Musings about the Greek word for Crown.

[ewq1938]

Corona means crown because the virus has this things sticking out of it that kind of look like little crowns. They also act like suction cups to bind themselves to cells in your body.

Rev 12:3 And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

G1238
d?a´d?µa
diade¯ma
dee-ad'-ay-mah
From a compound of G1223 and G1210; a “diadem” (as bound about the head): - crown. Compare G4735.
Total KJV occurrences: 3


The root words are G1223 and G1210:

1223 is DIA means the channel of an act; through.

A channel is also a pathway which is related to the word Pathogen.

1210 is DEO means to bind (in various applications, literally or figuratively)


The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon:

Strong's Number: 1210
deo a root
Phonetic Spelling
deh'-o Verb
Definition

to bind tie, fasten
to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains
metaph.
Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright
to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc. 1b
to be bound to one, a wife, a husband
to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit

Like the example of demon entering a person and causing physical adversities, so too does a virus enter a person and cause physical issues in this metaphorical type of binding.


www.salon.com/2020/02/27/why-covid-19-is-more-insidious-than-other-coronaviruses/

"The Nankai University researchers suggest that COVID-19's ability to bind to cells is as much as 1,000 times greater than SARS' ability. Like COVID-19, SARS is also a coronavirus. As explained by the South China Morning Post, SARS and the novel coronavirus share about 80 percent of their genetic structure."


Now, I am not saying Revelation predicted the Corona virus but I do think these similarities are interesting.

 

[nonaeroterraqueous]

μπάλα με κολλώδη πράγματα
bála me kollódi prágmata
(ball with sticky things)

Just doesn't have the same ring to it.

 

[com7fy8]

It has become the king of many people's attention. So, it has infected many more people, in their hearts and minds, than medical statistics would show.

 

[ewq1938]

Added this to the OP:

The NAS New Testament Greek Lexicon:

Strong's Number: 1210
deo a root
Phonetic Spelling
deh'-o Verb
Definition

to bind tie, fasten
to bind, fasten with chains, to throw into chains
metaph.
Satan is said to bind a woman bent together by means of a demon, as his messenger, taking possession of the woman and preventing her from standing upright
to bind, put under obligation, of the law, duty etc. 1b
to be bound to one, a wife, a husband
to forbid, prohibit, declare to be illicit

Like the example of demon entering a person and causing physical adversities, so too does a virus enter a person and cause physical issues in this metaphorical type of binding.