mood of PLATUNAI in Gen 9.27

Richard Ghilardi qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
Mon Nov 18 05:04:24 EST 2002


Steven,

This looks right to me. BibleWorks tags this as an aorist active
optative.

Yours in His grace,

Richard Ghilardi -- qodeshlayhvh at juno.com
New Haven, CT USA


On Mon, 18 Nov 2002 01:22:40 -0600 Steven Lo Vullo <slovullo at mac.com>
writes:
> Greetings:
> 
> In Gen 9.27 Accordance tags PLATUNAI as present active indicative. 
> If 
> memory serves me right, though, this is an aorist active optative. 
> In 
> this case PLATUNAI would be a voluntative optative and PLATUNAI hO 
> QEOS 
> TWi IAFEQ would mean something like, "May God make room for 
> Japheth." 
> Does this seem right?




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