Hi:
I would have expected the present active indicative.1s of the verb "to fear" to be
phobovuai (i.e. phobe + o + uai ==> phobovuai since the "eo" contracts to "ov"
but for some reason the "eo" doesn't contract and the present active indicative.1s of "to fear" is listed as
phobeouai
What is the reason for time?
Thanxs!
Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
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Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Glenn,
I'm not sure where you got the form from. The middle (=I fear) is φοβέ-ομαι = φοβοῦμαι when contracted.
I'm not sure where you got the form from. The middle (=I fear) is φοβέ-ομαι = φοβοῦμαι when contracted.
φοβέω (φέβομαι ‘flee in terror’; Hom. et al.; Wsd 17:9; Jos., Ant. 14, 456), in our lit. only pass. φοβέομαι (Hom.+; OGI 669, 59; SIG 1268 II, 17; pap, LXX, pseudepigr., Philo, Joseph., Just.; Mel., P. 98, 746 al.; Ath. 20, 2; R. 21 p. 75, 1) impf. ἐφοβούμην; 1 fut. φοβηθήσομαι; 1 aor. ἐφοβήθην (Plut., Brut. 1002 [40, 9]; M. Ant. 9, 1, 7; Jer 40:9; Jos., C. Ap. 2, 277; s. B-D-F §79).
Arndt, W., Danker, F. W., & Bauer, W. (2000). A Greek-English lexicon of the New Testament and other early Christian literature (3rd ed.) (1060). Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Hi Louis:
I'm getting the form from two places:
#1: Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce p.440 (this is 2nd Edition)
#2: The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament by Mounce p. 473
What is interesting is in both books they list the imperfect middle indicative.1s as εφοβουμην, so the εο in the imperfect has contracted to ου
I'm getting the form from two places:
#1: Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce p.440 (this is 2nd Edition)
#2: The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament by Mounce p. 473
What is interesting is in both books they list the imperfect middle indicative.1s as εφοβουμην, so the εο in the imperfect has contracted to ου
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Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
You should be aware that when Mounce and others list the verb in its lexical form, that lexical form is uncontracted. Since Mounce only lists the middle form of this verb, his glossary lists the lexical form as the uncontracted φοβέομαι.
You will never see the uncontracted forms in actual Koine texts. The uncontracted form is only for present the lexical form of the verb.
Stephen
You will never see the uncontracted forms in actual Koine texts. The uncontracted form is only for present the lexical form of the verb.
Stephen
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Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Thanxs Stephen!
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Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Herodotus is a good place to find uncontracted forms. Ionic Greek, you know. But that's not Koine.
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καὶ σὺ τὸ σὸν ποιήσεις κἀγὼ τὸ ἐμόν. ἆρον τὸ σὸν καὶ ὕπαγε.
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Jack M. Barrack Hebrew Academy
καὶ σὺ τὸ σὸν ποιήσεις κἀγὼ τὸ ἐμόν. ἆρον τὸ σὸν καὶ ὕπαγε.
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Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Reading Herodotus feels like someone took some ordinary Attic Greek and spilled a bunch of etas and other vowels into the typeset text.Barry Hofstetter wrote:Herodotus is a good place to find uncontracted forms. Ionic Greek, you know. But that's not Koine.
Stephen
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Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Actually Ionic is much easier than Attic, so much so that there was once a professor at U. of Texas (Gareth Morgan) that regularly taught Ionic dialect in the first semester of Beginning Greek, then switched over to Attic in the second semester. The paradigms are simpler in Ionic and one can then learn the peculiar rules for treatment of long-α after ε, ι, ρ in Attic. Moreover, Herodotus is a lot of fun to read; he's one of the few Greek authors that you can start almost any place in the corpus and read with interest and pleasure. It's also a halfway house toward reading Homer. I don't know if Morgan's textbook is still available, but I had a copy at one time.Stephen Carlson wrote:Reading Herodotus feels like someone took some ordinary Attic Greek and spilled a bunch of etas and other vowels into the typeset text.Barry Hofstetter wrote:Herodotus is a good place to find uncontracted forms. Ionic Greek, you know. But that's not Koine.
Stephen
οὔτοι ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς πάντα θεοὶ θνητοῖς ὑπέδειξαν,
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)
ἀλλὰ χρόνῳ ζητέοντες ἐφευρίσκουσιν ἄμεινον. (Xenophanes, Fragment 16)
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Retired)