G2444 — ἵνα τί
(so L WH uniformly, also Tr except (by mistake?) in [Mat 27:46]), and written unitedly ἱνατί (so Rec.st bez G T uniformly; see Winers Grammar, § 5, 2); Latinutquid? i. e. for what purpose? wherefore? why? an elliptical formula, due to the fact that a questioner begins an answer to his own question with the word ἵνα, but not knowing how to complete it reverts again to the question, as if to ask what will complete the answer: that (what?) may or might happen (ut (quid?)fiat orfieret); see Herm. ad Vig., p. 847; Kühner, § 587,5 ii., p. 1020; Winers Grammar, § 25, 1 at the end; (Buttmann, § 149, 2): [Mat 9:4]; [Mat 27:46]; [Luk 13:7]; [Act 4:25]; [Act 7:26]; [1Co 10:29]. Add, from the Sept., [Gen 4:6]; [Gen 25:32]; [Gen 27:46]; [Num 14:3]; [Num 22:32] (Ald.); [Jdg 6:13] (Alex., Ald., Complutensian); [1Sa 1:8]; [2Sa 3:24]; [2Sa 15:19]; [Job 3:12]; [Job 10:18]; [Jer 2:29]; [Jer 14:19]; [Jer 15:18]; [Dan 10:20] (Theod.); [Isa 2:1]; [Isa 10:1] (Isaiah 9:22); [Isa 21:2] ([Isa 22:2]), etc.; Sir. 14:3; 1 Macc. 2:7. (Aristophanes, nub. 1192; Plato, Apology c. 14, p. 26 c.; others.)