[B-Greek] ALLWi ... hETERWi
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Aug 25 06:11:21 EDT 2003
At 7:07 PM -0700 8/24/03, waldo slusher wrote:
>ALLWi DE ENERGHMATA DUNAMEWN, ALLWi PROFHTEIA, ALLWi
>DIAKRISEIS PNEUMATWN, hETERWi GENH GLWSSWN, ALLWi DE
>hERMHNEIA GLWSSWN (1 Cor. 12,10)
>
>There seems to be a preference in the GNT for ALLOS
>over hETEROS, as here. Is ALLOS the "default" word for
>"another"? If so, why?
See BDF §306 (pp. 160-161); in older Greek hETEROS was only used of a
relationship between two persons or items; in NT Koine ALLOS is used often
where hETEROS would have been appropriate earlier.BDAG offers for hETEROS:
"1. pert. to being distinct from some other item implied or mentioned, other
a. other of two, contrasting a definite person or thing w. another
b. of more than two"
where usage a. is classical and not very common in the GNT (Luke, as might
be expected, has it more than other NT writers), usage b. is much more
frequent.
>On hETERWi GENH GLWSSWN:
>Does the use of all three genders here hETERWi (M)
>GENH (N) GLWSSWN (F) strike anyone as unusual?
You're mixing things in this last phrase that shouldn't be mixed: hETERWi
is the dative of distribution parallel to ALLWi in the previous phrases,
while GENH GLWSSWN is the subject; the genders of GENH and GLWSSWN are the
standard genders of the nouns being used.; you might note that the same
M-N-F arrangement is discernible in the first phrase ALLWi (m), ENERGHMATA
(n.), DUNAMEWN (f)--but that fact, although true, isn't really relevant, so
far as I can see, either to the rhetoric or essential meaning of the text.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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