[B-Greek] Ephesians 5:33

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Thu Jan 20 19:06:54 EST 2005


On Jan 20, 2005, at 7:00 AM, Rion Reece wrote:

> I made an error in my typing of the question.  hEKASTOS appears right 
> after hENA.  I should have written
>
> PLHN KAI hUMEIS OI KAQ hENA hEKASTOS THN hEAUTOU GUNAIKA hOUTWS 
> AGAPATW hWS hEAUTON
>
> Taking KAQ hENA as distributive, therefore, seems redundant (although 
> I know that sometimes Greek can be) and, at least to my eye, awkward.  
> Is it so, and is what I was suggesting actually possible?

Pleonasm is not rare in Greek. Note the parallel from Acts 21.19:

KAI ASPASAMENOS AUTOUS EXHGEITO KAQ' hEN hEKASTON, hWN EPOIHSEN hO QEOS 
EN TOIS EQNESIN DIA THS DIAKONIAS AUTOU.

This clearly means something like "in each and every detail." BDAG 
notes that hEKASTOS is strengthened by hEIS and, when this is the case, 
the meaning is "every single one." There are many examples of this.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
MAR student
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School




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