[B-Greek] Acts 20,2
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Apr 6 23:27:37 EDT 2004
At 7:19 PM -0700 4/6/04, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>DIELQWN DE TA MERH EKEINA KAI PARAKALESAS AUTOUS LOGWi
>POLLWi HLQEN EIS THN hELLADA
>
>Why is LOGWi here singular? (Is this like the
>idiomatic English expression "many a word has been
>spoke...")
You ought not to think of LOGOS as referring necessarily to a single word;
it is the noun equivalent to the verb LEGW and means "speech," "discourse,"
"talk" I'd understand POLLWi LOGWi as "with a great deal of talking."
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Carl W. Conrad
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