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

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Aug 3 13:49:55 EDT 2005


On Wed, 3 Aug 2005 17:23:21 +0100 "J. Ted Blakley"
<jtedblakley at gmail.com> writes:
> I am trying to work through a few passages in Mark which appear to
> have some idiosyncratic grammar and would appreciate any comments. 
> All
> of the passages have to do with the feedings in Mark and 
> specifically
> the words used to qualify the baskets of fragments that were taken 
> up
> following the feedings, namely, PLHRWMA, PLHRHS, and PERISSEUMA.
> 
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> Mark 6:43
> KAI HRAN KLASMATA DWDEKA KOFINWN PLHRWMATA KAI APO TWN ICQUWN
> 
> I take it that KLASMATA is the direct object 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?
> 
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I think here we have a genitive of material "there were twelve fulnesses
of baskets."  It specifies what constitutes the "fulnesses."

george
gfsomsel
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