[B-Greek] Mark 6:43; 8:8; 8:19-20 -- full, fullness, etc.

Elizabeth Kline kline-dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Aug 3 13:24:18 EDT 2005


Hi Ted,


On 8/3/05 9:23 AM, "J. Ted Blakley" <jtedblakley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Mark 6:43
> KAI HRAN KLASMATA DWDEKA KOFINWN PLHRWMATA KAI APO TWN ICQUWN
> 
> I take it that KLASMATA is the direct object

Yes.

> thus "they took up
> broken-pieces" and clearly 12 baskets were filled but...
> 1. Why is DWDEKA KOFINWN in the genitive?
> 2. But more importantly what is PLHRWMATA doing? Why accusative? Why
> plural? Why use a noun here and not an adjective?

I think the term used in traditional grammar is apposition. PLHRWMATA is an
appositive attached to KLASMATA. This is a normal function for a noun.

I would hang DWDEKA KOFINWN off of KLASMATA but it might work just as well
to hang it off of PLHRWMATA.

I don't see anything strange about this syntax.


Elizabeth Kline 






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