[B-Greek] 1 Cor.16.2
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Aug 29 21:34:41 EDT 2007
No, it cannot mean "on one day of the week." I repeat basically what I said previously with a slight variation. It would be necessary for it to read
ἐν ἡμέρᾳ μιᾷ κατὰ σάββατον [EN hHMERAi MIAi KATA SABBATON]
"on one day every week"
The adjective εἷς, μίᾰ, ἕν [hEIS, MIA, hEN] would need to be preceeded by a preposition other than κατὰ [KATA], namely ἐν [EN]. It could not read σαββάτου [SABBATOU] in the genitive, but would need to be σάββατον [SABBATON] because of κατὰ [KATA], i.e. in the accusative.
Since you don't trust a NT and Patristic lexicon, here is part of the entry from LSJ, a classical lexicon. Note the part set off with *****.
h. in compd. numerals, as an ordinal, τῷ ἑνὶ καὶ τριηκοστῷ [ἔτει] [[TWi hENI KAI TRIHKOSTIWi]] Hdt.5.89, cf. Th.8.109, (s.v.l.) etc.; so in Att. Inscrr., IG2.660.30, al.: ***** later εἷς [hEIS] alone, = first *****, LxxGe.1.5; μιᾷ τοῦ μηνός ib.8.13
Liddell, H. G., Scott, R., Jones, H. S., & McKenzie, R. (1996). A Greek-English lexicon. "With a revised supplement, 1996." (Rev. and augm. throughout) (492). Oxford; New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.
george
gfsomsel
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----- Original Message ----
From: Denise Parkes <deniseparkes at hotmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Wednesday, August 29, 2007 6:48:27 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] 1 Cor.16.2
The problem with relying on dictionaries that are based entirely on the NT
and early Christian literature, is that they tend to present traditional
"in-house" and therefore, potentially biased, definitions.
So can anyone tell me whether KATA MIAN SABBATOU could ever mean "on one day
of the week"?
For example, could I use KATA MIAN SABBATOU if I was trying to compose the
following sentence in Greek: "I study on one day of the week."
Cheers,
Denise Parkes
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