Incidence of article with NT names

Steven Cox scox at Mail.Sparkice.COM.CN
Wed Jun 16 20:38:58 EDT 1999


Dear b-greekers
I was sent the following stats on NT article use with names

Word total      %w.art. %w/o art.
Abraham 72      16.4   83.6
Moses 79        16.46  83.54
David 58        8.6    91.40
Elijah 29       0      100
John 34         11.8   88.2
Petros 92       56.5   43.5
Satanas 37      86.49  13.51

Q1. Over this number of samples is there any statistical significance in
Petros and Satanas?
(Bearing in mind that Peter often heads the lists of the 12  disciples and
his name occurs more often on its own in prominence?)

Q2. If it is statistically significant then does the article use tell us
anything about Petros and (more so) Satanas related to other proper nouns?

Wild guesses:
e.g. Petros has article more often because it can exist in plural (but can
Satanas exist in plural? I thought once or twice in PMG but can find no
trace in Bauer)
e.g. Satanas is influenced by Hebrew? (but I thought in Hebrew PNs didn't
take the article?)

Anyone care to comment?
Steven
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