[B-Greek] Genitive Absolute

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Mar 26 06:33:35 EST 2003


At 6:26 AM -0500 3/26/03, David Lew wrote:
>B-Greekers,
>
>    I am studying the part. of NTGreek. The exampel is from Mark 11.27,
>KAI EN TWN hIERWi PERIPATOUNTOS AUTOU ERCONTAI PROS AUTON hOI ARCIEREIS...
>
>my question is why the part. PERIPATOUNTOS is plur. while AUTOU is singl.?
>Does it have a special meaning?

PERIPATOUNTOS is m. sg. gen., as is AUTOU. I'm not quite sure why you
thought the participle was plural, but active participles with stem in -NT
(i.e. ALL active participles outside of the perfect) have 3d-declension
forms, and the genitive sg. m. & n. 3d-declension ending is -OS.
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Carl W. Conrad
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