[B-Greek] pepoithos in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13?

michaelhayes at juno.com michaelhayes at juno.com
Tue Oct 28 01:32:35 EST 2003



Phil,

ESOMAI PEPOIQWS is a future perfect periphrastic construction.  I believe
if you look in your grammar under periphrastic constructions this will
become clearer to you.  Though I do believe the text you selected is a
rarity and there are very few of these future perfect constructions in
the NT.  I could be wrong on that however.  I look forward to hear other
comments on this particular text.

Sincerely,

Michael Hayes
Concordia Seminary St. Louis


On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 05:56:56 -0000 "Philip" <phil-eng at ighmail.com>
writes:
> PepoiqwV is a difficult word to translate/ interpret
> I find PepoiqwV (pepoithos) in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13 a 
> difficult
> word to interpret and translate. This is because as a participle[1], 
> (i.e. a
> verbal adjective, having the characteristics of both verbs and 
> adjectives),
> treating it either verbally or adjectivally in the Greek New 
> Testament
> Hebrews 2:13 context does not yield any meaningful phrase. For 
> example, the
> participle pepoiqwV  (pepoithos) cannot be treated as an adjective 
> in Greek
> New Testament Hebrews 2:13 because there is no noun or pronoun that 
> it
> qualifies. Neither can pepoiqwV be treated as a verb because of the
> ‘post-ceeding’ word esomai, which is also a verb. Treating pepoiqwV
> (pepoithos) as a verb will in effect be putting two verbs together 
> which
> again will render the phrase, ‘esomaipepoiqwV’ (‘esomai pepoithos 
> ’), and
> indeed the entire sentence in Greek New Testament Hebrews 2:13 
> meaningless.
> 
> 
> Any thoughts?
> 
> 
> 
> Philip Engmann
> 
> 
> 
>
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> [1] Harold K. Moulton, The Analytical Greek Lexicon Revised, 
> Michigan: Grand
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