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You might. You were the one insisting it as to be one way only. Clearly it can be connective.


Ahhh, so now you've demoted the conjunction from a definite "connective" to "can be" a connective ! Keep this up & you'll eventually land where the biblical text does !


Zodhiates says: "but more frequently denoting transition or conversion, and serving to introduce something else" - Kinda' minimizing his "more frequent" data aren't you ?


No, he isn't.


Ummm, yes he is !



Yeah I can't copy and paste everything either so here is a screen shot.


Yea' - & apparently you missed the portion about "then" & "on the other hand" in your "screen-shot." You can deny the lexical data that I specifically quoted earlier - but this particular conjunction is most often translated as "moreover" or "Now".


And, of course this conjunction can denote a continuation (though kai is most often used when this is the case) - And?? What's your point? I know that! Paul is continuing his statement in v. 34 by appending another thought "on top of" v. 35...that's my whole point ??


de: but, and, now, (a connective or adversative particle)
Original Word: δέ
Part of Speech: Conjunction
Transliteration: de
Phonetic Spelling: (deh)
Short Definition: but, on the other hand, and
Definition: a weak adversative particle, generally placed second in its clause; but, on the other hand, and.


HELPS Word-studies: 1161 dé (a conjunction) – moreover, indeed now . . . , on top of this . . . , next . . .


See here: http://biblehub.com/greek/1161.htm.