[B-Greek] hUSTEROUNTAI inRom.3:23
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sat Feb 8 13:09:26 EST 2003
At 12:27 PM -0500 2/8/03, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>hUSTEROUNTAI in Rom.3:23 is usually translated active -fall short-. What
>is the significance of the voice in the Greek text (is it passive or
>middle?)
BDAG's entry for this (under hUSTEREW) is:
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5. to experience deficiency in someth. advantageous or desirable,
lack, be lacking, go without, come short of
b. pass. w. gen. of thing (Diod. S. 18, 71, 5; ApcMos 26; Jos.,
Ant. 15, 200) Ro 3:23; Dg 5:13 (opp. PERISSEUEIN); IEph 5:2. Also EN TINI 1
Cor 1:7. Abs. (Sir 11:11) Lk 15:14; 1 Cor 8:8 (opp. periss.); 2 Cor 11:9;
Phil 4:12 (opp. periss.); B 10:3. Ptc. 1 Cor 12:24.-DELG s.v. hUSTEROS.
M-M. TW. Spicq.
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I think this is middle; it is being used just like DEOMAI with a genitive.
Accordance lists 8 passives of hUSTEREW, only one of these is aorist
(hUSTERHQEIS in 2 Cor 11:9), but I really think they're all middle (and
intransitive). It's interesting that although there are quite a few actives
with pretty much the same sense, it seems that the use of middle for it
increases in the Koine.
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Carl W. Conrad
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