Temporal Adj in nominative

c stirling bartholomew cc.constantine at worldnet.att.net
Sat Aug 10 15:25:18 EDT 2002


Temporal Adj.  in nominative

Homer (Monro #162) and Classical Greek (Smyth #1042) both use an idiom which
sounds strange to native speakers of English. It is an adjective which
appears to limit the predicate like an adverb (e.g. temporal)  but it agrees
in case, and number with the subject.

There are a few cases of this in the NT (see A.T. Robertson p. 657).

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ACTS 28:13 hOQEN PERIELONTES KATHNTHSAMEN EIS hRHGION. KAI META MIAN hHMERAN
EPIGENOMENOU NOTOU DEUTERAIOI HLQOMEN EIS POTIOLOUS,

DEUTERAIOI here agrees with the subject of HLQOMEN.

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A better example is found in:

LUKE 24:22 ALLA KAI GUNAIKES TINES EX hHMWN EXESTHSAN hHMAS, GENOMENAI
ORQRINAI EPI TO MNHMEION,

Here ORQRINAI agrees with GUNAIKES.

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Note that this idiom is not really limited to temporal adverbials, it can
also be found with other adverbials, for example:

2COR. 8:17 hOTI THN MEN PARAKLHSIN EDEXATO, SPOUDAIOTEROS DE hUPARCWN
AUQAIRETOS EXHLQEN PROS hUMAS.

where AUQAIRETOS is an adverbial of manner.

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BTW, I ran into this idiom reading Homer.

Clay 



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