[B-Greek] hESTWTA
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad at ioa.com
Tue Sep 20 09:33:22 EDT 2005
On Sep 20, 2005, at 9:01 AM, Mitch Larramore wrote:
> Luke 5:2 contains
>
> KAI EIDEN DUO PLOIA hESTWTA PARA THN LIMNHN
>
> Why is there no -K in the Perfect ptc. hESTWTA?
This is what's called a "Second Perfect" of hISTHMI/hISTAMAI (I'd
prefer this verb be lemmatized as hISTAMAI since the active form is
actually the causaative and the intransitive standard form is in fact
the middle). The older form of the perfect tense of hISTAMAI is
hESTAA, a form found more commonly in Homer and archaic Greek
literature than at later times, when the "First perfect" hESTHKA is
standard. However one is likely to see the participle of the "Second
perfect" hESTWS (although "active" the "Second Perfect" had no voice
distinction and often, as in this instance, corresponded with a
middle lemma. Curiously one find both the "First perfect" participle
hESTHKWS and the "Second perfect" participle hESTWS quite commonly
throughout the GNT. But as I've repeatedly noted, the Koine is a
language is flux with concurrent older and newer equivalent forms.
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
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