[B-Greek] Passive Construction

Eddie Mishoe edmishoe at yahoo.com
Fri Feb 16 09:29:00 EST 2007


John:

Yes. It just so happens that I'm reading that very
thing in Caragounis' new book. He lists Mt. 15:2,
NIPTONTAI TAS CEIRAS, as well as several other verses
(Acts 7:58, 26:21, Eph. 5.16, Ti 2:7). He procedes to
indicate that such a usage is because of a lack of
understanding the 'fine distinctions' of the Attic. 

However, I'd like to have someone explain why the
transitivity of a verb affects its voice. Dr. Conrad?,
Dr. Buth?, etc.

Eddie Mishoe

--- CTCE <jfs at jfsanders.com> wrote:

> I have a question concerning the passive
> construction in Greek.  This pertains to transitive
> verbs only.  I do not have an example at my
> fingertips, but there are examples where the
> transitive verb in the middle voice is passive in
> construction, that is, the direction of the verb
> refers back to the subject and the agent directing
> the verb is in an oblique case.  (I saw examples in
> Funk, but I do not recall the place to cite the
> reference). 
> 
>  
> 
> Is this true of all transitive verbs in the middle
> voice?  Or, to put it in another way, are there
> examples where a transitive verb in the middle voice
> has a direct object (and consequently, the flow is
> from the subject to the object, with the
> "middleness" of the verb emphasized?
> 
> 
> 
> John Sanders
> 
> Suzhou, China
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