- ἕνεκα
- ἕνεκα (Attic; PLond I, 42, 14 p. 30 [172 B.C.]; POxy 533, 25; 1293, 16f [other exx. in Mayser 242]; LXX [Thackeray 135]; OdeSol 11:17; Jos., Ant. 3, 107; this form Ac 26:21; Mt 19:5; Lk 6:22; Ac 19:32, but unanimously attested only in Ac 26:21. Also Mt 5:10, 19:29; Mk 13:9; Lk 21:12; Ro 8:36 [all only in some mss.]; 2 Cl 1:2; MPol 17:3; Hv 1, 3, 1; m 12, 4, 2), ἕνεκεν (increasingly prominent fr. III B.C. on: it is the prevailing form in ins [Meisterhans3-Schw. 217; Threatte II 666–68; Thieme 8; Hauser 21]; pap [Mayser 241]; LXX [Thackeray 82]; TestAbr A 17 p. 99, 10 [Stone p. 46]; EpArist; Ar. [Milne 74, 24]; Tat.; Ath., R.; and our lit.; Just. has this form, but only in citations), εἵνεκεν q.v. (Sb 1568, 7 [II B.C.]; PGiss 40 II, 21; PGM 5, 385; ins since 161 A.D. [Meisterhans3-Schw. 216]; LXX [Thackeray 82f]; Lk 4:18 [Is 61:1]; 18:29 v.l.; Ac 28:20 v.l.; 2 Cor 3:10; 7:12 v.l.; Hv 3, 2, 1), εἵνεκα (O. Wilck II 1148 [II B.C.]; En 101:2; later exx. in Crönert 114; Hv 3, 1, 9; Reinhold 39f). B-D-F §30, 3; 35, 3; W-S. §5, 20c; Mlt-H. 67f; 329f; Rob. index.① functions as prep. w. gen. to indicate cause of or reason for someth., because of, on account of, for the sake of, Mt 5:10f; 10:18, 39; 16:25; 19:29; Mk 8:35; 10:29; 13:9; Lk 6:22; 9:24; 18:29; 21:12; Ac 28:20; Ro 8:36 (Ps 43:23); 14:20; 2 Cor 3:10; 7:12; 2 Cl 1:2; ITr 12:2; IPol 3:1; Pol 2:3; MPol 13:2; 17:3; Hv 1, 1, 6; 3, 1, 9; 3, 5, 2; m 5, 2, 2; 12, 4, 2; Hs 1:5; 9, 28, 5f; D 10:3; B 14:9; ἕ. τούτου for this reason (Lucian, D. Deor. 23, 2) Mt 19:5; Mk 10:7 (Gen 2:24); Hv 1, 3, 1; also ἕ. τούτων Ac 26:21 (PsSol 2:4). Used w. a rel. οὗ εἵ. (Musonius, Ep. 1, 11; Quint. Smyrn. 12, 227; PGiss 27 [117 A.D.]) Lk 4:18 (Is 61:1); τίνος ἕ.; why? (Demosth.; Menand., Epitr. 547 S. [371 Kö.]; Dio Chrys. 14 [31], 84; Tat. 9, 3) Ac 19:32; ἕ. τοῦ w. inf. foll. (Menand., Fgm. 358, 2 Kö.; Am 1:6; 2:4; 1 Esdr 8:21; Jos., Ant. 11, 293).② marker of objective or purpose, in order that ἕ. τοῦ φανερωθῆναι τὴν σπουδὴν ὑμῶν in order that your zeal might be made known 2 Cor 7:12 (B-D-F §403; Rob. 1073).—DELG. M-M.
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