[B-Greek] QEOPREPESTATOU

Philemon Zachariou ntgreek at att.net
Tue Apr 26 14:37:49 EDT 2011


Θεοπρεπής, Θεοπρεπέστερος, Θεοπρεπέστατος

The third form, theoprepestatos, is a superlative.
Θεοπρεπεστάτου is the superlative form in the genitive.

Philemon Zachariou




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From: Refe Tuma <refetuma at gmail.com>
To: b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org
Sent: Monday, April 25, 2011 7:47 AM
Subject: [B-Greek] QEOPREPESTATOU

I have just begun to translate the letters of Ignatius, starting with his
letter to the Magnesians. Already in the first chapter I have come across a
form that I can't identify! Maybe you folks can help me out.

Here is the phrase:

KATACIWQEIS GAR QEOPREPESTATOU
καταξιωθεὶς γὰρ θεοπρεπεστάτου

The word form is QEOPREPESTATOU (θεοπρεπεστάτου) which BGAD has listed under
QEOPREPHS with a gloss for the verse in Ignatius: "a name that resounds to
the glory of God."

Any one have any idea why this word is in this form? It's obviously genitive
singular, but if it is really a form of QEOPREPHS, shouldn't that make it
QEOPREPHTOS? thanks to BGAD my translation isn't suffering, but it still
bugs me that I can't recognize this word/form.

Thanks,

RHFIOS - Refe
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