Neuter plurals - singular imperatives

Carl Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Nov 27 09:37:43 EST 2002


> Thanks for the responses, they put me on the right track. I had a QUICK look
> at the LXX and found a couple of relevant examples there.
> 
> Gen 1:20    EXAGAGETW TA UDATA
> Gen 1:22    TA PETEINA PLHQUNESQWSAN
> 
> Apparently the grammatical rule has not been strictly applied by the
> translator of Genesis. If the situation is different in other books (and if
> it is a construction ad sensum: animated vss not animated) goes well beyond
> what I wanted to know in the first place.

Sorry, I assumed your question was about the GNT; I didn't check the LXX.
Certainly these examples from Genesis do show that there's no consistent
observance of the rule of singular verb with a neuter plural subject. But
I
think that's what we observe in the GNT with indicatives: that we
sometimes
have a singular verb with a n.pl. subject and sometimes a plural verb.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
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