Wallace_Ablative, Verbal, and Adverbial Genitives

Question 1

What do the ablative genitives entail?

Answer 1

1. notion of separation (this is a classification of gen.)
2. Can be static (separated state), or progressive (movement away)
3. Emphasis can be either the state resulting from the separation or the cause of the separation (for the most part the ablative is being replaced in Koine by εκ or απο + the genitive)

Question 2

What is a genitive of comparison? And what are the translational glosses?

Answer 2

1. Typically comes after a comparative adjective, used to indicate comparison (common)
2. “than” (note: not every gen. after comparative adj. will be comparative because not every comparative adj. is functioning according to form; sometimes they are superlative or elative)

Question 3

What are verbal genitives?

Answer 3

1. this is a classification of gen.
2. whose head nouns involve verbal ideas (the head noun has a verb as a cognate, “βασιλευς” has “βασιλευω” as a cognate)
3. Represents subjective, objective, and plenary gen. (displays descending order of frequency)

Question 4

What is a genitive of time? And what are the translational glosses?

Answer 4

1. indicates the kind of time (or time within which the word to which it stands related takes place) (uncommon)
2. “during” or “at” or “within” (the Pharisee fasted twice during the week)
   (gen. with εκ or απο are different, with emphasis placed on the beginning)

Question 5

What are the 6 most common adjectival genitives?

Answer 5

1. Attributive
2. Content
3. Partitioned
4. Possessive
5. Apposition
6. Simple Apposition