Re: Gender & number: GOMORRA, SODOMA

From: Steven R. Lo Vullo (sundoulos1@netzero.net)
Date: Fri Apr 28 2000 - 20:24:29 EDT


<x-charset iso-8859-1>David,

Others have answered the question concerning morphology. As for the
demonstrative TOUTOIS, you're right, the antecedent is not found in v. 7.
Rather, it is the masculine AGGELOUS of v. 6.

Steve LoVullo

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From: "Roe" <d.roe@t-online.de>
To: "Biblical Greek" <b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 10:30 AM
Subject: Gender & number: GOMORRA, SODOMA

> Dear list,
>
> Fribergs' AGNT (ver. 2) shows GOMORRA to be neuter plural (GOMORRWN) in
> Matt. 10:15, but the same database designates GOMORRAS as feminine
> singular in 2 Peter 2:6.
>
> Moreover, while Bauer shows SODOMA to be neuter plural, (agreeing with
> Fribergs' analysis in the NT) the BibleWorks' version of the
> CATSS-morphed LXX text lists SODOMA as feminine singular, and even
> assigns a masculine-sing. rendering in Deut. 32:32 and Ezek. 16:49, 53.
>
> Are GOMORRA and SODOMA ambiguous with respect to gender, or are we
> looking at database errors? Neither, nor?
>
> [Exegetical consideration: TOUTIOS (masc. pl.) in Jude 7 could not refer
> to an antecedent in verse 7 if all are feminine.]
>
> Thanks for any time / insight,
>
> David
>
> D. W. Roe
> Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
>
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