Cognate analysis: authentes, authentikos, authentia, authentein

Mike walks through cognates: (1) authentes — in Classical Greek meant 'murderer/perpetrator,' but by the Koine period had shifted to 'master/authority figure'; (2) authentikos — from which English gets 'authentic,' meaning genuine, authoritative, original; (3) authentia — authority, sovereignty; (4) authentein — the infinitive form used in 1 Tim 2:12. Al Wolters' research shows that in non-Atticist Koine texts, the word family consistently carries meanings related to authority, mastery, and genuineness — not domination, violence, or murder. The negative Classical meanings had largely fallen out of common use by the 1st century AD.