ὑπέρακμος

ὑπέρακμος
ὑπέρακμος, ον (Soranus, Hesych., Suda) fr. ἀκμή=highest point or prime of a person’s development (ἀκ. in this sense in Pla., Rep. 5, 460e; Philo, Leg. All. 1, 10) in our lit. only 1 Cor 7:36. Depending on one’s understanding of this pass. (s. γαμίζω) the term may apply either to a woman or to a man.
① Understood temporally and as a status term applied to a woman: past one’s prime, past marriageable age, past the bloom of youth (cp. Soranus p. 15, 8.—Diod S 32, 11, 1 speaks of the ἀκμὴ τῆς ἡλικίας of a woman and in 34 + 35 Fgm. 2, 39 uses ἀκμή of the youthful bloom of a παρθένος.—Lycon [III B.C.], Fgm. 27 Wehrli [in Diog. L. 5, 65], commiserates the father of a παρθένος who, because of the smallness of her dowry ἐκτρέχουσα [=goes beyond] τὸν ἀκμαῖον τῆς ἡλικίας καιρόν). So e.g. Tyndale, Phillips, KJV, Jerusalem Bible.
② Other interpreters focus on the ascensive force of ὑπέρ, ‘exceedingly’ (freq. found in compounds, as in ὑπέρκαλος ‘exceedingly beautiful’ and related terms Pollux 3, 71). In our pass., then, ὑπέρακμος means at one’s sexual peak and may be applied to a woman (so, apparently, L-S-J-M ‘sexually well developed’) or to a man (cp. Diod S 36, 2, 3 ὁ ἔρως of a man in love ἤκμαζεν and became irresistible), with strong passions (REB and NRSV ‘if his passions are strong’).—Cp. DELG s.v. ἀκ-p. 44. M-M.

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