[B-Greek] Article Confusion

Fitzwilliam Darcy fitzwilliamd at hotmail.com
Tue Aug 23 17:35:16 EDT 2005


Could someone please explain to me the purpose of the definite article 
(nominative masculine singular) in Matthew 6:9? “Pater hmwn ho en tois 
ouranois”

Pater is a vocative masculine singular noun so I did a search in the New 
Testament (I didn’t check the LXX) and could not find another example of the 
article being used in this way with Pater. In Luke 11:2 there is no article 
either; Pater is simply followed by a comma.

In a related question, what is signaling other parts of speech (verbs, 
pronouns, etc.) to translators? KJV: “Our Father which art in heaven;” NAS 
and ASV: “Our Father who art in heaven.” The ESV and NIV translate it as 
“Our Father in heaven” which makes the most sense to my very, very basic 
understanding of what the Greek words mean.

Thank you,

Fitzwilliam Darcy

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