[B-Greek] re.. Oikos or Oikia

Jeffrey B. Gibson jgibson000 at comcast.net
Mon Mar 22 13:20:38 EST 2004



"Carl W. Conrad" wrote:

> At 8:01 AM -0600 3/22/04, Jeffrey B. Gibson wrote:
> >Paul Evans wrote:
> >
> >> B-Greekers,
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> What is it I am missing in Mark 1:29.  TEN OIKIAN?  I thought OIKOS was
> >> 2nd declension masculine!  I see that OIKIA can be used as an adjective.
> >> I guess this is a substantive of some sort, but why is the feminine used
> >> when obviously they are going into the house of Simon and Andrew?  In
> >> Mark 2:1 I see what I would expect, EN OIKW.  I don’t really understand
> >> why the difference is made.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Simple explanation:  Mark likes to use diminutives.  Have a look at his use
> >of words for "boat".
>
> With all respect, OIKIA is not a diminutive (diminutive nouns are most
> commonly neuters in -ION, although there are some other diminutive endings
> also); OIKIA and OIKOS are two words from the same root that are not
> significantly different in meaning from each other. You might check Louw &
> Nida §§ 7.2, 7.3.
>

Carl is entirely correct.  I don't know what I was thinking!

Yours,

Jeffrey
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