Meanings
- not comparablegrammarOf, pertaining to, or being the use of a term together with a grammatical article.
We have concluded that Paul does not distinguish between the arthrous and anarthrous use of nomos.
1989, Brice L. Martin, Christ and the Law in Paul, Brill Archive, →ISBN, page 68 - not comparablegrammarSpecifically, of a term or phrase, used with or headed by a grammatical article.
One thing to understand is that Biblical Greek grammarians have simply found the phrase “predicate position” a convenient label to describe the word structure of demonstrative + arthrous noun (with article) or arthrous noun + demonstrative
2006, Gary A. Long, Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts Through English Grammar, Hendrickson Publishers, →ISBN, page 148
Origin
- Ancient Greekἄρθρον“a joint”
- Englisharthrous
From Ancient Greek ἄρθρον (árthron, “a joint”) + -ous.
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