Predicate vs Attributive use of Article

Steven Craig Miller scmiller at www.plantnet.com
Mon Feb 7 13:31:58 EST 2000


To: Mike Sangrey,

<< In Eph 4:22 we have: TAS EPIQUMIAS THS APATHS. Does the difference 
between predicate and attributive apply to nouns in the genitive case? >>

Smyth-Messing [1956] (sec. 1161) notes that a genitive of a substantive 
(noun), which limits another substantive, may take any one of four positions:

(a) TO TOU PATROS BIBLION,
(b) TO BIBLION TO TOU PATROS,
(c) TOU PATROS TO BIBLION, &
(d) TO BIBLION TOU PATROS
(all meaning "father's book").

Smyth-Messing notes that 'a' & 'd' are very common, and 'b' is less common.

-Steven Craig Miller
Alton, Illinois (USA)
scmiller at www.plantnet.com
FWIW: I'm neither a clergy-person, nor an academic (and I have no post-grad 
degrees).




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