[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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