A COMPARISON OF THE USAGE OF ∆AKOUW AND ∆AKOUW-COMPOUNDS IN THE SEPTUAGINT AND NEW TESTAMENT PAUL DANOVE This study characterizes all occurrences of ajkouvw and seven related verbs (ajntakouvw, diakouvw, eijsakouvw, ejnakouvw, ejpakouvw, parakouvw, and uJpakouvw) in the Septuagint and New Testament according to their semantic and syntactic properties, develops a single set of rules to describe the distribution of noun phrase objects of these verbs, and then compares the patterns of usage of these verbs in the Septuagint and New Testament. A preliminary discussion identifies the semantic and syntactic properties necessary to describe all biblical occurrences of ajkouvw and proposes a set of descriptive rules that govern the syntactic case of its noun phrase objects. Further investigation then indicates that this same set of rules with only one minor modification also is adequate to describe the syntac- tic case of noun phrase objects of the noted ajkouvw-compounds. The dis- cussion concludes by comparing the distribution of noun phrase objects in particular syntactic cases within the Septuagint and New Testament 1. 1. akouw jv 1.1. Preliminary Observations about ajkouvw The verb, ajkouvw, requires two arguments to express its meaning, an experiencer of perception and an object of perception. It may express direct perception («hear,» «listen to») or indirect perception («hear about,» «hear of,» «hear that»). In the active voice, the subject designates the experiencer of the perception, and the object designates either what / 1 The analysis uses A. Rahlfs, ed., Septuaginta (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1935) and K. Aland et al., eds., The Greek New Testament (Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 1993). Codex Vaticanus [B] serves as the basic text for the LXX; and contributions from other manuscripts [Sinaiticus (S), A, R, V, Syro-hexaplaris (Sy)] are noted when they diverge from B. The discussion omits ajkouvw or one of its compounds when coordinated with another verb or participle with which it shares a single object: Exod 19:8; 24:3; 24:7 [with poihvsomen]; 1 Kgs 3:9 [with diakrivnw]; Job 13:1 [with oraw]; Isa 43:9 [with eijpavtwsan]; 64:3 [with ei\don]; Sus 53 [with ejpiferouvsa~]. Jv This study builds on earlier work in P. Danove, «The Theory of Construction Grammar and its Application to New Testament Greek,» in Biblical Greek Grammar and Linguistics: Open Questions in Current Research, S. E. Porter and D. A. Carlson, eds. ( JSNTSS 80; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1993), pp. 119-151, and idem, «Verbs of Experience: Toward a Lexicon Detailing the Argument Structure Assigned by Verbs,» in Linguistics and the New Testament: Critical Junctures, S. E. Porter and D. A. Carson, eds. (JSNTSS 168; SNTG 5; Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999), pp. 144-205. Filología Neotestamentaria - Vol. XIV - 2001, pp. 65-85 Facultad de Filosofía y Letras de Córdoba (España)