[B-Greek] Luke 4:18 hOU hEINEKEN

Carl W.Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Sun Jun 17 09:48:47 EDT 2007


On Jun 17, 2007, at 9:34 AM, Carl W. Conrad wrote:

>
> On Jun 17, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Jonathan Robie wrote:
>
>> Luke 4:18 hOU hEINEKEN ECRISEN ME EUAGGELIASQAI PTWCOIS
>> Luke 4:18 οὗ εἵνεκεν ἔχρισέν με
>> εὐαγγελίσασθαι πτωχοῖς
>>
>> According to http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/b-greek/2001-March/
>> 016006.html, this apparently means "because".
>>
>> Is this some particular kind of Greek, e.g. LXX Greek or classical
>> historial Greek or some such? It seems marked
>> compared to more common ways of saying "because".
>
> This is a citation from the LXX, Isaiah 61:1-2. There are a few
> expressions in older Greek that are sometimes called "postpositions"
> because they follow upon a word, often in the genitive, which they
> govern. The most common of these are DIKHN ("like" or "in the fashion
> of"), CARIN ("for the sake of") and hENEKA ("for the sake of").
> hEINEKA or hEINEKEN is a variant of hENEKA, hENEKEN -- hENEKA is the
> primary form. The combination hOU hENEKA or hOU hEINEKEN means "for
> the sake of the fact that ... " or "because of the fact that ... "
> Occasionally we find the combined one-word formulation hOUNEKA used
> for "because." I think that's what was intended in Isaiah 61:1. The
> upshot: hOU hEINEKEN is a two-word combination that really means the
> same thing as EPEI or DIOTI or hOTI (when hOTI means "the fact being
> that ... " = because of the fact that ... "
>
> I don't know that it's really marked. It's from the LXX, which Al
> Pietersma tells us is "schoolboy Greek translation." You might
> compare the English equivalents of GNT

What I meant was the kind of English written by first-year Greek  
students who are trying to render the Greek text literally into English.

> For what it's worth the MT
> has the word Ya'aN as the particle meaning "because."
>
> Carl W. Conrad
> Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
> 1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
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Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
1989 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad2 at mac.com
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