[B-Greek] mia
Jim West
jwest at highland.net
Sun Jan 30 20:20:20 EST 2005
Some nouns in Hebrew can be found in both the Masculine and the Feminine
Gender, as can be determined contextually by associated
Adjectives. For example the Hebrew word for land, earth occurs
normally as a Feminine Noun (eg., Gen 10:11 - but
sometimes as a Masculine Noun (eg., Ezk 21:24). "Sabbath" is one of
those words. If the writer in question knows this, he may tailor the
gender of the noun appropriately.
Best
Jim
Ken Graham wrote:
>Greetings:
>
>I am new to b-Greek, and have taken Classical Greek at Calvin College. I have noticed the expression "first day of the week" used about 8 times in the New Testament. Most of these use the Greek word MIA for one or first. However, one of them uses PRWTOS which seems to be more proper. Does anyone know why MIA a female gender was used with SABBATWN a neuter word? Could it be the Jews were counting the 7 sabbaths toward PENTHKOSTH a female gender noun and hence the use of MIA? Or is there some other history behind the use of MIA?
>
>Thanks for your help,
>Ken Graham
>
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