Bible Lexicons

With Tob I.13, where the Most High is said to have giver. Tobit χάριν καὶ μορφήν, ";grace and favour (beauty, RV marg.)";in the sight of Enemessar, cf. the forms of salutation P Leid D i. 11 (B.C. 162) (=1. p. 25) περὶ μὲν οὖν τούτων δοι (l. δοίη or δοῖέν) σοι ὁ Σάραπις καὶ ἡ Ἶσις ἐπαφροδισί [α ]ν, χάριν, μορφὴν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα, and ib. K.10 (c. B.C. 99) (= I. p. 52) πα [ρακα ]λῶ δὲ κ [αὶ ] αὐτὸς τοὺς θεούς, ὅπως δῶσιν αὐτοῖς χ [άριν καὶ μο ]ρφ [ὴ ]ν πρὸς τὸν βασιλέα : see also Syll 802 (=.8 1168).119 (c. B.C. 320) νεανίσκον εὐπρεπῆ τὰμ μορφάν, Vett. Val. p. 1.6 ὁ ] . . ἥλιος. . σημαίνει. . ἐπὶ γενέσεως βασιλείαν. . . φρόνησιν, μορφήν, κίνησιν, ὕψος τύχης κτλ., where the editor understands by μορφήν, ";pulchritudinem."; Kennedy (ad Philippians 2:6 in EGT) has shown from the LXX usage that ";the word had come, in later Greek, to receive a vague, general meaning, far removed from the accurate, metaphysical content which belonged to it in writers like Plato and Aristotle."; Hence the meaning must not be over-pressed in the NT occurrences, though μορφή ";always signifies a form which truly and fully expresses the being which underlies it."; This is seen in such passages from the papyri as P Leid Wvii. 9 (ii/iii A.D.) (=II. p. 103) σὲ μόνον ἐπικαλοῦμαι, τὸν μόνον ἐν κόσμῳ διατάξαντα θεοῖς καὶ ἀνθρώποις, τὸν ἑαυτὸν ἀλλάξαντα σεαυτὸν μορφαῖς ἁγίαις καὶ ἐκ μὴ ὄντων εἶναι ποιήσαντα, ib. xiii. 38 (=II. P. 127) ἐπικαλοῦμαί σε, κύριε, ἵνα μοι φάνῃ ἡ ἀλητ (=θ)ινή σου μορφή, and the magic P Lond 121.563 (iii/A.D.) (=I. p. 102) ἧκέ μοι, τὸ πνεῦμα τὸ ἀεροπετές, . . . καὶ ἔμβηθι αὐτοῦ εἰς τὴν ψυχήν, ἵνα τυπώσηται τὴν ἀθάνατον μορφὴν ἐν φωτὶ κραταιῷ καὶ ἀφθάρτῷ. The word is found ter in the rescript of Antiochus I., OGIS 383 (mid. i/B.C.)—.27 μορφῆς μὲν (ε)ἰκόνας παντοίαι τέχνηι. . κοσμήσας, .41 σῶμα μορφῆς ἐμῆς, .60 χαρακτῆρα μορφῆς ἐμῆς. In syll 888 (=.31238).13 (C. A.D. 160) μορφή is combined with the more outward σχῆμα —συγχέαι τῆς μορφῆς καὶ τοῦ σχήματος and in Kaibel 1118 it is used with reference to a corpse—

Μικρὰ μὲν ἡ λίθος ἐστίν, ἔχει δ᾽ ἡδεῖαν ὀπωπήν

ἔνδον τ [ῶ ]ν μορφῶν, ὡς ἰὸν ἐν ταλάροις.

In Epict iv. 5. 19 μορφή is practically equivalent to ἡ ἐκτὸς περιγραφή or σχῆμα : cf. Mark 16:12 where Light-foot (Philippians 2:1-30, p. 129) admits that μορφή ";has no peculiar force,"; but suggests that σχῆμα ";would perhaps be avoided instinctively, as it might imply an illusion or an imposture."; MGr μορφή, μορφιά, ἐμορφιά, ὀμορφιά. Boisacq (p. 645) notes a possible connexion with Lat. forma (by dissimilation from *morguhmā or *mrguhmā), but gives also another hypothesis s.v. μάρπτω (p. 612).

 

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