mood of PLATUNAI in Gen 9.27
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Nov 18 15:32:28 EST 2002
At 10:33 AM -0500 11/18/02, Clwinbery at aol.com wrote:
>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.
Wouldn't the middle 2nd sg. aor. be PLATU/NW?
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