[B-Greek] accusative form , masculine
Carl W. Conrad
cwconrad2 at mac.com
Mon Aug 28 19:30:53 EDT 2006
On Monday, August 28, 2006, at 05:31PM, Eve Ritsema <thebodyofjesusthenazoraion at juno.com> wrote:
John 18:5, 18:7, Acts 2:22
TOV IESOUS NAZORAION is translated Jesus of Nazareth. Nazareth is in the Masculine form in the above version not the feminine form as in Matt 4:13, Luke 4:16 or the other 6 times it is in feminine form Mt, Lk ACTs. My question is how can it be of NAZORAION, and not The NAZORAION if it is in the Masculine form?
Actually the text in John 18:5 and 18:7 reads IHSOUN TON NAZWRAION, the proper noun, the article and the adjective all in the accusative, properly so, as direct objects of the verb ZHTEITE carried forward. In Acts 2:22 it is the object of the delayed verb ANEILATE.
I think your problem lies in not realizing that NAZWRAION is not a noun but an adjective "of/from Nazareth" and that it is masculine because it must agree with the masculine expression, IHSOUN.
Carl W. Conrad
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