[B-Greek] Two Greek expressions in Luke 2
Jonathan Robie
jwrobie at mindspring.com
Wed Jun 6 07:40:37 EDT 2007
I guess it's obvious to people that I'm working through Luke ;->
According to Zerwick, KAT ETOS (κατ ἔτος, used in Luke 2:41) means "every year", and occurs only here in the GNT. Can KAT also be combined with other time frames, e.g. KAT hHMERAS (κατ ἡμέρας)? Is it any particular kind of Greek, e.g. particularly educated or regional, or why doesn't this common phrase occur in the GNT?
Also, in Luke 2:44, the phrase HLQON hHMERAS hODON (ἦλθον ἡμέρας ὁδὸν) makes perfect sense to me as long as I don't try to think about it analytically, but when I do, hHMERAS and hODON both look like nouns to me, and are tagged as such in the version of Tauber's morphologically tagged GNT that I'm looking at. Should I think of this as a fixed expression, or is there a way that nouns like these combine that I don't grok yet?
Jonathan
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