Re: [B-Greek] OUS O QEOS SYNEZEUXEN…

Arie Dirkzwager dirkzwager at pandora.be
Mon Jul 19 05:11:49 EDT 2004


hOUS is accusative plural of the relative pronoun hOS, "who", referring to
the people who married.
hO (before OUN) is accusative singular neutral "what", loosely referring to
the same people
OUN is the well known particle "thus", "so".

Arie


Dr. A. Dirkzwager
Hoeselt, Belgium
e-mail dirkzwager at pandora.be

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Van: "Dean Kalmantis" <deankal at hol.gr>
Aan: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Verzonden: zaterdag 17 juli 2004 16:15
Onderwerp: [B-Greek] OUS O QEOS SYNEZEUXEN…


I have a question on the pronoun OUS.

Greeks, referring to a couple getting married as being divinely
ordained,  often use the coined phrase: OUS O QEOS SYNEZEUXEN, which is
slightly different from the original O OUN O QEOS SUNEZEUXEN [...]. The
KJV renders OUN as “WHAT,” but I think the common Greek notion of OUS
(at least in this case) is “THESE,” i.e. these two, who are getting
married. Is this a proper use of the Koine OUS?

Thank you,

Dean Kalmantis
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