[B-Greek] TARASSW voice

Carl W. Conrad cwconrad at artsci.wustl.edu
Tue May 29 06:15:03 EDT 2007


On May 29, 2007, at 1:04 AM, Elizabeth Kline wrote:

> I have been reading on the topic of voice for over a week now,
> starting with all the standard reference grammars including some not
> so standard like Guy Cooper, and having refreshed my memory about the
> traditional framework, today I spend several hours reading the main
> body of Carl's paper and would like to pose a question about TARASSW
> when it is used to describe a state of human consciousness either a
> single human or a group.
>
> MATT. 2:3 AKOUSAS DE hO BASILEUS hHRWiDHS ETARACQH KAI PASA
> hIEROSOLUMA MET' AUTOU
>
> It seems that hO BASILEUS hHRWiDHS is a participant in the process or
> state referred to by ETARACQH and for that reason it could be read in
> a middle sense as defined in Carl's paper.

I would characterize TARASSW/TARASSOMAI as a "middle verb" in terms  
of §3 of my account at http://www.ioa.com/~cwconrad/GrkVc.html:

3.  In lieu of the term “deponent” I would suggest that we speak  
of “middle verbs.” I would use this term for verbs whose primary  
present-tense form is middle-voice; that would include all the verbs  
that are traditionally or conventionally termed “deponent” but it  
would also include a sizable number of essentially intransitive verbs  
that display common middle-voice present-tense forms but also have a  
transitive active-voice form in the present tense, e.g.  
ἐγείρομαι (EGEIROMAI) “awake” or “rise up” with  
present active ἐγείρω (EGEIRW) “awaken” or “rouse” or  
“raise up,” or ἵσταμαι (hISTAMAI) “stand up” with  
present active ἵστημι (hISTHMI) “cause to stand” or  
“establish,” ἀγείρομαι (AGEIROMAI) “assemble  
together” with present causative active ἀγείρω (AGEIRW)  
“bring together” or “cause to gather.”

In the GNT the verb TARASSW/TARASSOMAI appears 17x: 6x active, 11x  
middle-passive. In the LXX it appears 117x: 24x active, 83x middle- 
passive.


Carl W. Conrad
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