[B-Greek] mia

Steven Lo Vullo themelios at charter.net
Mon Jan 31 20:46:30 EST 2005


On Jan 30, 2005, at 7:20 PM, Jim West wrote:

> 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.

But as far as I know, SABBATON is always neuter in Greek. Also, it is 
clear that THi MIAi neither modifies TWN SABBATWN nor is TWN SABBATWN 
in apposition to THi MIAi, since THi MIAi is singular but TWN SABBATWN 
plural, and THi MIAi dative (the head word) but TWN SABBATWN genitive. 
It seems to me that the best solution is to understand an implied 
hHMERAi, or at the very least to understand MIAi as substantival in a 
conventional idiomatic phrase in which hHMERAi had long before dropped 
out.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI
MAR student
Trinity Evangelical Divinity School




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