Please..are any specialists in languages around here?when did the words ''image ''and ''create'' appear?Thanks

Question

I mean when ..along the history?

I guess the word ''image'' has appeared when the Tv was invented..can you tell me?

and i guess the word ''create '' appeared no sooner then the Renaissance appear ..can you tell me?

i graduated languages and literatures, but my speciality was the literature , not the languages..

Answer 1

I gather this relates to your earlier question about translations of Genesis. In one of your edits to that question you wrote:

"because in my ortodox bible..my first bible since 1688..many words are different..
what means "made"; doesn't mean "created" in all respects. . ."

It is important not to conflate the timeline of the development of specific words in English with either (i) the timeline of the development of analogous words in another language or (ii) the timeline of the development of the concept underlying those words. You appear to be conflating all three. Whether or not these specific words existed and/or were used in the same way in English in 1688 as in English today does not say much, if anything, about whether the concepts existed in England in 1688 (they certainly did), and says even less about whether those concepts, and words for those concepts, existed thousands of years earlier in another language in another part of the world (and yes, the words and concepts certainly did exist in biblical Hebrew.)

As to the specific issue of translating the biblical Hebrew for "create" vs "make", you should know that biblical Hebrew has both these words and concepts: "bara" (created) and "asah" ("made" or "did"), as well as "yatzar" (formed) and "banah" (built). All are used in Genesis chapter I, and the way they are used there makes clear that the conceptual and linguistic distinction between "create" and "make" does exist in Genesis.

For "image" and "likeness", several nuanced words also appear in biblical Hebrew: "tzelem" and "d'moot" come to mind. I am not sure what you mean that "image" (in English) would not have come into existence until TV. The word itself is at least 800 years old in English, and comes from the Latin (via French) word "imago" meaning basically the same thing.

Answer 2

Image dates to the 13th century, create to the 14th.
The Renaissance didn't really make it to England before the 16th century.

Answer 3

Image: Around the 13th century... from anglo-french

Create: 14th century


I would take credit but I got it from m-w.com lol

Answer 4

Create started when people knew creation. It appeared in the Era of Alchemy.

Image was created when the first camera was created. You know, the black-and-white one.