prin Abraam genesthai egw eimi awohili at aol.com awohili at aol.com Tue Apr 16 22:57:47 EDT 2002 Dative in 2 Peter 1:5 prin Abraam genesthai egw eimi Paul, in _A New Syntax of the Verb in New Testament Greek: An Aspectual Approach_, Kenneth L. McKay (Peter Lang Publishing, Inc., New York 1994) calls this…
I’ve got a grammar question here. In Luke 8:20, it is said of Jesus APHGGELH DE AUTW (And it was reported to him). The construction of APHGGELH is singular, but does that assume a singular person doing the reporting? OOW, if several people were saying it, would APHGGELH have to take a plural form? To…
[bible passage=”John 4:2″]
[bible passage=”1 John 4:2″] 1 John 4:2: KAI PAN PNEUMA hO hOMOLEGEI IHSOUN CRISTON EN SARKI ELHLUTOTA EK TOU QEOU ESTIN. 2 John 7: hOTI POLLOI PLANOI EXHLQON EIS TON KOSMON, hOI MH hOMOLOGOUNTES IHSOUN CRISTON ERCOMENON EN SARKI …. All the translations I have been able to check except Moffat take IHSOUN CRISTON EN…
[bible passage=”2 Thess 2:15″] In his commentary on 2 Thessalonians, W. Marxsen claims that since 2:15 εἴτε δι’ ἐπιστολὴς ἡμῶν lacks an article (as in εἴτε δι’ τῆς ἐπιστολὴς ἡμῶν) it does not refer back to a specific letter (e.g., to 1 Thessalonians) but is meant in a general sense to refer to any ole…
[bible passage=”Acts 19:39″] Hey everyone Thanks for letting me join I want people to check out this part of a letter I had written. So now I want to read out of the New Strong’s concordance what it says on this word. ” was used among the Greeks of a body of citizens “gathered” to…
[bible passage=”John 19:31″] A clause in John 19:31 reads: ἵνα μὴ μείνῃ ἐπὶ τοῦ σταυροῦ τὰ σώματα ἐν τῷ σαββάτῳ hINA MH MEINHi EPI TOU STAUROU TA SWMATA EN TWi SABBATWi My question is, when we have TA SWMATA (plural) as the subject, how should I take the singular verb MEINHi? May I see other…
[bible passage=”Luke 10:28″] I’m trying to determine if there is any real difference between PLHSION (in Luke 10:28,30) and GEITWN in Luke 15:9. I’m wondering,k having looked at both BDAG and Louw-Nida, if there is any real difference between these two . It’s unclear to me that FILAS and GEITONAS in Luke 15:9 are meant…
[bible passage=”John 6:39″] I was surprised that the apparatus in UBS 3rd ed doesn’t show that there is indeed a difference in “ANASTASW AUTO” between its reading and the majority text. The majority text has “AUTON” but I would not have known this except that I was reading a book that rendered the verse AUTO…
[bible passage=”Matthew 22:34″] If “to auto” here does not refer to Jesus being neuter who/what does it refer to?
[] TO PNEUMA KAI hH YUCH in 1 Thessalonians 5:23–Are theysynonyms? Leonard Jayawardena leonardj at live.com Sat Jun 19 05:43:54 EDT 2010 [] ARNOUME [] TO PNEUMA KAI hH YUCH in 1 Thessalonians 5:23–Aretheysynonyms? 1 Thessalonians 5:23: hOLOKLHRON hUMWN TO PNEUMA KAI hH YUCH KAI TO SWMA AMEMPTWS … THRHQEIH. Is there any grammatical…
[bible passage=”Philippians 1:27″] Ladies and Gentlemen: I am perplexed and perhaps a little cynical about the concept of “attraction” in Koine Greek. One example [among several] occurs in Philippians 1:27-28 where, in Mounce’s Graded Reader, he quotes Fee (NICNT) saying that the hHTIS in v28 refers back to the preceding clause refers back to the…
Tense of TETAGMENOI in Acts 13:48 clayton stirling bartholomew c.s.bartholomew at worldnet.att.net Thu Jul 1 00:47:32 EDT 1999 KJV titles not available > Greetings everyone:> > I would appreciate some help in understanding the use of verb tense in> dependent clauses. The text reads; …KAI EPISTEUSAN OSOI HSAN> TETAGMENOI EIS ZWHN AIWNION. I take the…
[] Mt 28:19 AUTOUS EIS TO ONOMA Don Dwight dddwight1234 at sbcglobal.net Wed Oct 3 18:59:38 EDT 2007 [] PAS in Colossians 1:15-20 and tense in v.20 [] Mt 28:19 AUTOUS EIS TO ONOMA Does Mt 28:19 contain the double accusative construction?Mt 28:16 οἱ δὲ ἕνδεκα μαθηταὶ ἐπορεύθησαν εἰς τὴν Γαλιλαίαν εἰς τὸ ὄρος οὗ…
[bible passage=”Romans 3:3″] PISTIS vs PISTOS I don’t believe there is a separate Greek word for “faithfulness” in the N.T.; at least I don’t see one. That being said, it would seem to me that if Paul or any other N.T. author intended for an existing word like PISTIS or PISTOS to be used to…
[bible passage=”Romans 16:1″] Greetings to all: I’ve been wandering recently, about the use of the word “deacon” (noun masc. sing.) in Romans 16:1-2 in reference to Phoebe who was a woman. How common of usage that was in the Biblical Greek language? Does it stand out as wrong or was it commonly applied that way?…
1 Corinthians 11:33 Dear list, CAIREIN I am trying to look at I Cor. 11:33 from every angle. If we focus on the infinitive, what is the purpose of EIS TO with purpose infinitive in this verse? I was admonished by one grammar to not forget Meyer’s dictum that EIS with the articular…
Jesus’ use of AMHN LEGW SOI Dan Parker stoixein at sdf.lonestar.org Mon Jun 4 12:08:17 EDT 2001 Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary Luke 4:40 Dear B-GREEKER’s,Please note all instances of “Truly I say to you” in the New AmericanStandard Bible where a _specific time_ is denoted in the same verse.Matthew 26:34 Jesus said to him, “Truly I…
[bible passage=”Luke 22:70″]
[bible passage=”John 2:12″] Greetings ers — I am looking at the textual note for John 2:12 in my UBS GNT, 4th revised edition. The first manuscript listed for the first variant is a curlicue P (meaning papyrus) with superscript 66c. I see P66 in the table at the front of the book, but I’m wondering…
