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>
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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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