From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Mon Jan 01 2001 - 20:11:34 EST
At 12:15 AM +0000 1/2/01, Mark Wilson wrote:
>Looking through my new BDAG, I ran across some
>Greek "abbreviations" that I am a little confused about.
>
>I think they are the interrogative and indefinite pronouns, but
>some of them seem a bit awkward to me, and at times, when I would
>have expected TIS, BDAG uses "someone." There must be something
>I am overlooking.
>
>Here are a few examples:
>
>EPANAPAUOMAI
>2. to find well-being or inner security, find rest, comfort,
>support TINI in someth.
>
>Does this mean to support "someone" in something (some endeavor)?
>
It's middle voice (i.e. 'deponent'). I think it means "I find inner peace
in SOMETHING" (remember that TINI can be neuter, not just masc. or fem.).
>EPIDEIKNUMI
>1. to cause to be seen, show, point out TINA TI someth. to someone
>
>This usage is hard for me to understand. Are TINA and TI to be taken
>together?
Yes, there are lots of verbs that take a double accusative, as, for
example, ERWTAW "ask someone something (i.e. a question). So here: "show
someone something."
>What has contributed to my confusion is a definition like:
>
>ENWPION
>1. pert. to a position in front of an entity, before someone or someth.
>
>In this example, they do not use a Greek pronoun for "someone"?
But it will take a genitive: ENWPION MOU "in front of me"--I rather think
this is usually with a personal genitive: ENWPION TOU KAISAROS "in front of
Caesar."
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