[B-Greek] Periphastic construction

Carl Conrad cwconrad2 at mac.com
Fri Apr 24 17:23:20 EDT 2009


An item from BG-Bounces that evidently didn't get through regular  
channels:

From: Jerry Austin Reimer [mailto:jerry.a.reimer at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, April 24, 2009 10:11 AM
To: 'b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org'
Subject: Periphastic construction

In general, is there such a thing as a periphrastic construction with  
HLQON (or any other intransitive verb, for that matter) plus a  
participle or must the intransitive verb always be a form of EIMI?


I have John 1:31 in mind. KAGW OUK IDEIN AUTON ALL' hINA FANERWQHi TWi  
ISRAHL DIA TOUTO HLQON EGW hUDATI BAPTIZWN (HLQON plus BATIZWN). Can  
this be called periphrastic?


Not sure I did the transliteration right. Hope it is right enough.


Jerry Reimer



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