[B-Greek] Luke 8:32 Herd of hIKANOS Pigs
Tom Moore
tom at katabiblon.com
Wed Jun 30 15:15:46 EDT 2010
Ἦν δὲ ἐκεῖ ἀγέλη χοίρων ἱκανῶν { βοσκομένων ♦ βοσκομένη } ἐν τῷ ὄρει· καὶ { παρεκάλουν ♦ παρεκάλεσαν } αὐτὸν ἵνα ἐπιτρέψῃ αὐτοῖς εἰς ἐκείνους εἰσελθεῖν. Καὶ ἐπέτρεψεν αὐτοῖς.
HN DE EKEI AGELH COIRWN hIKANWN BOSKOMENH EN TWi OREI KAI PAREKALESAN AUTON hINA EPITREYHi AUTOIS EIS EKEINOUS EISELQEIN KAI EPETREYEN AUTOIS
This may be a trivial question, but how ought we translate AGELH COIRWN hIKANWN? ("A herd of a not insignificant number of pigs"?)
I'm trying to get a sense of hIKANOS in this passage. Why might the author have chosen hIKANOS modifying COIRWN: why not modify AGELH instead ("a sizable herd of pigs"), or why not rather just use POLUS ("a herd of many pigs")?
Regards,
Tom Moore
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