KAI

George Goolde goolde at mtnempire.net
Wed Oct 13 22:49:43 EDT 1999


Friends,

I agree with Clayton distinction between uses of KAI.  I have chosen to 
identify three uses:

	1.	KAI can be connecting.  This is what Clayton calls a "clause initial 
KAI."  It has, I believe, very much the same force as DE.

	2.	KAI can be adjunctive.  In this use the coordinate aspect of the 
English "and" is emphasized.  It adds one thing to another, things of equal 
grammatical weight (two nouns, two verbs, two phrases, two clauses, etc).

	3.	KAI can be ascensive.  In this use it does not introduce an additional 
element, but heightens the meaning of the previous element.  This is the 
use where KAI is often translated "even."

	I note in passing that we are taught in English grammar that we ought not 
begin a sentence with and, nor end it with a preposition.  Ending a 
sentence with a preposition is one of those grammatical errors up with 
which I will not put!  But beginning a sentence with KAI seems to be 
perfectly acceptable Greek judging by the number of times it occurs.  And 
perhaps English is coming along . . .

George


George A. Goolde
Professor, Bible and Theology
Southern California Bible College & Seminary
El Cajon, California

goolde at mtnempire.net



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