[B-Greek] Mark 6:43- genitive
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Apr 23 13:23:33 EDT 2004
At 12:59 PM -0300 4/23/04, John Colby wrote:
>Mark 6:43 reads:
>
>KAI HRAN KLASMATA DWDEKA KOFINWN PLHRWMATA KAI APO TWN ICQUWN.
>
>This sentence is giving me a hard time. Why is KOFINOS in the genitive and
>not KLASMA? Is it something to do with PLHRWMATA? In this sentence I was
>expecting something like: HPAN DWDEKA KOFINOUS KLASMATWN (like John 6:13).
>Thank you for your help.
Yes, you're expecting the Greek construction to say "twelve baskets of
crumbs" but what you read in Mark is "crumbs--twelve-baskets' fullnesses."
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Carl W. Conrad
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