Casus pendens, non-verbal predicate and subject

[Paul Younan]

Shlama Akhay,

A rather frequent and marked syntactical structure in all Semitic languages is as follows:

(1) A "Casus Pendens", followed by
(2) A Non-Verbal Predicate, followed by
(3) The Subject

Examples of this syntactical structure from the Hebrew TaNaKh abound. In order to demonstrate that translational Greek (i.e., that of the LXX) followed this peculiar order word-for-word, I have presented an example below from the MSS and LXX: (more to come in the following days <!-- s --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s -->)

Genesis 3:12

ydmv httn rH' hH'h (Casus Pendens)
'wh (Non-Verbal Predicate)
??vh ??m yl hntn (Subject)

hJ gun?? ??n ??dwav met ??mo?? (Casus Pendens)
a??tj (Non-Verbal Predicate)
moi ??dwken ???p?? to?? x??lou (Subject)

The woman that you put with me (Casus Pendens)
it was she (Non-Verbal Predicate)
that gave me (fruit) from the tree. (Subject)

Now, let's look at an example from the New Testament:

Yukhanan 12:48

[font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]tllmd Flm[/font] (Casus Pendens)
[font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]Yh[/font] (Non-Verbal Predicate)
[font="Estrangelo (V1.1)"]0yrx0 0mwyb hl 0nyd[/font] (Subject)

?? l??gov ??n ??l???ljsa (Casus Pendens)
??ke??nov (Non-Verbal Predicate)
krine?? a??t??n ??n t?? ??sc???t?? ??m???r??? (Subject)

The word that I have spoken (Casus Pendens)
it is it (Non-Verbal Predicate)
that will judge him on the last day. (Subject)

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