[B-Greek] EKEKRAGON in 1 Clement 34.6

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Sat Feb 9 06:04:46 EST 2008


On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:05 AM, Steven Lo Vullo wrote:

> Hi all:
>
> Just a question about the form EKEKRAGON from 1 Clement 34.6, quoting
> Is 6.3. I knew immediately that this must be a form of KRAZW. At first
> I thought it might be a pluperfect, so I checked the tagged Accordance
> text of 1 Clement and, sure enough, it was parsed as 3rd person
> plural, pluperfect active indicative. But this didn't sit right with
> me because of the ending. I checked out BDAG and there found listed
> the first aorist EKEKRAXA from Acts 24.21. From this it seemed
> probable to me that EKEKRAGON should be parsed as 3rd person plural,
> (second) aorist indicative. This is, in fact, the way it is parsed in
> the Accordance tagged LXX text of Is 6.3. Am I right to conclude that
> this is a second aorist form?

Yes; it appears in both 6:3 and 6:4 of Isaiah 6. While it may be  
derivative from a future KEKRAXOMAI, there are other reduplicated  
second aorist forms, perhaps thhe most common of which is HGAGON from  
AGW. Cf. KEKADON (Homeric) from CAZW, EKEKLOMHN from KELOMAI (there's  
also a first aor. EKELHSAMHN). TETUKON (Ionic) from TEUCW. For  
reduplication in 2 aorist forms see Smyth §§439, 448, 494, 549.

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






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