[B-Greek] KAT' IDIAN LK 10:23 feminine singular
Oun Kwon
kwonbbl at gmail.com
Sat Apr 23 09:32:33 EDT 2005
Re: XWRA and others, I have been wondering about it when I checked an
interlinear N.T. which for KAT IDIAN as 'according-to private-[spot]'.
Thanks to the list for enlightening me,
Oun Kwon.
*On 4/23/05, Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at ioa.com> wrote:
*> >suggests that the noun which lies behind the phrase KAT' IDIAN is XWRA,
which has the sense of "region" or "place".
>
> That may be the case, but on the other hand,
>... It's certainly likely that CWRAi is the noun implicit in the expression
EN THi ERHMWi ("in the wilderness") but quite a few Greek adverbs formed
with feminine adjectives seem rather to involve an > implicit hODOS, so that
we might have KAT' IDIAN hODON as an adverbial expression meaning "one's own
way" and IDIAI (hODWi) the same, while ...
>...KATA + substantival adjective in the accusative is one of the most
common adverbial formative factors in Hellenistic Greek.
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