Luke 19:11 and grammatical marking

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Thu Apr 18 16:10:49 EDT 2002


          Mike Sangrey <msangrey at BlueFeltHat.org>
     Sent from the Internet (Details)

  AKOUONTWN DE AUTWN TAUTA PROSQEIS EIPEN PARABOLHN DIA TO EGGUS EINAI
  IEROUSALHM AUTON KAI DOKEIN AUTOUS hOTI PARAXRHMA MELLEI hH BASILEIA TOU
  QEOU ANAFAINESQAI

  What I'm really after is in the phrase:
     DIA TO EGGUS EINAI IEROUSALHM AUTON

  IEROUSALHM is indeclinable.  But, if you were creating a database which
  required you to grammatically label it, with what case would you label
  it?

Mike, Accordance locates IEROUSALHM in this instance as genitive. According to BAGD it is common to use EGGUS with the genitive for local functions. BAGD also gives the dative as an option when EGGUS is local.

It is really used here as an adverbial genitive of place and also at John 11:54. It can be used as a dative of place (some say "locative") such as Acts 9:38 EGGUS . . . THi IOPPHi.

Carlton Winbery 
Louisiana



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