[B-Greek] hUGIHS

Alexander Loney alexander.loney at duke.edu
Sat Oct 9 20:14:42 EDT 2004


This adjective declines in the paradigm, as I learned it, of ALHQHS.

 

What you see as the genitive, hUGIES, is actually the neuter nominative
singular form of the adjective (and accusative and vocative). This is the
stand entry pattern in lexicons for adjectives. First the nominative
masculine singular form (the lemma), then the feminine, then the neuter. If
the adjective has only two different gendered declensions (like hUGIHS)
these are the common gender and the neuter and only these two are listed at
the beginning of the entry. Common gender means that it remains the same for
both masculine and feminine formations. Sometimes irregular forms of a
lexical entry are listed too, but these will be clearly marked as to what
case it is. This particular pattern of declension for hUGIHS I have written
out below. 

 

 

COMMON       

hUGIHS

hUGIOUS

hUGIEI

hUGIH

hUGIES

 

hUGIEIS

hUGIWN

hUGIESI

hUGIEIS

 

NEUTER

hUGIES

hUGIOUS

hUGIEI

hUGIES

hUGIES

 

hUGIH

hUGIWN

hUGIESI

hUGIH

 

 

I suppose that your version of "sound teaching" would work. Though in Titus
1:9 and 2:1, and in 2 Tim 4:3, the writers have chosen to express this with
the attributive participle hUGIANOUSH instead of UGIHS.

 

 

 

 

 

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Alexander Loney

Duke University

Classical Studies

 

now the ears of my ears are awake and 

now the eyes of my eyes are opened

                                          - e e cummings

 

 

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[mailto:b-greek-bounces at lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Perry L. Stepp
Sent: Saturday, October 09, 2004 5:25 PM
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Subject: [B-Greek] hUGIHS

 

hUGIHS appears to be an adjective, but I can't make sense of its declension.

The lexicon gives hUGIES as the genitive and hUGIH as the accusative, is

that correct?

 

Nominative case for "the healthy teaching" or "the sound teaching" would be

hH hUGIHS DIDASKALIA, correct?

 

Can anyone explain this one?

 

Perry L. Stepp, Ph.D.

 

Associate Professor of Biblical Studies

Kentucky Christian University

 

"The past is never dead. It's not even past." 

                                                            --Faulkner 

 

 

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