In William Mounce's book, Basics of Biblical Greek, he says (Ch 18.9 1st edition): (QUOTE #1) "Deponent Verb: This is a verb that is middle or passive in form but active in meaning." In the next paragraph, he continues: (QUOTE #2) "You can tell in a verb is deponent by its lexical form... If the lexical form ends in an omega, it is not deponent (e.g. AGAPAW). If the lexical form ends in -OMAI, the verb is deponent (e.g. ERXOMAI)." Now, here is my question: The verb DUNAMAI - "I am able" has a lexical form ending in -OMAI, and thus is a deponent verb, according to QUOTE #2. But "I am able" would seem to be passive in meaning, it doesn't have me doing any sort of active action. Thus it should not be a deponent according to QUOTE #1, since it is not "active in meaning." Am I incorrectly assuming it is passive in meaning, because of the English usage? Any help would be appreciated. Erik Erik Westwig Software Engineer Palisade Corporation westwig@palisade.com --- B-Greek home page: http://metalab.unc.edu/bgreek You are currently subscribed to b-greek as: [jwrobie@mindspring.com] To unsubscribe, forward this message to leave-b-greek-327Q@franklin.oit.unc.edu To subscribe, send a message to subscribe-b-greek@franklin.oit.unc.edu