[B-Greek] Secondary Personal Ending and Second Aorist of GRAFW

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Wed Apr 25 20:08:08 EDT 2007


On Apr 25, 2007, at 7:29 PM, Delbert Flora wrote:

>
> Here are two questions for you.
>
> 1. Does 'Secondary Personal Ending' mean the Indicative verb will  
> be past tense?

Only in indicative mood forms; optatives take secondary endings but  
are not referring to past time unless in indirect questions (and  
that's not very common in NT Greek.

> 2. "The Second Aorist will always have a different stem from the  
> present." (p. 196, Mounce) He lists as an example for LAMBANW  
> ELABON. He directs our attention to the back where there is a list  
> of several Second Aorists. On p. 397, he gives as an example GRAFW.  
> But it seems confusing to me. It goes like this:
>
> GRAFW I write
> (EGRAFON), GRAYW, EGRAYA, GEGRAFA, GEGRAPMAI or GEGRAMMAI, EGRAFHN
>
> Where is the Second Aorist in this list?

There is no Second Aorist ACTIVE; the orm EGRAYA is First Aorist  
active; on the other hand he may possibly be referring to EGRAFHN,  
which is often referred to as a Second Aorist Passive (as opposed to  
a First Aorist Passive form appearing sometimes in ancient Greek:  
EGRAFQHN).

Most verbs have First Aorist forms; several older verbs do have  
Second Aorist forms.


Carl W. Conrad
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