[B-Greek] Matt6:34: Parsing Query

Elizabeth Kline kline_dekooning at earthlink.net
Wed Mar 5 00:29:43 EST 2008


There are several questions here. RE: ARKETON nom/acc neut. sing. see  
N.Turner p. 311 Smyth #1047 and BDF #131. ARKETON a predicate  
adjective is fronted to put it in focus. Turner and BDF seem to  
indicate that this is not strictly in keeping with the classical  
idiom however


On Mar 4, 2008, at 6:16 PM, Stephen Baldwin wrote:

> 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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