[B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question

A. Philip Brown II pbrown at GBS.EDU
Fri Jul 2 08:51:23 EDT 2004


Thanks, again, Carl.

I don't have ready access to BDF right now, but just out of curiosity, does
anyone know any other NT or LXX examples of ARTICLE + NOUN crasis?  TO +
ONOMA appears (from the database I have) to be the only example in the NT.
Are there others?

Thanks!

Philip Brown

> -----Original Message-----
> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
> Sent: Friday, July 02, 2004 8:20 AM
> To: A. Philip Brown II
> Cc: BGreek
> Subject: RE: [B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question
>
>
> At 7:59 AM -0400 7/2/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
> >Thanks, Carl.
> >
> >Of course, I'm aware of crasis, but had never seen it with an
> article and a
> >noun. Does this happen anywhere in the NT?
>
> Sure, although not as frequently as in Attic--and Philo writes a literary
> Greek that is much closer to Attic, even if he writes a bit earlier than
> the onset of the Atticist movement. You might want to check BDF ''18 (on
> crasis specifically in the GNT) and 486 (avoidance of hiatus in Hebrews).
> BDF notes TOUNANTION for TO ENANTION, TOUNOMA for TO ONOMA, the
> possibility
> that KATA TAUTA in Lk should be understood as KATA TA AUTA;
> there's KAN for
> KAI AN or KAI EAN, KAGW for KAI EGW, KAMOI for KAI EMOI, KAKEINOS for KAI
> EKEINOS ...
>
>
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org
> >> [mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org]On Behalf Of Carl W. Conrad
> >> Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2004 9:06 PM
> >> To: A. Philip Brown II
> >> Cc: BGreek
> >> Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Philo vocabulary question
> >>
> >>
> >> At 8:00 PM -0400 7/1/04, A. Philip Brown II wrote:
> >> >Sorry to ask this here, but I couldn't figure out this word in Philo:
> >> >TOUPIKRANON
> >> >
> >> >The sentence reads in part (from Loeb): O DE hIEREUS LABWN
> PROTEINETW TH
> >> >GUNAIKI KAI TOUPIKRANON AFELWN, hIN' EPIKRINHTAI GEGUMNWMENH TH
> >> KEFALH ...
> >> >F. H. Colson's translation: The priest taking the offering hands
> >> it to the
> >> >woman and removes her kerchief, in order than she may be
> judged with her
> >> >head bared ...
> >> >
> >> >Obviously, he is translating TOUPIKRANON as 'kerchief,' but I
> >> can't find the
> >> >word in LSJ. There is a smooth breathing mark over the U,
> >> suggesting to me
> >> >the possibility of a contraction, but that's all the farther
> I could get.
> >> >
> >> >Any help on the lexical form of this word would be appreciated.
> >>
> >> This is an instance of crasis: TOUPIKRANON = TO EPIKRANON, which LSJ
> >> defines as "that which is put on the head, head-dress,
> cap"--and one can
> >> readily recognize the elements of the compouns as EPI- and
> KERA/KRA from
> >> KERAS 'head.' In crasis the final vowel of the first word
> fuses/mixes with
> >> the initial vowel of the second word, usually resulting in a vowel or
> >> diphthong comparable to that of ordinary contractions, so that O
> >> + E --> OU.
> >> --
> >>
> >> Carl W. Conrad
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