[B-Greek] ELUPHSE TON KAIN LIAN
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Sat Sep 17 11:22:37 EDT 2005
On Sep 17, 2005, at 11:02 AM, Eddie Mishoe wrote:
>
> ...KAI ELUPHSE TON KAIN LIAN (...and Cain fretted
> exceedingly)
>
> Any reason for the accusative TON?
Yes, there's an understood subject, I would assume: the fact that
Cain's sacrifice was disregarded. Note that this verb is middle
LUPEOMAI when it means grieve, suffer pain, but active LUPEW when
it's transitive causative -- make someone grieve or feel pain. If you
want more literally to translate the phrase ELUPHSE TON KAIN LIAN,
I'd make it " ... and it really rubbed Cain the wrong way!"
Carl W. Conrad
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