[B-Greek] EPI in Acts 1:21

Polycarp66 at aol.com Polycarp66 at aol.com
Wed Dec 10 22:15:52 EST 2003


In a message dated 12/10/2003 2:16:56 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
jeffsmelser at ntgreek.net writes:
> What I think I would still question, however, is the
> usage of EPI with the accusative hHMAS in the
> sense "among(st) us."

Yes, that is exactly what I'm questioning.

> Have you found other
> instances of EPI + accusative used with these
> combined verbs?

I don't have the fancy software that would let me do some of the searches I
see some of the rest of you doing, but no, I haven't found such instances.
In fact, in 1 Ki 29:6 (1 Sam. 29:6), where we have the nouns EXODOS and
EISODOS, we see what we might expect, the preposition META:
hH EXODOS SOU KAI hH EISODOS SOU MET' EMOU IN THi PAREMBOLHi

Or I might have expected EN hHMIN in Ac 1:21, or maybe ENTOS hHMWN, but I
have trouble understanding EF' hHMAS there.

BTW, I don't mean to belittle the "fancy software." If anyone would like to
contribute to the "TLG & Bibleworks 6 Fund for Jeff Smelser," please send
checks to...  Oh, I'm guessing solicitations aren't allowed on the list.
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As a user of some of the "fancy software", I ran a search on EF' hHMAS and 
found that in the NT it appears 10 times including this passage.  In each case 
(excluding this passage) the sense is "upon us."  It also appears 103 times in 
67 passages in the LXX which I haven't processed.

If you change that to Libronix/Logos, I might consider it. :-)

gfsomsel



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