[B-Greek] question about heis mia tis

George F Somsel gfsomsel at juno.com
Tue Feb 21 19:25:34 EST 2006


On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:11:04 -0300 "Octavio Rodriguez"
<octaviors at gmail.com> writes:
> Dear Sir:
> 
>     Some people affirm that in Gospel John the tendency to show if a 
> noun is
> indefinite is by the numerals hEIS,MIA, TIS.
> 
>      is it true?.
> 
>     do think that in a predicate anarthrous in a copulative clause 
> is this
> true?
> 
> 
> Best Regards
> Octavio Rodriguez
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This is one method used to compensate for the lack of an indefinite
article in Greek.  I haven't done a lot of study in the gospel lately so
I can't pull a citation off the top of my head, but this does occur in
the Apocalypse.  In Rev 55 we find

KAI hEIS EK TWN PRESBUTERWN LEGEI MOI, "MH KLAIE . . ."

in 8.13 we find

KAI EIDON, KAI HKOUSA hENOW AETOU PETOMENOU EN MEOURANHMATI LEGOTOS . . .

george
gfsomsel
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