Deciphering BDAG
Posted: November 1st, 2012, 4:17 pm
Under the entry καταμαρτυρέω in BDAG it has; "bear witness against, testify against τί τινος testify someth. against someone..."
Why does it have τι with the acute accent and seemingly the accusative interrogative pronoun?
Why does it have τινος with no accentuation at all since in the genitive it would have it either on the penult or the ultima depending on whether it is an interrogative or an indefinite pronoun?
Do the forms of τίς that appear after a word indicate that the verbs are transitive and that they take only those forms of nouns or pronouns such as the accusative or genitive as indicated by the entry on καταμαρτυρέω?
Not looking to far down in the entries below καταμαρτυρέω in BDAG, I see κατανεύω, which means signal (usually by means of a nod) to someone.
Here τινί is presumably masc./fem. dative and no other form of the pronoun appears. Does that indicate that κατανεύω is transitive and only has its complement in the dative?
Again, not much farther down is καταξιόω. Same questions about τινά; is it its complement only to be found in the accusative?
Why does it have τι with the acute accent and seemingly the accusative interrogative pronoun?
Why does it have τινος with no accentuation at all since in the genitive it would have it either on the penult or the ultima depending on whether it is an interrogative or an indefinite pronoun?
Do the forms of τίς that appear after a word indicate that the verbs are transitive and that they take only those forms of nouns or pronouns such as the accusative or genitive as indicated by the entry on καταμαρτυρέω?
Not looking to far down in the entries below καταμαρτυρέω in BDAG, I see κατανεύω, which means signal (usually by means of a nod) to someone.
Here τινί is presumably masc./fem. dative and no other form of the pronoun appears. Does that indicate that κατανεύω is transitive and only has its complement in the dative?
Again, not much farther down is καταξιόω. Same questions about τινά; is it its complement only to be found in the accusative?