[B-Greek] Accenting on Indeclinable Proper Names

John Sanders john.franklin.sanders at gmail.com
Wed May 11 22:05:44 EDT 2011


Perhaps nearly so.  But if you go to Matthew 1, you will see the same
phenomena with the following exceptions:

φάρες (FARES) and βόες (BOES) are PAROCETONOS (παροξύτονος).  BOES, though
is declinable with some writers and undeclinable with others.

John Sanders
Suzhou, China

On Thu, May 12, 2011 at 12:58 AM, Robert Stump <robertstump at gmail.com>wrote:

> B-Greekers-
>
> I noticed last night while reviewing the vocabulary of the first
> chapter of John's gospel that all of the indeclinable proper names
> therein are accented on the ultima. NAQANAHL, ISRAHL, IWSEF, NAZARET
> etc. Is this a coincidence or is there a pattern here that one could
> expect to see repeated elsewhere.
>
> Propter Sanguinem Agni,
> Robert Stump
> Orlando, FL
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