[B-Greek] Subjunctive or Indicative question

A. Philip Brown II pbrown at GBS.EDU
Wed Apr 14 11:38:55 EDT 2004


Xairein,

Bill Mounce uses the following question from Matt. 6:28 as an example of a
deliberate subjunctive:

KAI PERI ENDUMATOS TI MERIMNATE?

I know that the 2nd pl Pres. Act. Subj. of -AW contract verbs is identical
to the Pres. Act. Ind. morphologically, but I was wondering why MERIMNATE
should be regarded as subjunctive.  None of the Greek morphology databases I
have parse it as subjunctive.

Is there something about the syntax/semantics of the question that argues
for parsing it as subjunctive?

Thanks.

Philip Brown




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