Article or Relative Pronoun
Maurice A. O'Sullivan
mauros at iol.ie
Sat Jan 11 11:23:39 EST 2003
At 15:26 11/01/2003, bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca wrote:
>In John 6:18, is hH an article or a relative pronoun. In my Bible it is
>written with an accent but I don't know how to make sense of it as an
>relative pronoun. Can someone help me out?
It is an article, with an acute accent on it -- so where, you ask, does the
accent come from?
From the second word -- TE -- of which, BTW, there are only 3 occurrences
in John -- so you were unlucky, so to speak <g>.
TE is termed an "enclitic", and its accent has been thrown back on the
previous word.
If you would like to go to the Perseus web-site, and go to the on-line copy
of Smyth's Greek Grammar, you will find all you want on the topic of
enclitics and what they do to accents at sections 181 ff.
Go to: http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Perseus:abo:sec,00001
and in the "Go To" box enter 181 and hit Enter. That will take you straight
to the relevant section.
BTW, Brown, in his commentary on John (Anchor Bible ) remarks that here TE
is a "strong connective".
Maurice A. O'Sullivan [ Bray, Ireland ]
mauros at iol.ie
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