[B-Greek] Col 3:16a

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Mon Apr 19 21:49:00 EDT 2004


At 6:30 PM -0700 4/19/04, Mitch Larramore wrote:
>hO LOGOS TOU CRISTOU ENOIKEITW EN hUMIN PLOUSIWS ...
>
>Can PLOUSIWS be taken as a "relative adverb" here and
>be translated into English:
>
>The word of Christ, in all its richness, let it dwell
>in you.

You can translate it that way, but it's still a simple adverb; RELATIVE
adverbs are generally forms beginning with hO- and corresponding to
INTERROGATIVE adverbs: hOPWS - PWS ('how'), hOPOU - POU ('where'), hOPOTE -
POTE ('when').
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Carl W. Conrad
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