ἐνένευον. The discussion whether Zacharias was deaf as well as mute is a very unimportant one, but the narrative certainly seems to imply that he was.

τὸ τί ἂν θέλοι. The τὸ is an apposition to the following sentence,—the question ‘what he might wish.’ Indirect questions are expressed by ἂν with the optative, where ἂν implies the existence of different possibilities. See Luke 6:11, διελάλουν … τί ἂν ποιήσειαν.

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Old Testament