[B-Greek] BAINEIN?
Mark Lama
markosl80 at yahoo.com
Sun Aug 24 13:36:54 EDT 2003
"Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu> wrote:
At 12:29 PM -0400 8/24/03, Glenn wrote:
>Hello,
>
>I'm currently working through some exercises in an intermediate Greek book
>(Black).
>One of the exercises has the word BAINEIN in it. From the sentence (and the
>answer key) I would assume that it is some form of "come". EIN obviously
>makes it infinitive, but I can't find the root in my lexicon. Has anyone
>ever come across this word?
BAINW, inf. BAINEIN (present tense) means most basically to spread the
legs, usually to stride forwarded, so that BAINW and its compounds usually
does mean "come" or "go." But the word can also mean "mount" as in "mount a
horse" (esp. in the compounded form ANABAINW). It is, in fact, one of the
most common verbs in the Greek language., although perhaps more often seen
in a compounded than in the uncompounded form.
--
[Mark]
In fact, BAINW never occurs in the NT as a simple uncompounded verb. Nevertheless, it occurs in the vocabularies of NT Greek textbooks because of the importance of its numerous compounds in the NT (ANABAINW, KATABAINW, EMBAINW, EPIBAINW, etc.), and also because it is famously irregular ( fut. BHSOMAI, MI- verb type [athematic] aorist EBHN). It is easier to understand the forms of [-]BAINW if you remember that the root is BA, with a derived present stem BAIN-.
CARIS KAI EIRHNH,
Mark Lama
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