[B-Greek] BBG: appendix Errors, Good MI verbs
Randall Buth
randallbuth at gmail.com
Mon Aug 6 06:58:38 EDT 2007
>>I am somewhat puzzled that in a book titled _Basics of Biblical
Greek_ Mounce would include a form which does not appear in the NT or
even in the LXX. >>
actually, the form ESTANAI needs to come up front and center. This
picks up and illustrates another thread on MI verbs from last week.
Students should know how to say 'to stand' and to understand it in speech.
ESTANAI is one of those most basic words that a student cannot do without.
How can someone learn beginning Greek and not be able to say to themselves
"I don't want to stand, I need to sit"?
pretty basic:
OU QELW ESTANAI, DEI ME KAQISAI (KAQHSQAI also good).
and incidently ESTANAI occurs 3xx in GNT, (not to mention LXX,
Josephus, and everywhere someone writes enough Greek to say "to
stand")
I recommend teaching Greek so that students can at least STAND or SIT in Greek.
PS: the form belongs to the PARAKEIMENOS (perfect) but as a "second"
perfect it does not need to distinguish DIAQESEIS (voices). BBG is
technically wrong to call it middle-passive, but It is irrelevant to
call it 'active', it is functionally rather 'middle' and intransitive,
by its nature of existing as a 2 perfect. Semantically it functions
like ENESTWS (present tense) and/or PARATATIKH OPSIS (imperfective
aspect)
Cf Lk 13:25 ἑστάναι καὶ κρούειν τὴν θύραν
ESTANAI KAI KROUEIN THN QURAN.
standing and knocking on the door
Ac 12:14 ἀπήγγειλεν ἑστάναι τὸν Πέτρον πρὸ τοῦ πυλῶνος
APHGGEILEN ESTANAI TON PETRON PRO TOU PULWNOS
reported that Peter was standing outside the the gate
1Cor 10:12 ὁ δοκῶν ἑστάναι βλεπέτω μὴ πέσῃ
the one thinking to be standing should be careful that he not fall.
Things may look different when viewed by usage rather than by paradigm.
--
Randall Buth, PhD
www.biblicalulpan.org
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