1 John 5:15

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Sun Jun 9 00:30:59 EDT 2002


In a message dated 6/8/02 11:10:11 PM Central Daylight Time, 
danserve4x at yahoo.com writes:

> From 1 John 5:15 -
>  
>  hOTI AKOUEI hHMWN
>  
>  In Parson's Greek Tutor when it asked me to translate
>  the correct choice was "that he hears us."
>  
>  What I don't understand here is why this is hHMWN and
>  not hHMAS.  When I first looked at it I was saying
>  "that he hears our" because hHMWN is the genitive. 
>  For it to be translated "us" I would think it would be
>  accusative.
>  
>  So what am I overlooking?
>  
The dictionaries will tell you that AKOUW can take what looks to us like a 
dir. obj. in either the accusative case (of things mostly) or the genitive 
(of persons and things). See BDAG for instance where ample examples are given 
of both usages.

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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