[B-Greek] Revelation 14:4--PARQENOI GAR EISIN
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Fri Sep 5 07:03:12 EDT 2008
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From: "Leonard Jayawardena" <leonardj at live.com>
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Subject: [B-Greek] Revelation 14:4--PARQENOI GAR EISIN
> In view of the foregoing, the meaning of PARQENOS as an "unmarried man"
> in the above-mentioned dictionary entry is based on a wrong interpretation
> of Rev. 14:4. I'd like to know whether PARQENOS is ever used in ancient
> Greek literature in reference to unmarried males. Leonard JayawardenaSri
> Lanka <<
Carl has already given you the instances cited iin BDAG, but you should
realize that ancient Greek is very flexible in this regard. A noun which is
normally masculine can be given the feminine article, and vice versa. This
is quite common, and really causes no one any difficulties.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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