[B-Greek] Matt6:34: Parsing Query

Stephen Baldwin stbaldwi at hotmail.com
Tue Mar 4 21:16:19 EST 2008


Ladies and Gentlemen:
The last phrase of Matt6:34 says:
ARKETON THi hHMERAi hH KAKIA AUTHS
 
I was wondering whether anyone would care to comment on the order etc. of the words.
We have:
A [feminine] subject hH KAKIA N-S-F
A [feminine] indirect object THi hHMERAi D-S-F
A [neuter] adjective ARKETON A-S-N
A [feminine] Possessive Pronoun G-S-F
 
In looking at this assortment of words.
The neuter adjective was just plain weird but turns out to be modifying hH KAKIA, an abstract class ("trouble" in general) (Mounce "Graded Reader" quoting BDF 131).
Apart from sense, how would we associate the adjective with hH KAKIA? Because it is the subject?
The final AUTHS could refer to either KAKIA or hHMERAi could it not? Its proximity led me initially to link it with KAKIA but I don't think it is. It is related to hHMERAi I believe.
 
All-in-all, this was one of those phrases where all the words individually could be evaluated but their order and function were more obscure...
 
I was wondering whether someone could shed some light and supply some "technical language" for describing what is going on here...
 
Thanks
 
Steve Baldwin
stbaldwi at hotmail.com
 
 
 
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