TIS and grammatical gender (Was Re: [B-Greek] 1 Timothy 5:8

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Fri Jan 16 11:40:02 EST 2004



dhoxworth at charter.net wrote:

> ><Jeffrey>
> >Have a look at PARQENOS and TEKNON and PAIDION and TELOS, not to mention QALASSA and EKKLHSIA and  ALHQEIA
>
> <doug>
> exactly. that's why i said that often they do agree, but not always. that's why it's not a hard and fast "rule" but there may be a pattern. it does not always appear to be completely random. but again, i wasn't trying to contradict what ann was saying, but just trying to interject with an explanation why that argument is often made (i.e., because of a seeming pattern).

"Seeming" pattern?  What kind, and what quantity, of evidence do you need to be convinced that the pattern is more than apparent?

Jeffrey Gibson
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