[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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