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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