[B-Greek] Article before QANATOS
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Sun Oct 16 06:13:09 EDT 2005
Although "v" is the ASCII character yielded by some Greek fonts on a
Roman keyboard, it is NOT the standard transliteration for Nu; that
is "N."
On Oct 16, 2005, at 12:12 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:
>
> On Oct 15, 2005, at 5:53 PM, TuNeCedeMalis67 at aol.com wrote:
>
>
>> Is there usually an article before QAVATOS (death)?
>>
>> I'm double translating the Greek to English exercises in Machen
>> chapter 7
>> back into Greek, and I noticed that one sentence used the article
>> before death,
>> and one of them didn't. What is the general rule for using the
>> article with
>> death?
>>
>
> Kat,
>
> The general rule is that there is no general rule. QAVATOS is
> alternatly a state, a substantive, a semi-personification. Machen's
> first example looks like a state and the second looks like a
> substantive. This may or may not explain the use of the article.
> Machen's examples are without co-text, which means the are free
> floating fragments of discourse and for that reason they do not
> provided much useful information for syntax analysis. The exercise is
> to provided a literal translation not a syntax analysis.
>
> NT grammars on QAVATOS and the article BDF #257 N. Turner p.175.
>
> From a cognitive approach QAVATOS may always be used with the
> article. It is always present in the active cognitive framework
> (context). It does not need to be introduced.
>
>
> Elizabeth Kline
>
>
>
>
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Carl W. Conrad
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