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Verb: Luo medio-passive subjunctive
Luo medio-passive subjunctive is a verb topic in Koine (biblical) Greek. This page gathers its forms, paradigms, and function, drawn from the lessons of Reading Greek Deeply.
MorphologyVerb – Luo medio-passive subjunctive
- The Luo med-psv subj lengthens the theme vowel of the ind forms.
- The vowel in the ind 2s form was already long, so the subj form is identical.
| Singular | Plural | |
|---|---|---|
| 1st | πορεύ-ωμαι | πορευ-ώμεθα |
| 2nd | πορεύ-ῃ | πορεύ-ησθε |
| 3rd | πορεύ-ηται | πορεύ-ωνται |
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SemanticsVerb – Subjunctive (5 – Questioning obligations)
Subjunctives are often used in interrogative clauses to question obligations. One of the most famous examples of this is where Jesus is questioned about whether the Jews should pay taxes to Caesar or not:
- (280) Questioning obligations
- δῶμεν ἤ μὴ δῶμεν; (Mark 12:14)
- Should we give or not give ?
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