[B-Greek] Matt. 21:22 LHMYESQE

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Tue Aug 29 15:49:59 EDT 2006


 
On Tuesday, August 29, 2006, at 03:18PM, Mitch Larramore wrote:

>KAI PANTA hOSA AN AITHSHTE EN THi PROSEUCHi
>PISTEUONTES LHMYESQE
>
>My parser identifies LHMYESQE as Future Middle. Why is
>this a Middle and not a Passive? Does a Middle mean
>that the subject brings about the answered prayer in
>some way??

The future tense of LAMBANW is LHMYOMAI. As I noted last night, 
this is one of a sizable number of present-tense actives that
have the future-tense form in the middle (there is no LHMYW).
My guess is that the verbal concept in these verbs when projected
into the future involves subject-focus, e.g. LAMBANW "I grasp"--
LHMYOMAI "I'll get it in my hot little hands."


Carl W. Conrad
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