You are right, it’s not an impersonal subject but an indefinit subject (Duden 4: Grammatik).But I think Luthers Translation isn’t odd:(my Paraphrase:)“Your soul will be taken tonight, and you are worrying about your possessions?”Statistics: Posted by …
One word, two origins:1: Egyptian origin : = barge2; Indogermanic origin: = Castle, large house (cf. German “Burg”, Dutch: “burcht” = castle, stronghold)Not a rare phenomenon in languages.Statistics: Posted by Jean Putmans — Wed Mar 27, 2024 5:32 am
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Having looked at the Tauchnitz New Testament that MacDonald mentions, I think that one possibility is that he means Matthew 17:21 and Mark 9:29. Matthew 17:21: “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”The apparatus lists S*V as omit…
In Job 9:9 the idea has already occurred as ταμιεῖα νότου, “chamber of the south/south-wind”. As this southern “chamber” is not a Greek ideaWell there is ἕδρα (hédra) cf. חדר ἕδρα (LSJ)sitting place, seat, chair, in pl, quarters of the sky in which o…
Oh, it’s just spitballing. I suspect that others here could give other theories, and hopefully will.Statistics: Posted by jeidsath — Sun Dec 24, 2023 9:13 pm
The ZIP-file is also available at:https://github.com/JeanLCP/NT-GREEK-MS-TRANSCRIPTIONSStatistics: Posted by Jean Putmans — Thu Feb 08, 2024 9:15 am
I think it’s simply because at some time, οι and υ began to be pronounced the same way, /i/. Actually, in modern Greek, ι η υ οι ει υι are all pronounced /i/.Statistics: Posted by Paul Derouda — Sat Aug 26, 2023 6:56 am
For those who may be interested, here are pdf files of the Philokalia in Greek:https://greekphilokalia.wordpress.com/Statistics: Posted by bedwere — Fri Sep 29, 2023 5:43 pm
Having looked at the Tauchnitz New Testament that MacDonald mentions, I think that one possibility is that he means Matthew 17:21 and Mark 9:29. Matthew 17:21: “Howbeit this kind goeth not out but by prayer and fasting.”The apparatus lists S*V as omit…
No problem! The first 2 chapters of the Cambridge grammar cover these and similar issues, and there are some other explanations scattered elsewhere – see section 1.68 for τόνς. Unfortunately I don’t have anything with a detailed description of the dev…
βαρις and πυργόβαρις are only attested in the Septuagint and JosephusThe biggest difficulty with the word origin is that this isn’t true. The LSJ mentions the two authors in Herodianus, “λέγεται βάρις ἡ οἰκία, ὡς Ποσείδιππος, καὶ ἡ συνοικία ὡς Ἔφορος….
This passage isn’t quite like those other passages. The ones in your first list have the form ποιεῖν τινα +adj./subst. predicate, which is ποιεῖν.III in the LSJ. That is the “render so and so” type of use I mentioned.In your second list, one of these …
I see this forum is mostly discussing biblical Greek, but personally I’m mostly interested in Byzantine texts. I’m currently reading Etymologiarum by Isidore of Seville, and finding it very interesting and legible. I’d love to find something similar i…
One of the main uses of ποιεῖν is to “cause” things to be in a certain state or to happen.If I take this at face value. None of these passages follow that rule: John 5:18; John 8:53; John 10:33; John 19:7, 12; 1 John 1:10; 1 John 5:10; https://www.bib…
That particular story is original with Matthew, I suspect, and the usage of δηνάριον in Mark would be sufficient to explain Matthew’s word choices, as Matthew is trying to both retell and imitate Mark. Besides, Matthew is writing late, after the 70 A….
Ἐκβάτανα is Persian, not Greek, and the various transliterations are attempts at representing the Persian. No need to bring in ἐκβαίνω/ἀποβαίνω at all.Statistics: Posted by Chris Weimer — Thu Mar 28, 2024 12:50 pm
I think that the reader is probably supposed to understand the imagined event as a type spoken persuasion. But all the Greek says is that the beast “will make them so they’ll get put to death”. It’s not precise. Did the author imagine the beast orderi…
New Testament Grammars have very little justification to exist outside of a religious belief that this collection of books of fairly varied language and style and authorship has some sort of grammatical unity imposed by God. This is not an idea that m…
The INTF and the IGNTP both have a lot of manuscript-transcriptions, but it is not possible on their Websites to search a specific reading in all transcriptions.So I collected all available Transcripts of both institutes and built a kind of raw databa…
If you’re wondering why the accents are different in this case, my understanding is that it’s because of how the endings were derived. τοῦ and τούς are like second declension nouns and adjectives which are accented on the last syllable, e.g. ἀγρός.In …