342 Table of Greek Correlatives, iviih Explanations. 



Latin form, quis, quis, quid. — It ought here to be observed, in regard 

 to the interrogatives generally", that they are sometimes employed in 

 the indirect inquiry. Thus 1. lis. Acts 21 : 33. 2. noisgog, Horn. 

 II. V. 85. John 7 : 17. 3. ndaog, Acts 21 : 20. 4. nolog, John 12 : 33. 

 6. 7T7]Uxog, Gal. 6: 11. 7. tI, Mat. 21 : 16. 8. 7t6&sv, Luke 13: 25. 

 9. 7T0V, Mat. 2 : 4. 12. nSrs, Mark 13 : 33. 14. nCog, Mat. 6 : 28. This 

 use of the interrogative makes a sort of transition or approximation 

 to the relative, but must be carefully distinguished from it. 



The IV. column, which is nearly complete, consists of indefinites, 

 a class of words more easy to apprehend by usage, than to describe 

 by definition. They are said to denote an object, in a general man- 

 ner, without expressly indicating a particular individual. The Greek 

 indefinites have three shades of meaning, which in other languages 

 are distinguished from each other. Thus 1. ilg is either (1.) an uni- 

 versal indefinite, i. q. Lat. qicisquam, 'Eng. any one; 1 Cor. 6 : 1. 

 Rom. 5 : 7 init. (2.) a particular indefinite, i. q. Lat. aliqvis, Eng. 

 some one ; Acts 3 : 5. Rom. 5 : 7. fin. or (3.) a particular indefinite, so 

 described, although definitely known, i. q. Lat. quidam, Eng. a cer- 

 tain one ; Luke 8 : 27, 49. 12. Trori signifies either (1.) at any time, 

 Lat. unquam, Eph. 5:29. Heb. 1:5, 13. {2.) at some time, Lat. 

 aliquando, Luke 22:32. or (3.) c^ a certain time, Lat. quondam, 

 Eph. 2: 13. — The form of the Greek indefinites agrees with that of 

 the interrogatives in every respect, except that the interrogatives 

 have the accent nearer to the beginning of the word, and the indefi- 

 nites nearer to the end. 



The V. and VI. columns consist of negatives, which are formed 

 directly from the indefinites in their first and leading import. The 

 V. column is formed by ov, (Sansc. vi, vaJiis,) to express objective or 

 absolute negation, and the VI. column is formed by f^iri, (Sansc. ma,) to 

 express subjective or conditional negation. I am not aware that this 

 distinction exists in any other language. 



Rem, 5. There are other forms compounded of [^ri interrogative, 

 which must not be confi)unded with these made up of ;W^ negative ; 

 as {irixig, John 4 : 33. /urinore, John 7 : 26. 



The VII. column consists o{ relatives, a class of words which per- 

 form a very important office in connecting discourse. As they serve 

 to subjoin one sentence to another which is previous, they have by- 

 some writers been properly- called subjunctives. The relative ele- 

 ment in Greek consists of an aspiration or rough breathing, which I 

 regard as a softening of the hard palatal in the interrogative class. 

 In some other languages, as the Latin and the Teutonic, the inter- 

 rogative and relative agree substantially in form, the principal differ- 

 ence being in the accent or intonation. That the interrojjative is 



