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New Testament Greek Grammar

What Is Koine Greek

Koine Greek (Ελληνιστική Κοινή) “Hellenistic common (language)”; or ἡ κοινὴ διάλεκτος, “the common dialect” is the popular form of the Greek language spoken throughout post-Classical antiquity (c.300 BC – 300 A.D.), developing from the Attic dialect, with admixture Study more … Continue reading

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Greek Adjectives

An adjective is a word whose main syntactic role is to qualify a noun or noun phrase, giving more information about the object signified. Every word joined to a substantive, in the character or quality of an adjective, (as adjectives, … Continue reading

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The Greek Sentence

(1) The sentence is an expression of an idea and is complex. The subject and predicate are essential to the complete expression of a sentence, which may be very brief. Indeed one word may have both as απεχει (Mark 14:41). … Continue reading

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Greek Personal Pronouns: Nominative Case

The Personal Pronouns, in the Nominative Case A personal pronoun, when expressed as the subject of a verb, is usually, if not always, emphatic. (1) εγω εχω I have ο δε ιωαννης διεκωλυεν αυτον λεγων εγω χρειαν εχω υπο σου … Continue reading

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Why Should Christian Learn New Testament Greek?

That a knowledge of the New Testament in its original language is a thing to be desired by intelligent Christians none will question. No book can be thoroughly known in a translation only; and the Bible, although is known to … Continue reading

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