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NT Greek Vocabulary
A.T. Robertson active adjective Adjectives Aorist Aorist Indicative benefacere bonus castitas certamen Ernest De Witt Burton Friedrich Wilhelm Blass Future Indicative Georg Benedikt Winer Hebrew ignorantia ignotus Imperfect Indicative iniquitas laus Present Indicative sanctificare sanctificatio sanctus verb vigilare Κοινή θαυμαζω πάντες τις ܐܚܐ ܐܡܢ ܒܐܫ ܕܒܪ ܕܟܐ ܕܡ ܚܒ ܚܛܐ ܣܟܠ ܥܘܠ ܥܩ ܨܕ ܩܕܫ ܫܒܚ ܫܘܩܐ
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Aorist Indicative: The Dramatic Aorist
The Aorist Indicative is sometimes used of a state of mind just reached, or of an act expressive of it. The effect is to give to the statement greater vividness than is given by the more usual Present. Luke 16:4.; … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Epistolary Aorist
The writer of a letter sometimes puts himself in the place of his reader and describes as past that which is to himself present, but which will be past to his reader. Eph. 6:22; ὃν ἔπεμψα πρὸς ὑμᾶς εἰς αὐτὸ … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Gnomic Aorist
The Aorist is used in proverbs and comparisons where the English commonly uses a General Present. 1 Pet. 1:24; ἐξηράνθη ὁ χόρτος, καὶ τὸ ἄνθος ἐξέπεσεν, the grass withereth and the flower falleth. See also Luke 7:35; John 15:6; Jas. … Continue reading
Aorist Indicative: The Resultative Aorist
The Aorist of a verb whose Present implies effort or intention, commonly denotes the success of the effort. Acts 27:43; ὁ δὲ ἑκατοντάρχης βουλόμενος διασῶσαι τὸν Παῦλον ἐκώλυσεν αὐτοὺς τοῦ βουλήματος, but the centurion Study more …..
Aorist Indicative: The Inceptive Aorist
(1) The Aorist of a verb whose Present denotes a state or condition, commonly denotes the beginning of that state. 2 Cor. 8:9; δι’ ὑμᾶς ἐπτώχευσεν πλούσιος ὤν, though he was rich, for your sakes he became poor. See also … Continue reading
