[B-Greek] Plural Participle in Ps 68:32

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Feb 2 21:49:27 EST 2008


On Feb 2, 2008, at 9:46 PM, David Miller wrote:

> KAI ARESEI TW QEW hUPER MOSCON NEON KERATA EKFERONTA KAI hOPLAS
>
> I would like to translate Ps 68:32 as follows: "And it will please God
> more than a new young bull bearing horns and hoofs" with EKFERONTA  
> as an
> adjectival participle modifying MOSCON. But EKFERONTA is plural. Is  
> this
> merely a case of the number of the participle being assimilated to its
> object?

Why do you say EKFERONTA is plural? The fact is that this is the  
regular form of the accusative 3d sg. masculine participle (which  
follows 3rd declension patterns -- stem in EKFERONT- accusative  
singular ending -A.

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






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