[B-Greek] John 11:43 dativus
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue Mar 22 06:19:08 EST 2005
At 10:55 AM +0100 3/22/05, Beata Urbanek wrote:
>> At 10:06 PM +0100 3/21/05, Beata Urbanek wrote:
>> >Text:
>> >
>> >FWNHi MEGALHi EKRAUGASEN
>> >
>> >Is dativus here modi/manner or instrumentalis/means? Does it function as
>> >an adverb?
>>
>> It probably doesn't matter a great deal whether it's deemed one rather
>than
>> the other, but inasmuch as the key word here is MEGALHi I guess I'd prefer
>> to call it a dative of manner: ("he cried out loudly").
>> --
>>
>> Carl W. Conrad
>
>Thanks. Could we say that it is a typical way of expressing idea of "loudly"
>in B-Greek? I do not know any adverb with that meaning. of cource, there are
>examples of expressing this idea with other words (like MEGAS), but they are
>still general. Am I right?
Well, there are 26 instances in the GNT of the combination of FWNHi and
MEGALHi, mostly in the singular and 39 instances of that combination in the
LXX, again mostly in the singular--so I'd say it's the standard way of
expressing "loudly."
--
Carl W. Conrad
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