[B-Greek] 1 Cor. 14:8 word order
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sun May 29 01:07:00 EDT 2005
On Sunday, May 29, 2005, at 00:57AM, Jim West <jwest at highland.net> wrote:
>In Hebrew one puts what is most important first in the sentence (after
>any conjunction- if there is one). The stress, then, is on what comes
>first.
But in fact this sort of emphatic placement of ADHLON is perfectly common
in ancient Greek and needs no Hebrew background to explain it.
Also worth noting is that the adjective is ADHLON, not AHLON: I think AHLON
would mean something like "un-nailed."
>Mike Sangrey wrote:
>
>>On Sat, 2005-05-28 at 17:54 -0400, Jim West wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Perhaps Paul is thinking in Hebrew and writing in Greek. The word order
>>>is quite fine Hebrew.
>>>
>>>
>>
>>Interesting. Is the accusative-adj, nominative, accusative, verb
>>structure NORMAL Hebrew? In other words, is there no salient meaning
>>associated with the syntax?
>>
>>
>>
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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