[B-Greek] Mood Frequencies in the NT

Kevin W. Woodruff cierpke at prodigy.net
Tue Jan 10 09:10:24 EST 2006


Antti:

Some of the discrpency may be due to the fact that
that the indicative and imperative often have
identical forms and often it is a judgement call on
the part of the interpreter to say which form a
particular verb is.

Kevin



--- Antti V J Mustakallio <amustaka at cc.helsinki.fi>
wrote:

> 
> 	I would like to know what are the statistics of
> mood frequencies
> in the NT. According to Wallace's Greek Grammar
> Beyond the Basics, they
> are as follows (p. 447): indicative 15618,
> subjunctive 1858, imperative 1631,
> optative 68. However, when I checked the numbers
> with Bibloi 8.00 program,
> I got differing results. For example, according to
> Bibloi, there are 1820
> imperatives in the NT. Difference between that
> number and 1631 is huge.
> 
> Antti Mustakallio
> PhD student
> Department of Biblical Studies
> University of Helsinki
> Finland
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