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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