f); FSchulthess, D. Problem d. Sprache Jesu 1917, 52f, ZNW 21, 1922, 243–47; GBardy, RSR 15, 1925, 167f; 18, 1928, 344; PJoüon, ibid. 438ff; AFridrichsen, SymbOsl 13, ’34, 40: ‘thunderstrokes’; JMontgomery, JBL 56, ’37, 51f; B-D-F §162, 6. (The difficulty pert. to the vowels of Boa is not yet solved; s. ThNöldeke, GGA 1884, 1022f. Nor is it certain that rges=רֶגֶשׁ; Kautzsch points to רְגַז wrath, which would make the word mean the hot-tempered. Wlh.² ad loc. draws attention to the name Ragasbal. Schulthess first cj. benē reḥēm=fratres uterini, full brothers, then benē regeš=partisans, adherents. JRook, JBL 100, ’81, 94f attributes the problem to a transliteration technique involving an ayin/gamma change.—Pairs of brothers or sisters known by a special name: AKrappe: Amicitiae Corolla 133–46.)