participle case

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Sep 18 10:47:22 EDT 2002


At 7:33 AM -0700 9/18/02, Matthew Ferris wrote:
>Mark 13:6 contains the participle PLANHSOUSIN, and is translated as "will lead
>astray" This, as far as I can tell, is a present active participle (masc/dat
>pl) of the verb PLANAO (I lead astray).
>Why is the word in the dative case?

While this could theoretically be a future dative pl. m/n ptc., it's not;
it's an ordinary 3d pl. future indicative and does indeed mean "will lead
astray."
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