[B-Greek] Matt6:34: Parsing Query

Tom Moore tom at katabiblon.com
Wed Mar 5 00:29:06 EST 2008


I'd like to attempt to answer--not because I know what I'm talking about (I'm a novice)--but to see how well my analysis flies.

The word order is just Yoda-speak: Enough for one day, are the day's troubles. (Don't need tomorrow's troubles, too.)

ARKETON here is nominative, though, I think, rather than accusative (N-S-N instead of A-S-N).

I'm not sure why ARKETON doesn't agree in gender with KAKIA; why it is not ARKETH. However, comparing Matthew 10:25 (ARKETON TWi MAQHTHi... [It is enough for the disciple...]), I assume ARKETON + dative might be a fixed expression: It is enough, blah, blah, blah. This fixed-expression aspect of ARKETON might also, perhaps, be forcing the word order to be jumbled.

Regards,
Tom Moore

>  -------Original Message-------
>  From: Stephen Baldwin <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
>  Subject: [B-Greek] Matt6:34: Parsing Query
>  Sent: Mar 05 '08 02:16
>  
>  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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