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DISPUTE
RECORD.
One scholarly question. Every attached source. The present editorial state, without pretending the last word has been written.
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Does Galatians 5:20 prove hatis always meant explosive anger?
No single verse can establish an invariant meaning. Galatians aligns plural hatiza with Greek thumoi, while other biblical contexts use orgē and Ephesians 4:31 does not permit a clean one-to-one choice. The exact semantic center of ordinary Gothic remains underdetermined by translation texts.
WORD UNDER REVIEWDISPUTE 396
hatis
/ˈha.tis/ · Gothic neuter noun
A Gothic noun conventionally glossed hate, hatred, anger, or wrath. Project Wulfila reports fifteen corpus tokens in three surface forms: hatis, hatiza, and hatize. Its fourteen biblical tokens translate Greek wrath vocabulary rather than supplying a clean mirror of modern personal dislike: Streitberg maps the family chiefly to orgē, assigns Galatians 5:20 to thumos, and leaves Ephesians 4:31 unresolved because both Greek nouns stand together. The visible Gothic paradigm is also historical evidence: Project Wulfila treats hatis as a neuter a-stem, while Fulk analyzes it as an inherited i-stem transferred to the a-stems.
01DIRECT CLAIM EVIDENCE
2 SOURCES WITH A STANCE
A citation is not a vote. Each record says whether the work supports, challenges, contradicts, or contextualizes the position—and identifies the exact locus used.
SOURCE 01supportshistorical dictionary
Die gotische Bibel — Wörterbuch entry hatis
Demonstrates why one verse cannot define the entire semantic field.
p. 55, thumos only at Galatians 5:20; otherwise orgē with Ephesians 4:31 doubtful- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Wilhelm Streitberg
- YEAR
- 1910
- PUBLISHER
- Carl Winter · Project Wulfila digital edition
SOURCE 02supportsresearch database
Gothic Bible word analysis — Galatians 5:20, hatiza
Shows the plural token in the wrath-list context.
Galatians 5:20 A and B hatiza aligned with Greek thumoi- AUTHOR / EDITOR
- Project Wulfila editors · Wilhelm Streitberg
- YEAR
- 2026
- PUBLISHER
- Project Wulfila · University of Antwerp
02 / EDITORIAL STATE
THE QUESTION REMAINS OPEN.
- CONFIDENCE
- probable
- STATUS
- open
- LEGACY SOURCE SUMMARY
- The Greek-Gothic alignment demonstrates contextual translation, not a complete monolingual semantic field.
WHY NO RESOLUTIONThe reviewed evidence does not yet warrant collapsing the competing or incomplete analyses into one secure answer.