agios pneuma
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agios pneuma
"Pneuma" is neuter but modified by a masculine adjective. Was this a deliberate choice of the NT writers? Could they have gone with "agion" or "agie" just as well?
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Re: agios pneuma
Can you cite an example? As you've phrased I'd take it to mean "holy in spirit", with a specifying accusative. Normally random gender switching is not allowed.Pietro wrote:"Pneuma" is neuter but modified by a masculine adjective. Was this a deliberate choice of the NT writers? Could they have gone with "agion" or "agie" just as well?
And none of my NT dictionaries give any sign that the gender switches.
William S. Annis — http://www.aoidoi.org/ — http://www.scholiastae.org/
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
τίς πατέρ' αἰνήσει εἰ μὴ κακοδαίμονες υἱοί;
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I did a search on http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/~fisher/gnt/ for any occurances of [size=150]πνεῦμα[/size] next to [size=150](άγιος[/size]. No hits.
[size=150](αγίου, (αγίῳ[/size] and [size=150](άγιον [/size]can be masculine or neuter. Maybe this caused a mix-up?
Ps(1). This is my first attemt at posting a link. I hope it worked.
Ps(2). Link didn't work.?? And what's with the breathing marks?
Ps(3). Link works now. (Thanks Bennisimus!)
[size=150](αγίου, (αγίῳ[/size] and [size=150](άγιον [/size]can be masculine or neuter. Maybe this caused a mix-up?
Ps(1). This is my first attemt at posting a link. I hope it worked.
Ps(2). Link didn't work.?? And what's with the breathing marks?
Ps(3). Link works now. (Thanks Bennisimus!)
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