[B-Greek] KAQ in John 8:9
bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca
Mon Mar 10 22:28:07 EST 2003
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> From: "Carl W. Conrad" <cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu>
> Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 21:16:30 -0500
> To: <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca>
> CC: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] KAQ in John 8:9
>
> 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.
I don't know why I thought I could spell KATA without looking it up. Many English words I spell wrong if I don't look them up. Thanks for the explanation.
Bert de Haan.
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