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New Testament Greek Grammar

The Cases (Πτοσεις)

There are five cases in New Testament Greek that you should remember by heart: (1) nominative (case of the subject) (2) genitive (or possessive) (3) dative (conjunctive) (4) accusative (case of the object) (5) vocative (used in direct address). Τhe … Continue reading

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Nouns

Nouns in Greek have three genders: (i) masculine (ii) feminine (iii) neuter

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Greek Vowel

Vowels There are seven vowels in Greek: (1) α (2) ε (3) η (4) ι (5) ο (6) υ (7) ω Of these ε and ο are always short, and take about half the time to pronounce as η and … Continue reading

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Use of the Interrogative Pronoun τις

The pronoun τις is sometimes put for the relative; as in Latin qui and quis, and in English, who is both relative and interrogative. Examples, (1) Where τις retains its interrogative meaning, and still must be rendered in Latin by … Continue reading

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Aramaic Style of the Greek New Testament

The national Aramaic or Hebrew element influenced Greek-writing Jewish authors of the Greek New Testament in a threefold manner: (1) It is proable that the speaker or writer quite involuntarily and unconciously rendered a phrase by his mother tounge by … Continue reading

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