[B-Greek] Question on 1 Peter 3:9 TOUNATION
George F Somsel
gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Fri Jun 22 15:26:33 EDT 2007
Sorry, I wasn't around when this happened so I can't say.
george
gfsomsel
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From: Jerry Reimer <Jerry at lsm.org>
To: Calvin Lindstrom <pclindstrom at yahoo.com>; B-Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 2:14:16 PM
Subject: Re: [B-Greek] Question on 1 Peter 3:9 TOUNATION
Just a word (probably too late; others have spoken very well already) on the mechanics.
The omicron of the definite article (to) has come into close contact with the initial vowel (epsilon) of enantion, the word that follows the article. Thus, there is contraction (called crasis: transliteration of the Greek word krasis meaning mixture; when vowels get mixed up with each other a third thing comes out). The omicron and the epsilon contract and produce upsilon. Acdcording to Dana and Mantey (page 86), in printed Greek texts there will be a coronis (looks like a smooth breating mark) above the vowel which came out of the contraction (in this case, an upsilon). The upsilon which comes out of the mix should not be confused with the genitive form of the definite article as if it were a combination of tou and enantion.
A further question that I would like to pose is, is this phenomenon (crasis) an example of spoken Greek becoming written Greek? That is, is crasis ephonically derived or is this a long-standing, classical (or Homeric) item? Even if it is an ancient issue, is it something that was moved out of common speech into written texts? Since it is common for any speaker of any language to run words together, is that what is happening here in I Peter and elsewhere when crasis gets involved?
Jerry Reimer
-----Original Message-----
From: Calvin Lindstrom [mailto:pclindstrom at yahoo.com]
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:27 AM
To: B-Greek
Subject: [B-Greek] Question on 1 Peter 3:9 TOUNATION
I have a question on the usage and derivation of TOUNANTION in 1
Peter 3:9. Accordance Bible Software notes it as being from the
article and parses it as accusative, neuter, singular. I don't
understand this derivation. Any insight others might provide would be
appreciated.
Calvin Lindstrom
Church of Christian Liberty
Arlington Heights, IL
www.christianliberty.com
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