Paul Danove, «A Comparison Of The Usage Of Akouw And Akouw- Compounds In The Septuagint And New Testament», Vol. 14 (2001) 65-86
This study characterizes all occurrences of
a0kou/w and seven related verbs (a0ntakou/w,
diakou/w, ei0sakou/w,
e0nakou/w, e0pakou/w,
parakou/w, and u9pakou/w)
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
a0kou/w 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 syntactic case of noun phrase objects of
the noted a0kou/w-compounds. The discussion
concludes by comparing the distribution of noun phrase objects in
particular syntactic cases within the Septuagint and New Testament.
A Comparison of the Usage of ajkouvw and ajkouvw-Compounds 69
The object (cor)relative clause has eight occurrences and is translated
«hear about 8:»
plhqo~ polu; ajkouvonte~ o{sa ejpoivei h\lqon pro;~ aujtovn
`
A great crowd, hearing about the things that he was doing, came to him
(Mark 3:8b).
The object eij interrogative clause appears only in Acts 19:2b and is
translated «hear whether:»
oiJ de; [ei\pon] pro~ aujtovn, jAllæ oujdæ eij pneu`ma a{gion e[stin hjkouv-
;
samen
But they [said] to him, «We did not even hear whether [/that] there is
a holy spirit.»
1.2.3. Intransitive Usages [88 occurrences]
Intransitive occurrences of the topic construction of ajkouvw may be
either active or passive voice. In the active, the object denoting the topic
is definite and null. In the passive, the experiencer is indefinite and null.
Examination reveals 79 active intransitive occurrences 9:
akousa~ de; oJ jIhsou'~ ajnecwvrhsen ejkei'qen ejn ploivw/ eij~ e[rhmon
jv
topon katæ ijdivan: kai; ajkouvsante~ oiJ o[cloi hjkolouvqhsan aujtw'/ pezh'/
v
apo; tw'n povlewn
j
But hearing [about John’s death (14:1-12)] Jesus went away from there
in a boat to a deserted place by himself; and hearing [about Jesus going
away from there in a boat to a deserted place by himself] the crowds followed
him on foot from the towns (Matt 14:13).
There are two passive voice topic usages of ajkouvw, with the subject
either a noun phrase or a o{ti clause. The subject noun phrase has five
occurrences 10:
8
Object (cor)relative clauses (active, indirect): 1 Sam 2:22; 31:11; 1 Macc 5:56; Isa
33:13; 37:11; Mark 3:8; Luke 4:23; Acts 28:22
9
Object definite and null (surface intransitive, active, indirect): Gen 21:26; 34:7;
35:22; 47:5; Exod 15:14; Num 21:1; 30:8a, 8b, 9, 12, 15, 16; 33:40; Deut 4:32; 17:13;
19:20; 21:21; 30:12; Josh 2:11; 7:9; 9:1; 11:1; Judg 9:46; 1 Sam 14:27; 16:2; 22:1;
23:25; 25:39; 2 Sam 3:28; 5:18; 10:7; 17:9a, 9b; 19:3; 1 Kgs 11:43; 15:21; 2 Kgs 9:30;
19:25 [A]; 21:12; 1 Chr 14:8; 19:8; 2 Chr 10:2; 16:5; 2 Esdr 12:10, 19; 16:16; Jdt 4:6;
8:1; 15:1, 5; 1 Macc 4:3; 9:43; 10:2, 10 [A], 26, 68; 11:15, 22; 2 Macc 14:18; Ps 91:12
[A, R]; Job 29:11; Wis 8:15; Sir 22:26; Isa 37:1; Bel 28; Matt 14:13a, 13b; Mark 3:21;
6:14, 29; 10:41; 11:18; Acts 5:5b; 14:14; Rom 10:14b; 15:21; Phil 1:30; Col 1:9.
10
Subject noun phrases (passive, indirect): 2 Chr 26:15; Nah 2:14; Isa 60:18; Matt
28:14; 1 Cor 5:1.
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