Parsing of ἐμεγάλυνεν in Lk 1:58
Posted: February 15th, 2025, 9:21 am
Hello. I've just bought a copy of the Guided Annotating edition of the Tyndale Greek New Testament. In addition to space for notes, this has a glossary with parsing at the foot of each page, and I was puzzled to find the following note on the form ἐμεγάλυνεν in Lk 1:58
μεγαλύνω - vb 3rd sg, aor act indic
I would have assumed that ἐμεγάλυνεν was an imperfect rather than a second aorist, based on its having the same stem as the present. However, my Greek is undoubtedly rusty - I’m old enough to have learned it at school, which is why I wanted bigger print than my old pocket-sized GNTs - so I wondered if I was missing something. But BADG gives the form ἐμεγάλυνον as the imperfect, and the Middle Liddell states ‘only in pres. and impf.’ The Android app I mostly use - BART - also parses it as aorist, but translates it as ‘was magnifying’ which seems contradictory. The Word desktop software, on the other hand, parses it as imperfect, as I would have expected. Is this just a mistake, or am I still missing something?
μεγαλύνω - vb 3rd sg, aor act indic
I would have assumed that ἐμεγάλυνεν was an imperfect rather than a second aorist, based on its having the same stem as the present. However, my Greek is undoubtedly rusty - I’m old enough to have learned it at school, which is why I wanted bigger print than my old pocket-sized GNTs - so I wondered if I was missing something. But BADG gives the form ἐμεγάλυνον as the imperfect, and the Middle Liddell states ‘only in pres. and impf.’ The Android app I mostly use - BART - also parses it as aorist, but translates it as ‘was magnifying’ which seems contradictory. The Word desktop software, on the other hand, parses it as imperfect, as I would have expected. Is this just a mistake, or am I still missing something?