[B-Greek] Matt6:34: Parsing Query

George F Somsel gfsomsel at yahoo.com
Wed Mar 5 06:24:08 EST 2008


μὴ οὖν μεριμνήσητε εἰς τὴν αὔριον, ἡ γὰρ αὔριον μεριμνήσει ἑαυτῆς· ἀρκετὸν τῇ ἡμέρᾳ ἡ κακία αὐτῆς.



MH OUN MERIMNHSHTE EIS THN AURION, hH GAR AURION MERIMNHSEI hEATHS; ARKETON THi hHMERAi hH KAKIA AUTHS

131. In adjectival or pronominal predicate.  When the predicate stands for the subject conceived as a class and in the abstract, not as an individual instance or example, then classical usage puts the adjectival predicate in the neuter sing., even with subjects of another gender: οὐκ ἀγαθὸν πολυκοιρανίη. The NT exhibits only apparent examples of this construction, none at all for the fuller form μάταιόν τι, χρῆμα σοφόν, but some good instances of the parallel phenomenon in a pronominal (or comparable) predicate: τι ‘something (special)’, οὐδέν ‘(good for) nothing’, etc. In particular assertions, however, the pronoun is brought into agreement.
Blass, F., Debrunner, A., & Funk, R. W. (1961). A Greek grammar of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (72-73). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

george



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----- Original Message ----
From: Stephen Baldwin <stbaldwi at hotmail.com>
To: B- Greek <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 4, 2008 9:16:19 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] Matt6:34: Parsing Query

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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