[B-Greek] Acts 2:46

Curtis Hinson curtis at curtishinson.com
Mon Dec 18 07:55:06 EST 2006


Recently I was working in Acts and ran across this:

2:46 καθ ημεραν τε προσκαρτερουντες ομοθυμαδον εν τω ιερω κλωντες τε κατ 
οικον αρτον μετελαμβανον τροφης εν αγαλλιασει και αφελοτητι καρδιας

KAQ HMERAN TE PROSKARTEROUNTES OMOQUMADON EN TW IERW KLWNTES TE KAT 
OIKON ARTON METELAMBANON TROFHS EN AGALLIASEI AFELOTHTI KARDIAS

My working translation so far is something like:

Each day they were devoted as with a single mind in the Temple, breaking 
bread in the house, sharing food with exultation and sincerity in their 
hearts 

I looked at a spectrum of translations and they seem to take the 
devotion going on in the first part of the sentence to be in the temple 
courts, and the breaking of bread in the second part to be "at home" or 
"in their homes" or NKJV even says "house to house."  I assume NKJV took 
KAT to be working with OIKON in this way.

My question here partly regards the use of the accusative singular 
OIKON, which I'd expect to be plural and maybe some extra words if it 
were functioning in the way most of the translations have it. That of 
course calls into question the function of TE here, which Friberg 
considers to mean and, likewise, or so in it's use in 2.40.

So why is it again that OIKON is not a reference to IERW since it's 
singular?  I thought maybe OIKON was another way of referring to IERW, 
so that the breaking of bread as well as the devotion is still going on 
in the temple courts.  And what about KAT here, since we're in the 
accusative, wouldn't it be something like:

...breaking bread throughout the house...
or even
...breaking the house-bread throughout...

Any insights on that?  Any precedents come to mind either way?

Bless the Name
Curtis Hinson
http://curtishinson.com
http://adfontes.ath.cx

-- 
My local weather at the time of this email:
49F (9C), Overcast

Server status:
 06:24:01 up 107 days,  5:10,  1 user,  load average: 0.12, 0.15, 0.11




More information about the B-Greek mailing list