[B-Greek] Difference between OUDEIS and MHDEIS?
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Mon Jan 28 23:49:26 EST 2008
Matthew --
You are exactly right on this one. Good observation. In fact, if you break
apart the two words, you will notice that they both were derived from the
negative particles, and they each literally mean "and not one" (OU + DE
hEIS) and (MH DE hEIS).
Sarah Madden
sarah.r.madden at gmail.com
Maryland
On Jan 28, 2008 9:02 PM, Matthew Blair <mpblair at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings all,
>
> As a beginning student of Koine Greek, please forgive what will surely be
> a
> simple question. I'm currently in Ch. 12 of Mounce's BBG, and I noticed
> in
> the vocabulary list that MHDEIS has almost the exact same "definition" as
> OUDEIS from Ch. 10 (no one/thing). I've been thinking about the
> similarity, and I'm wondering if the relationship between OUDEIS and
> MHDEIS
> is similar to the relationship between OUK and MH; specifically that a
> question beginning with OUK expects a positive answer while a question
> beginning with MH expects a negative answer.
>
> Thank you for your time,
>
> Matthew
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