βλασφημοῦντες

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Mike Burke Deactivated
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βλασφημοῦντες

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Is βλασφημοῦντες a nominative, plural, masculine, verb?
timothy_p_mcmahon
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Re: βλασφημοῦντες

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It's a masculine nominative plural present participle.
Mike Burke Deactivated
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Re: βλασφημοῦντες

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Thank you.

Now here's a more basic question.

Is it masculine because the soldiers were male, or because Jesus was male?
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Re: βλασφημοῦντες

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How about an even more basic question: what verse are you citing???

(The number-gender agreements are a package deal--they together apply to the same constituent that governs them, so, a plural form is not going to agree with a singular Jesus, but the plural soldiers would be OK. )
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Re: βλασφημοῦντες

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Stephen Carlson wrote:How about an even more basic question: what verse are you citing???

(The number-gender agreements are a package deal--they together apply to the same constituent that governs them, so, a plural form is not going to agree with a singular Jesus, but the plural soldiers would be OK. )
Thank you.

I was thinking of Luke 22:65.
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Re: βλασφημοῦντες

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It's masculine plural to agree with the subject, the ανδρες of v.63. The gender and number of the object are irrelevant.
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Mike, in the future, please remember that it's a requirement when discussing Greek from a particular passage to quote that passage.

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