[B-Greek] SOI in Mark 2:18

DJNordlund at aol.com DJNordlund at aol.com
Sun Feb 8 23:16:55 EST 2004


In a message dated 2/8/2004 6:31:08 PM Pacific Standard Time, 
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu writes:
At 8:59 PM -0500 2/8/04, <bertdehaan at gosympatico.ca> wrote:
>Mark 2:18 b.
>DIA TI hOI MAQHTAI IWANNOU KAI  hOI MAQHTAI TWN FARISAIWN NHSTEUOUSIN, hOI
>DE SOI MAQHTAI OU NHSTEUOUSIN;
>
>Is SOI 2nd person personal pronoun dat. sg. (disciples to you, ie. your
>disciples) or is it the Nom. pl. masc. modifying MAQHTAI.
>It probably is not a big deal because in both cases it means "your
>disciples", but I am interested in knowing.

It is the pronominal adjective (SOS/SH/SON); the dative of the personal
pronoun would never be used this way as an adnominal modifier.
-- 

Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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I obviously have a long way to go in my understanding of Greel grammar, and I 
sometimes despair of ever getting to the point of where I can read the Greek 
New Testament without having to "validate" my understanding by going back to 
an English translation. Using BibleWorks 6.0, I looked up SOI in the UBS 
dictionary (Barclay-Newman) and it is parsed as 2nd person pronoun, dative, singular 
of SU.  Can somebody provide additional clarification to a struggling student 
of Koine Greek?

Dan Nordlund



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