Week 10 Concepts Flashcards
Pure Dative: Indirect Object
Indicates the one for whom or in whose interest an act is performed.
eg. “Give glory TO GOD.”
Pure Dative: Personal Interest (Advantage or Disadvantage)
Denotes the person to whose benefit or detriment a verbal action occurs.
Advantage eg. “like a bride adorned FOR HER HUSBAND.”
Disadvantage eg. “held a grudge AGAINST HIM.”
Pure Dative: Reference or Respect
Limits the extent to which something is presented as true, qualifying a statement that would otherwise not be true.
eg. “he died TO SIN once for all.”
Pure Dative: Possession
Unique construction in which the dative possesses the subject of an equative verb (such as εἰμι or γίνομαι).
eg. ῾θμῖν γάρ ἐστιν ἡ ἑπαγγελία (“For the promise is FOR YOU.”)
Locative Dative: Place
Pinpoints the literal physical location of a noun in the dative case.
eg. “sitting IN A CIRCLE.”
Locative Dative: Sphere
Identifies the figurative or metaphorical location.
eg. “sighing deeply IN HIS SPIRIT.”
Locative Dative: Time
Indicates the point in time at which the action of a verb is accomplished.
eg. “ON THE THIRD DAY a wedding took place,”
Instrumental Dative: Means
Denotes the impersonal means by which the action of a given verb is accomplished.
eg. “cutting himself WITH STONES.”
Instrumental Dative: Manner
Denotes the manner in which the action of a given verb is accomplished.
eg. “He was OPENLY talking about this.”
Instrumental Dative: Agency
Denotes the personal agency by which the action of a given verb is accomplished.
eg. “but if you are led BY THE SPIRIT.”
Instrumental Dative: Association
Denotes the person or thing with which a person is associated or by which a person is accompanied.
eg. “having been buried WITH HIM IN BAPTISM.”
Other Datives: Cause
Indicates the basis or reason of the action of a given verb, whether external (occasion) or internal (motivation).
eg. “here I am dying (because) of hunger.”
Other Datives: Cognate Dative
Use of a dative noun that is a cognate (of the same stem) to the verb it modifies either formally or conceptually.
eg. “they were UTTERLY ASTONISHED.”
Other Datives: Apposition
Two related substantives refer to the same person or thing.
eg. “by Beelzebul, THE PRINCE OF DEMONS.”
Other Datives: Direct Object
The dative occurs after certain verbs of trusting (πιστεύω), obeying (ὐπακούω, ἀπειθέω), serving (διακονέω, δουλεύω), worshipping (προσκυνέω, λατρεύω), thanksgiving (εὐχαριστέω), and following (ἀκαλουθέω) and functions as the direct object.
eg. “we always THANK GOD.”
