[b-greek] DEIGMA in Jude 7: Nominative or Accusative?

From: Randy Leedy (Rleedy@bju.edu)
Date: Wed Dec 05 2001 - 12:42:19 EST


This a somewhat arcane question of purely grammatical interest. What
do you think about DEIGMA in Jude 7? The two versions of the GRAMCORD
data that I have both parse it as accusative, as do the BibleWorks and
Friberg databases. But it looks nominative to me, a predicate renaming
the nominative subjects of of PROKEINTAI, which could perhaps be taken
either passively or intransitively. I don't see any grammatical reason
to assume that a switch to the accusative case has taken place at this
point in the sentence. In a quick pass through 16 NT & LXX occurences
of PROKEIMAI I found no instances with a predicate to compare with
this one. BDAG cites an instance from Josephus, but there, too, the
predicate is neuter and hence ambiguous as to its case. I haven't
checked the indices to my Grammars yet, but I assume if a consensus
appeared in them that such a construction should be nominative, then
the databases would show nominative. So I'm not expecting to find them
supporting my inclination to go with the nominative.

I can't put my finger on them at the moment, but it would not be
difficult to find plenty of parallel constructions with other verbs
(in addition to the obvious linking verbs) where the verb's complement
is nominative when it renames or modifies the subject.


Blessings! (Acts 3:26)

Randy Leedy
Bob Jones University
Greenville, SC
RLeedy@bju.edu

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