[B-Greek] LXX Greek: 1. Parsing 2. Syntax

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Wed Aug 17 11:19:52 EDT 2005


On Wed, 17 Aug 2005 14:53:49 +0200 bosman23 at zonnet.nl writes:
> 
> A couple of question:
> I also hope that my transliteration are according to the manual on 
> the B-Greek info 
> page, I think so. 
> Regarding Jsh 5:13-15
> #1. My Gramcord parsing program gives at least in several instances 
> “sou” in the 
> parsing as a Genative 3s, while the LXX lexicon as well as 
> Practico’s Biblical Greek 
> Grammar tells me that it must be a Genative 2 person.
> #2. Is it a normal syntactic construction to have “o gar topos” “the 
> for place (on 
> which thou art standing is holy)” in LXX Greek? To have the definite 
> article ‘o’ (ms, 
> Nom) seperated by a particle ‘but’/’gar’, and then continue with the 
> corresponding 
> noun ‘topos’ (ms, Nom)? While the corresponding MT, Hebrew simply 
> says: “ci hamaqom 
> (asher attah ‘omed alaiv qodesh hu’)”
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My knee-jerk reaction to #1 was that it was wrong (and it is).  I did,
however, run a morphological search specifying "Pronoun, 3s" without
giving the lemma on both the LXX and all other Greek texts (NA-27, W & H,
Tischendorf, Byz Maj, TR, etc.) and got 22,096 hits.  That isn't as
outrageous as it sounds since it includes the summary total for all
resources and includes all 3 person pronouns such as AUTOS, EKEINOS,
hOUTOS, etc.  In all of these I found not a single SOU (nor a Pfennig
either).  I would suggest that you contact Gramcord and report the error.

On #2.  GAR is a postpositive so it cannot be placed first in the clause.
 It is therefore normal.  You might check the lexicon regarding GAR (and
a few other words).  It will likely tell you this.

george
gfsomsel
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