[B-Greek] accents
Ted Shoemaker
tedsmath at yahoo.com
Wed Nov 19 12:02:45 EST 2003
Hello,
This is an ignorant question, but I have to ask it.
When I studied Greek (long ago!), we were usually permitted
to "slide by" the accents. Only occasionally did that lead
to trouble.
(Case in point: Matthew 4:6 EI hUIOS EI TOU QEOU
at first looked like "if son if of God"
until the teacher pointed out the accents.)
Today I noticed *four* different ways of accenting the
word ESTIN, found in 1 John 5:11 and 5:17:
acute accent on last syllable
grave accent on last syllable
accent on first syllable
no accent
So my two questions are:
(1) What are the differences among these four (and possibly
more) accentings for ESTIN; and
(2) Generally, how important is it to know the accents?
Thank you very much!
Ted Shoemaker
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Ted Shoemaker
You have to know what the rules are, and why, before you can break them intelligently.
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