[B-Greek] Luke 3:5: KAI hAI TRACEIAI EIS hODOUS LEIAS

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Fri Jun 8 11:22:53 EDT 2007


On Jun 8, 2007, at 7:56 AM, Jonathan Robie wrote:

> Luke 3:5 KAI hAI TRACEIAI EIS hODOUS LEIAS
> Luke 3:5 καὶ αἱ τραχεῖαι εἰς ὁδοὺς  
> λείας
>
> I assume that TRACEIAI refers to rough roads here, and that the  
> literal
> meaning is something like, "and the rough shall be changed to smooth
> roads", forcing both the Greek and English reader to look to the  
> context
> to figure out that it's talking about rough roads.
>
> I also assume that the meaning would be unchanged if it had said  
> KAI hAI
> TRACEIAI hODOUS EIS hODOUS LEIAS (καὶ αἱ τραχεῖαι  
> εἰς ὁδοὺς λείας).
>
> True? Or am I missing something? Could this also refer to rough
> mountainous terrain, which will be transformed into perfectly smooth
> paved roads?

Yes, except that it would be KAI hAI TRACEIAI hODOI EIS
hODOUS LEIAS; i.e. TRACEIAI is nominative and implies
a nominative hODOI.


Carl W. Conrad
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