[B-Greek] The forms of AIWNIOS
Erik Westwig
ewestwig at palisade.com
Wed May 28 13:30:28 EDT 2003
The last clause in John 3:16 is ALL' EXH ZWHN AIWNION.
Here AIWNION is clearly the feminine, accusative singular of AIWNIOS. As I
was checking things out in Trenchard's vocabulary book, however, he lists
the forms of AIWNIOS as : AIWNIOS, -A, -ON which implies a separate
masculine and feminine form. This obviously disagrees with this usage in
John 3:16. So I checked out my other books and Mounce (my intro grammar)
lists the form as AIWNIOS, -OV with the masculine and feminine sharing the
same form. This is odd, because Mounce claims to have derived his forms
from Trenchard. To complicate things, my Classical lexicon (The Pocket
Oxford Classic Greek Dictionary) lists the form as AIWNIOS, -(A), -OV where
the feminine form has been parenthetically marked as being somehow special,
but with no explanation of what that mark means.
Can anyone fill me in on what the deal is?
Erik Westwig
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