57 Distinguishing Goal and Locative Complements of New Testament... The –animate Theme appears with a +animate πρός complement only in Heb 5,7 with προσφέρω; and the πρός complement functions as a Goal. Here the Theme designates prayers and supplications; and the πρός complement designates God (the one who is able to save): [Jesus] who, in the days of his flesh, offering prayers and supplications to the one being able to save him from death with great shouts and tears… ὃς ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῆϛ σαρκὸς αὐτοῦ δεήσεις τε καὶ ἱκητερίας πρὸς τὸν δυνάμενον σῴζειν αὐτὸν ἐκ θανάτου μετὰ κραυγῆς ἰσχυρᾶς καὶ δακρύων προσενέγκας.... The occurrence in Heb 5,7 is anomalous for two reasons. First, in the remaining six occurrences of προσφέρω with a –animate Theme and a +animate Goal, the Goal consistently is realized by a dative case noun phrase11. Second, as the subsequent discussion indicates, the remaining 35 verbs of transference to a Goal with a –animate Theme and +animate Goal realize the Goal by a dative case noun phrase on 467 occasions and never by a πρός prepositional phrase. The explanation of this anomaly resides in the content and structure of the infinitive phrase in Heb 5,7. The phrase contains three words that require completion by a Goal complement, δέησις (prayer), ἱκητερία (supplication), and προσφέρω (offer). Elsewhere in the LXX and NT, the +animate Goal of δέησις is realized only by a πρός prepositional phrase (Job 16,20; Rom 10,1); and the rare ἱκητερία never appears with its Goal complement realized in biblical and antecedent literature. The phrase, “to the one being able to save him from death”, which lexically realizes the Goal of all three words, appears immediately after δέησις and ἱκητερία and is separated from προσφέρω by the Manner complement, “with great shouts and tears”. Thus, the lexical realization of the Goal complement in Heb 5,7 is deemed to satisfy the lexical requirements of its nearest governing words, specifically δέησις. The +animate Theme appears with a –animate πρός complement on three occasions with three verbs; and the πρός complement functions as a Locative. In these, the Theme designates human beings; the πρός complement designates a gate (2) and a throne (1). In the first example, “cast” cannot be completed by a Locative and requires translation by paraphrase12: Matt 2,11; 22,19; Luke 23,36; Acts 7,42; 8,18; Heb 11,4. 11 The +animate Theme / –animate πρός complement (3 occurrences): ἁρπάζω, Rev 12 12,5; βάλλω, Luke 16,20; τίθημι, Acts 3,2.