[B-Greek] Question about the 1st person plural form of *PERIPATE inpresent active indicative

Daniel Nordlund res90sx5 at verizon.net
Sat Mar 1 11:59:16 EST 2008


Matthew,

PERIPATWMEN in 1 John 1:6 is in the subjunctive mood.

Hope this is helpful,

Dan

Daniel Nordlund
Bothell, WA

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> Subject: [B-Greek] Question about the 1st person plural form of *PERIPATE inpresent
> active indicative
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> For the verbal root PERIPATE, how is the 1st person plural formed in the
> present active indicative?
> 
> My answer would be this: the epsilon at the end of the root, along with the
> connecting vowel (omicron) should contract to form OU.  Then add the
> personal ending (-MEN) to arrive at PERIPATOUMEN.  This answer seems to be
> consistent with the presentation in Mounce's BBG.
> 
> However, I notice that 1 John 1:6 has the form as PERIPATWMEN.
> 
> The best I can come up with for this discrepancy is that possibly the verbal
> root has a consonontal iota added to form the present tense stem, and so the
> omicron-iota combination would contract to an omega, and then the epsilon on
> the root would contract into the omega.  But this is pure speculation on my
> part.
> 
> Thanks for your help,
> 
> Matthew
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