Jerusalem

Jim West jwest at highland.net
Sun Sep 24 20:44:25 EDT 2000


At 11:39 AM 9/24/00 -0500, you wrote:
>Greetings B-Greek List,
>
>I have a question regarding John 2:23.
>My question has to do with the plural form of Jerusalem.
>
>I noticed that it is in the dative but why is it plural?  I am not having
>any luck with my commentaries or
>lexicons.  I don't believe that there is any theological reason that it
>should be plural,  or is there?

because in hebrew it is yerushalayim.... a dual form.  rendered in greek in
the plural because there is no dual in greek.

its that simple.


best,

jim
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