mood of PLATUNAI in Gen 9.27

Clwinbery at aol.com Clwinbery at aol.com
Mon Nov 18 10:33:09 EST 2002



In a message dated 11/18/02 1:23:26 AM, slovullo at mac.com writes:

>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?

Steven, I agree with you. I encourage to send this to Gramcord as we have 
discovered several such mis-locations for the LXX. They are making 
corrections.

This is one of those places where accents help. Normally when the last two 
letters of a word are AI, it is considered short but not in this case. This 
marks it as Aor. act. opt. 3rd sing. The accent distinguishes it from 
PLA/TUNAI (mid. second sing) and PLATU=NAI (act inf). The loss of the Sigma 
due to the liquid Nu creates the difficulties of location.

Grace,

Carlton Winbery
Louisiana College



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