translation of Gk. "cwrein"

[llama_nom]

Hails, Þiuadan!

KARA TON KAQARISMON.  My guess would be: 'bi þizai gahraineinai'.  Or
maybe more likely just 'bi gahraineinai'?  'bi' takes dative with the
sense "in accordance with", as in 'bi witoda' = KATA TON NOMON, etc.
see Streitberg II. 3(e) [
http://www.wulfila.be/lib/streitberg/1910/HTML/B019.html ].

LN



--- In gothic-l at yahoogroups.com, "thiudans" <thiudans at ...> wrote:
>
> Hails,
> 
> Making my way through the gaps in John.
> 
> cwrousai below is a pres. act. part. in nom. fem. pl. meaning
> "admitting of" or "allowing" i.e. being able to hold up to 2 or 3
> metretes of water. Gamotan (gamotandeis) "be admitted etc." would fit
> a passive meaning but I find no evidence of its use in the active or
> some such construction as *gamotnandeis or *gamotan wisandeis. Would
> Gothic prefer a periphrasis here perhaps using bairan or haban and
magan?
> 
> John 2:6
> 
> ἦσαν δὲ ἐκεῖ
λίθιναι
ὑδρίαι ἓξ
κατὰ τὸν
καθαρισμὸν
τῶν Ἰουδαίων
> κείμεναι
χωροῦσαι ἀνὰ
μετρητὰς δύο
ἢ τρεῖς
> 	
> 
> Now there were six stone waterpots set there for the Jewish custom of
> purification, containing twenty or thirty gallons each. (NASB)
> 
> So far I have:
> 
> 6. ItH wesun jainar staineine aurkiwe .q. bi tHana gahrainein Iudaie
> gasatidai...
> 
> (Note: I use the partitive genitive for stain. aurk. but .q. is
> understood as a nominative)
>


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