[B-Greek] Accentuation of PATRADELFOS
Ken Penner
pennerkm at mcmaster.ca
Wed Dec 14 08:16:49 EST 2005
This word does qualify as biblical, since it occurs in the LXX Paraleipomena
A 27:32, so no apologies are necessary. There, as also in the Testament of
Gad 9:4, we the accent is given as PATRA/DELFOS pat??de?f??.
The dative plural is PATRADE/LFOIS, rather thanPATRADELFOI=S.
Ken Penner
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> Sorry to bother the list with a trivial question that does not even
> relate to a word found in the NT.
> The normal accentuation of ADELFOS (brother) has the accent on the
> ultimate: ADELFO/S, but LSJ give for a composite of this word,
> PATRADELFOS (uncle on the father's side): PATRA/DELFOS.
>
> In P.Ryl. 119 the original editors print the dative plural as
> PATRADELFOI=S, suggesting a nominative PATRADELFO/S, while the Duke
> Databank has PATRADE/LFOIS, in line with LSJ. Did the editors of the
> Ryland papyri made a slip under influence of ADELFO/S or is the
> accentuation of such words a matter of dispute?
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