[B-Greek] ENQUMHMA in Ezek. 23:37
Jeff Smelser
jeffsmelser at ntgreek.net
Mon Nov 24 13:29:39 EST 2003
Thanks to both Albert and Ken for the very, very helpful comments!
As I wrote to Albert offlist, I'm not much of a Hebrew student, but if I had
at least looked at the English text I guess I should have been able to see
that regardless of what meaning the translator had in mind, AUTOIS was just
an effort to represent the Hebrew pronoun.
Albert, when I wrote offlist, I wasn't yet fully convinced that here
EMOICWNTO is used intransitively and TA ENQUMHMATA is used adverbially. I'm
warming to the idea, maybe reconciled to it.
Ken, your comments were right in line with Albert's. There was one thing you
said, however, that started me wondering:
> Yes, TA ENQUMHMATA is accusative (if it were
> nominative, the verb should be singular)
I agree that ENQUMHMATA is accusative here, but I wouldn't have supposed the
verb would ~necessarily~ have been singular if ENQUMHMATA were nominative.
In general, in Hellenistic, neuter plurals may take a singular verb, but do
not necessarily do so. Your comment made me wonder if in the LXX there is a
tendency to follow the stricter Attic usage (singular verb with neuter
plural), but I see Robertson (p. 404) says the LXX shows the same liberty we
see in the N.T.
Jeff Smelser
www.ntgreek.net
www.centrevillechurchofchrist.org
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