mood of PLATUNAI in Gen 9.27
Clwinbery at aol.com
Clwinbery at aol.com
Mon Nov 18 16:14:42 EST 2002
In a message dated 11/18/02 2:37:55 PM, cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>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?
Not if I had put Impv. mid. 2nd sg. aor. Can't you read my mind?
Carlton Winbery
Absent minded prof.
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