[B-Greek] Case definitions

Mark Wilson emory2oo2 at hotmail.com
Thu Oct 9 10:14:42 EDT 2003


Mitch:

My recommendation is that you pay no attention to the terms. I believe these 
terms are taken from A. T. Robertson's Grammar. You are better off 
understanding how the cases function rather than hoping to decipher their 
meanings based on the ancient terms assigned to the cases. A. T.'s grammar 
is a bit odd, much like Fanning's Verbal Aspect, he assumes his readers are 
already fluent in Greek. When trying to show a particular nuance of a Greek 
phrase, he quotes the phrase without explaining what it is that he's trying 
to show his reader. In other words, he assumes you are already fluent in 
reading Greek. So....why the grammar?

My thoughts,

Mark Wilson



>From: Mitch Larramore <mitchlarramore at yahoo.com>
>To: B Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
>Subject: [B-Greek] Case definitions
>Date: Wed, 8 Oct 2003 18:53:56 -0700 (PDT)
>
>If it is not too much trouble, I was wondering if
>someone might be able to give me good definitions of
>these terms. The grammar I looked at used them but
>really did not clearly define them for the reader. I
>am assuming that these terms are what the very ancient
>Greeks gave to them.
>
>The Cases:
>
>PTWSIS ORQH, EUQEIA, ONOMASTIKH (Nominative)
>hH GENIKH PTWSIS (Genitive)
>hH AFAIRETIKH PTWSIS (Ablative)
>hH TOPIKH PTWSIS (Locative)
>hH CRHSTIKH PTWSIS (Instrumental)
>hH DOTIKH PTWSIS (Dative)
>hH AITIATIKH PTWSIS (Accusative)
>
>
>
>
>=====
>Mitch Larramore
>Spring Branch, Texas
>Student/Memorial High School
>
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