[B-Greek] KAQ in John 8:9
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Mar 10 21:16:30 EST 2003
At 8:52 PM -0500 3/10/03, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>The first part of John 8:9 reads: hOI DE AKOUSANTES EXHRCONTO hEIS KAQ hEIS...
>When I first read this I was thinking that KAQ can't be from KATTA because
>the second hEIS is in the nominative case. So I considered KAQA. My
>vocabulary guide says that there is only one occurrence of this word in
>the NT. Seeing that that is in Matth. 27:10 KAQ in John 8 can't be from
>KAQA. That brings me back to KATTA. Can someone tell me why the second
>hEIS in not in the dative or the accusative case?
>If this is actually KATTA, then this use of the preposition is similar to
>John 1:16 where -we all received CARIN ANTI CARITOS-. where CARITOS is the
>object of the preposition and therefore in the genitive case. Am I missing
>something?
(1) It's KATA hEIS, then with the Alpha of KATA elided, the T aspirates
before the rough-breathing and becomes KAQ' hEIS;
(2) In Koine the combination KAQ' hEIS tends to become (but is not
consistently--I like to remind people that this is a language in flux)
indeclinable. In fact, it might very well be spelled as it is in Modern
Greek, KAQEIS, which is the MG word for "everyone" (also takes the form
KAQENAS). At any rate, the combination hEIS KAQ' hEIS means "one after the
other" and should probably be thought of as an adverbial expression with
indeclinable parts.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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