hUPER TWN ONTWN
Ken Smith
kens at 180solutions.com
Tue Mar 20 14:21:26 EST 2001
ONTWN is the present participle, masculine plural genitive of EIMI.
hUPER TWN ONTWN hWDE means "for those who are here."
Out of curiosity, where's the quote from? Sounds vaguely like something
from one of the accounts of the Feeding of the 5000.
Ken Smith
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Justin Richmond [mailto:jrichmond at cafes.net]
> Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 11:13 AM
> To: Biblical Greek
> Subject: [b-greek] hUPER TWN ONTWN
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>
> Hello
>
> I'm having trouble with my reader. It isn't a passage from
> the Bible so Zerwick (I'm assuming) won't have it. The
> passage is, "POQEN ARXOMEQA ARTOUS hEUREIN hIKANOUS hUPER TWN
> ONTWN hWDE" where Q=theta and X=xi. It's the "hUPER TWN
> ONTWN" I'm having trouble with: the "TWN ONTWN" because I
> don't know what it means and I can't find it in my lexicons,
> and the "hUPER" because of context ("from where shall we
> begin to find bread sufficient 'hUPER TWN ONTWN' here).
> Please help J.D. Richmond
>
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