Luke 19:11 and grammatical marking

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Thu Apr 18 17:19:09 EDT 2002


At 5:03 PM -0400 4/18/02, Polycarp66 at aol.com wrote:
>In a message dated 4/18/2002 4:11:35 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
>Clwinbery at aol.com writes:
>
>>> 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.
>___________________________
>
>Logos likewise indicates that IEROUSALHM is genitive.  Since the form
>hIEROSOLUMA or IEROUSALHM is apparently not used in any case distinction, it
>is interesting that Logos/Accordance and BGAD state so confidently that it is
>genitive.  There are a number of instances listed in both the LXX and the NT
>with dat. following.  I'm wondering why the confidence that  IEROUSALHM is
>gen.   Any ideas?

Well, one good reason is that EGGUS, when it's a preposition, is in fact
more often used with genitive (the ablatival genitive, at that).
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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