[B-Greek] Proper Name

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Wed Nov 14 04:03:37 EST 2007


On Nov 13, 2007, at 8:49 PM, Mitch Larramore wrote:

> Dr. Mounce, in giving examples of proper names with
> the article (p. 39), gives both hO IHSOUS and hO QEOS.
> I've been taught that QEOS is a title, not a name. How
> is QEOS a proper name?

Because it is USED that way: hO QEOS is used as a vocative in the  
nominative, and occasionally (more often in the LXX) we find the  
vocative QEE used.


Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)





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