- μετεωρίζομαι
- μετεωρίζομαι (μετέωρος ‘in mid-air’) fut. 3 sg. μετεωρισθήσεται Mi 4:1; aor. 3 pl. μετεωρίσθησαν LXX; gener. ‘be lifted up, be elevated’ (Aristoph. et al. in sense ‘raise up’; pap, LXX, Philo, Joseph.) in our lit. only once, pass. and fig. μὴ μετεωρίζεσθε Lk 12:29. In the context this can hardly mean anything other than do not be anxious, worried (the verb has this meaning Polyb. 5, 70, 10; POxy 1679, 16 μὴ μετεωρίζου, καλῶς διάγομεν=do not worry, we are getting along well; Jos., Ant. 16, 135.—Like w. the adj. μετέωρος=‘hovering between hope and fear, in suspense, restless, anxious’: Thu. 2, 8, 1; Polyb. 3, 107, 6; BGU 417, 4; 6 [opp. ἀμέριμνος]; cp. our ‘be up in the air’ about someth.). The alternate transl. be overbearing, presumptuous, though possible on purely linguistic grounds (Diod S 13, 80, 1; 13, 92, 2; cp. Simplicius in Epict. p. 32, 13 μετεωρισμός=pride), supported by the LXX, and favored by Vulg., Luther (altered since the revision of 1975), Tyndale et al., can no longer be seriously considered.—AHarnack, Sprüche u. Reden Jesu 1907, 10; KKöhler, StKr 86, 1913, 456ff.—DELG s.v. 1 ἀείρω. M-M. TW. Spicq.
Ελληνικά-Αγγλικά παλαιοχριστιανική Λογοτεχνία. 2015.