[B-Greek] Matt 15:37: a strange structure?

moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr moon at mail.sogang.ac.kr
Sun Jun 27 21:40:27 EDT 2004


Hi,

I have looked at the sentence of Matt 15:37b, and am puzzled about it.

TO PERISSEUON TWN KLASMATWN HRAN hHPTA SPURIDAS PLHREIS.
the left-over  of  pieces   took  seven  baskets  full

PLHREIS is  accusative plural, and seems to describe TO PERISSEUON, which is 
also accusative, though the latter is singular. hHPTA SPURIDAS seems to 
construe with PLHREIS, and complement it. So, I would think that hHPTA SPURIDAS
is "accusative of respect", and would be translated as "in seven baskets". 

Then, it can be taken to mean:

They took the left-over of (food) pieces (whose amount turned out) full in seven baskets.

But I wonder if hHPTA SPURIDAS PLHREIS should be taken to simply mean
"full seven baskets". Then we would have:

They took the left-over of pieces full-seven-basket.

Sincerely Moon

Moon Jung
Sogang University, Seoul, Korea


Moon R. Jung
Associate Professor
Dept of Media Technology
Graduate School of Media Comm
Sogang Univ, Seoul, Korea





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