[B-Greek] It will be done (with transliteration)
Barry
nebarry at verizon.net
Thu May 20 15:53:45 EDT 2010
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From: "Steve Miller" <steve_miller at sil.org>
To: <b-greek at lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 20, 2010 3:26 PM
Subject: [B-Greek] It will be done (with transliteration)
> Mt 9:29:
>
> ???? ????? ??? ???????? ????? ????? ???? ??? ?????? ???? ???????? ????
> TOTE hHYATO TWN OFQALMWN AUTWN LEGWN KATA THN PISTIN hUMWN GENHQHTW hUMIN.
>
> I'm very new at Greek, and I've been wrestling with ???????? for a few
> days now. BDAG lists this as an imperative of GINOMAI. Fair enough. But
> the imperative doesn't really come across in any of the English
> translations I've looked at. I would have expected something more like
> "You believe, so be healed." Searching more, BDAG has an entry that
> specifically addresses this verse (bottom of p.197, under sense 4): "w.
> adv. or adv. phrase added.../according to your faith let it be done to
> you/, i.e. /you believe, and you won't be disappointed./ The phrase
> "won't be disappointed" was completely unexpected. Can anyone shed some
> light on this?
Steve, you are apparently using a proprietary Greek font, since it didn't
come through on my system (and I have unicode nicely set up).
I just looked at several different English translations, including the KJV,
all they all used a variety of "be it done for you" or "let it be done for
you," which is pretty much the only way to render the third person singular
imperative somewhat literally into English. The "won't be disappointed
phrase sounds like some sort of interpretative addition or commentary by
BAGD.
N.E. Barry Hofstetter
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