ἐάν: Difference between revisions

|Definition=(so early Attic Inscrr., as ''IG''12.3.20, [[εἰάν]] sometimes after B.C. 400, ib.22.28.17, cf. ''PEleph.''1.8,10 (iv B.C.)), also contr. ἤν and ἄν,<br><span class="bld">A</span> v. [[ἤν]], [[ἄν]] (B) [ᾱ], which by crasis with [[καί]] become [[κἄν]]:—[[if haply]], [[if]], regularly followed by subj.: for its use and for examples, v. [[εἰ]] B. 11, and [[ἄν]] (A) B.1.1.<br><span class="bld">II</span> in Hellenistic and late Greek, = [[ἄν]] after relative Pronouns and Conjunctions, as <b class="b3">ὃς ἐάν</b> who[[soever]], [[LXX]] ''Ge.''15.14, ''PTeb.'' 107.8 (ii B. C.), ''Ev.Matt.''5.19, al.; ὅσος ἐάν ''PPetr.''3p.120 (iii B.C.), ''Ev.Matt.''18.18; ὅστις ἐάν Ph.1.220, M.Ant.9.23; ὅπου ἐάν ''Ev.Matt.'' 8.19, etc.; ὅθεν ἐάν ''Gp.''1.3.3: followed by ind., [[LXX]] ''1 Ki.''2.14. [The second [[syllable]] of [[ἐάν]] is long, S.''OC''1407, Ar.''V.''228, Sopat.6.9.]