"But your argument is ignoring some fundamental facts about the use of languages. One of them is that just because words are related or perhaps even spelled the same does not mean that they mean the same thing. "

GE:
Are you now arguing 'sabbatohn' means 'week'? Then you argue against yourself!

OK, the discussion is interesting, anyway. I am simply unconvinced because of the lack of what I consider valid use of evidence and reasoning. But thanks for your participation.

"1) You do not believe, then, that Lexicons or dictionaries are any kind of evidence as to the meaning of a word? You don't consult them? "

GE:
I think we are talking just to talk. I asked you WHY you insist 'sabbatohn' MUST mean just the one or the other, either 'week', or, 'sabbath' --- or whatever, because I cannot understand you and don't see what I should understand you. I only tell you when the translators in Mt28:1 translate "Sabbath" in phrase a, they are right; and when they translate "week" in phrase b, they are also right. And there is NO other way you or any 'lexicon' is going to make it work or make sense otherwise.

The essence I hoped would be the Divine Truth of the Word of God, that Christ rose from the dead "In Sabbath's-time, on the Sabbath Day, in the fulness of the Sabbath Day, in and with (its) very being light before the First Day of the week"; and NOT, on the First Day of the week as Justin Martyr began to make the world believe and modern 'translations' and 'versions' mutilate the Word of God. That was my point: That the Christian Church should have believed the Seventh Day Sabbath because on it Christ rose from the dead and in and with His resurrection, raised into eternal life the redeemed. That it is a joyful Message of Faith in God in Christ!

Please explain how the essence of the gospel and the necessity of keeping the commandments is changed by believing that Jesus died on Friday and rose on the first day of the week.

I can't agree with the following statement you made about the consequences of believing that Jesus rose on Sunday:



In order for Sunday to part of the New Covenant, it would have had to be part of it BEFORE it was ratified, and the New Covenant was ratified by the blood of Christ at the moment He gave up His life for us. Therefore, the fact that he rose from the dead on Sunday morning has nothing whatever to do with making Sunday a special day under the New Covenant.

No, I am arguing that sabbaton can sometimes mean week depending on the context. There is certainly nothing whatsoever unusual about that.

This is where it would be a good idea to study and be well acquainted with the Greek-English Lexicons.

As you must realize there are many Greek words in the NT whose meaning is determined by the context. One such is the word dikaosunee. See Romans 6:18 and 5:21. The same word can mean either righteousness or justification.