Middle and Passive Aorist and Future forms
Paul S Dixon
dixonps at juno.com
Thu Dec 12 16:12:00 EST 2002
On Thu, 12 Dec 2002 12:10:40 -0600 "Carl W. Conrad"
<cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> writes:
> Forwarded for George Somsel <Polycarp66 at aol.com>
> Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2002 10:49:54 EST
> Subject: [b-greek] Re: Middle and Passive Aorist and Future forms
>
> In a message dated 12/12/2002 10:41:55 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> dixonps at juno.com writes:
>
> >You came up with 297. After Iver's post I decided to do a search
> on
> >Peter, James and John with the same criteria and got 31 hits. Of
> those
> >there were 7 occurrences of AKOLOUQEIN, one occurrence of TIQHMI,
> one
> >aorist passive. Hence 9 out of 31 hits had to be discarded as not
> being
> >future passive forms, leaving 22 future passives.
> >
> >I'd be curious to see what you get doing an Accordance search using
> your
> >same criteria on Peter, James, and John and manually check the
> results.
> >I can't imagine you'd get different results. If you get the same
> as I,
> >then surely the total NT count must be significantly less than our
> 296 or
> >297, something closer to 200.
> >
> >Am just trying to get to the bottom of this and not desiring to
> prove
> >anybody right or wrong. Please continue your patience. Thanks.
> >
>
>
> Since you're using Logos software, I'll speak on the subject due to
> the
> fact that I also use it. I would suggest that you simply do a
> morphological search for aorist middle, aorist passive and future
> middle
> and future passive forms without specifying any lemma. It should
> work
> though I haven't tried that specific search (I've done other
> similar
> searches). I would suggest that you do each search separately so
> you can
> have the categories separated into their own lists.
George, Carl:
I did a morphological search on the future passive forms, as suggested.
I got 295 hits. I had overlooked future passive indicative forms, such
as ANAPANSONTAI (Rev 14:13). That would account for the difference
between 271 and 295.
Much thanks.
Paul Dixon
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