[B-Greek] noun gender question
Harold Holmyard
hholmyard3 at earthlink.net
Sun Sep 27 20:14:24 EDT 2009
Fred,
> Someone suggested the following explanation of noun gender in Matthew
> 16:18. Would someone please let me know if there is any merit to this
> idea?
>
> "The word Peter does equal Petros and it is masculine. The reason is
> masculine is because it is talking about an individual. Jesus is talking
> to Peter, and he refers to Peter in the masculine. The word rock is
> indeed in the feminine. And I believe that it is in the feminine because
> it refers to the statement Peter made. Because it was referring to a
> statement and not a human being it had to be said in the feminine."
>
They are two different words in Greek.
Yours,
Harold Holmyard
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