[B-Greek] Curiosa in Biblical Greek

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat May 7 12:22:19 EDT 2005


It might be clearer if you were careful to include the rough  
breathing:     hEIS, MIA, hEN; after all EIS and EN are ordinarily  
understood as prepositions
On May 7, 2005, at 12:01 PM, D Jongkind wrote:

> Dear list,
>
> For want of a better expression, I labelled this thread curiosa,  
> though I am not looking for the really absurd here. What I am  
> looking for are passages that happen to illustrate a specific  
> grammatical phenomenon quite dramatically. Here are two examples, I  
> hope the collective wisdom of the list can come up with many others.
>
> My favourite verse to illustrate the three grammatical genders is  
> Ephesians 4:5 EIS SWMA, MIA PISTIS, EN BAPTISMA, nicely summing up  
> all three forms of EIS in one verse.
>
> Another one is 1 Chron 11:2:
> KAI EIPEN KURIOS O QEOS SOU SOI SU POIMANEIS TON LAON MOU TON  
> ISRAHL, with three cases of SU in a row.
>
> I am sure there are many others in the NT and LXX .Feel free to  
> share them.
>
> Cheers,
> Dirk Jongkind
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