Some Syntactical Criteria of Translation Greek
Raymond A. Martin · Vetus Testamentum · 1960
This is especially true in the use of prepositions. While it has often been remarked 1) that translation Greek tends to use a larger amount of prepositions than does Greek which is not a translation of a Semitic original, it has not been sufficiently noted that the relative infrequency of certain prepositions is especially characteristic of translation Greek and stands in sharp contrast to normal prose Greek style. A detailed study of the relative frequency of prepositions in relation to the frequency of sv, the most frequently used preposition in translation Greek, will reveal that whenever the following prepositional constructions occur with the following relative frequencies or less, the style is characteristic of translation Greek, rather than original Greek: