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Rom 16:7 — Ἰουνίαν / Ἰουνιᾶν

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ἀσπάσασθε Ἀνδρόνικον καὶ Ἰουνίαν τοὺς συγγενεῖς μου καὶ συναιχμαλώτους μου, οἵτινές εἰσιν ἐπίσημοι ἐν τοῖς ἀποστόλοις, οἳ καὶ πρὸ ἐμοῦ γέγοναν ἐν Χριστῷ.

BSB: “Greet Andronicus and Junia, my fellow countrymen and fellow prisoners. They are outstanding among the apostles, and they were in Christ before I was.”

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Printed reading

Ἰουνίαν

Iounian

Junia (feminine accusative)

Tischendorf 8 prints Ἰουνίαν, but his note names no manuscript for this accent; it records Latin Iuliam and a chronicle, not an accent collation.

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Alternative 1

Ἰουνιᾶν

Iounian

Junias (masculine accusative, contracted)

No manuscript is named in Tischendorf 8 for the circumflex accent Ἰουνιᾶν. The form is the NA28 editorial accent.

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Witness-dates timeline: pending sourcing. The dates are not yet backed by a sourced witness registry, so the timeline is hidden; the witnesses for each reading are listed above.

Decision

✓ Approved

Printed: Ἰουνίαν
Confidence: high (team scale)
Significance: meaning
Byz / TR: Ἰουνίαν — open RP2018

Editorial decision: print Ἰουνίαν, with SBLGNT. Confidence high for the print choice. Uncertain The person’s sex is not named in the verse. Junia as a woman is the natural reading of the printed form; Junias is the alternative. That lean is taken here. The Latin Iuliam readings and the chronicle’s list of holy women are not used as a manuscript accent collation.

Evidence

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Editions: SBLGNT; RP2018 (Byz); Scrivener 1894 (TR). WH, Treg, and NA28 alignment follows the SBLGNT apparatus; NA28 is cited by reference only. Sigla: corrector notation follows Tischendorf, as explained in src.tischendorf-8.

This unit is only the accent and implied gender of the name at 16:7. SBLGNT, WH, Treg, RP, and TR print Ἰουνίαν. NA28 prints Ἰουνιᾶν. The two forms differ only in accent.

Manuscripts (Tischendorf 8, vol. 2 (1872), p. 452, leaf n459 (novumtestamentum02tisc)): the octava prints Ἰουνίαν, accented as the feminine accusative. His 16:7 note is not an accent-by-accent collation of Ἰουνίαν and Ἰουνιᾶν, and manuscript accentuation is not given there. The note records that am, the 1569 Lyons Vulgate, cop, and aeth read Iuliam. A chronicle is cited for listing both Ἰουλία (compare 16:15) and Ἰουνία among holy women who followed the apostles and were commemorated by Paul; that same notice is said not to have Iuniam. Those are Latin, versional, and onomastic reports, not evidence for one Greek accent over the other. They are therefore not listed as witnesses for either reading.

Minor variants (box lines; same page): 16:7 γέγοναν with ℵ A B and others, with SBLGNT, WH, Treg, and NA28; γεγόνασιν with C L P and many others, with RP and TR. Other nearby forms (F G ἀσπάζεσθαι, συγγενεῖς, συναιχμαλώτους) do not settle the name.

Internal: Ἰουνίαν is the ordinary accusative of the feminine name Junia. Ἰουνιᾶν is the proposed masculine Junias, often explained as a contraction of Junianus. The printed SBL form makes the feminine name the natural reading; Junias remains the alternative tied to the other accent.

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