Re: 1 Jn 5:16, hAMARTANONTA hAMARTIAN

Jonathan Robie (jwrobie@mindspring.com)
Sun, 21 Sep 1997 06:40:43 -0400

At 11:14 AM 9/20/97 +0000, John M. Moe wrote:

>I am suprised that no one has mentioned that cognate accusitives are
>very common in Heb. I was hoping somone like Dale Wheeler might take
>this opportunity to fill in some more of our Heb. Blanks.

As a matter of fact, because it is common in Hebrew one of the grammars I
looked at claims that the cognate accusative is a Semiticism. That seems
unlikely to me, since Smyth documents it for Classical Greek.

Jonathan

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