[b-greek] Re: Luke 10:12

From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 19:08:11 EDT


At 3:58 PM -0700 7/7/01, B. D. Colt wrote:
>LEGW hUMIN hOTI SODOMOIS EN TEi hHMERAi
>EKEINHi ANEKTOTERON ESTAI H THi POLEI
>EKEINHi.
>
>Is it usual for place names to be plural? None of the places I looked
>said anything to explain this?

Quite a few place names in the ancient world are plural: DELFOI, AQHNAI,
QHBAI in mainland Greece, and Jerusalem more often than not in the GNT is
hIEROSOLUMA, a neuter plural.
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