STRONGS G993:
Βοανεργές ([R G, so Suidas (ed. Gaisf. 751 a.); but]
L T Tr WH Βοανηργές),
Boanerges, Hebrew
רֶגֶשׁ בֲּנֵי i. e. sons of thunder (as Mark himself explains it), [the name given by our Lord to James and John the sons of Zebedee]:
Mark 3:17;
בְּ pronounced
Boa as N
oabhyim for N
ebhyim; see
Lightfoot Horae Hebrew at the passage;
רֶגֶשׁ, in
Psalm 55:15 a tumultuous crowd, seems in Syriac to have signified
thunder; so that the name
Βοανηργές seems to denote fiery and destructive zeal that may be likened to a thunderstorm, and to make reference to the occurrence narrated in
Luke 9:54. [Cf. Dr. James Morison's Commentary on Mark at the passage cited;
Kautzsch, Gram. d. Biblical-Aram., p. 9.]
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