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Greek Lessons
- The Stillness Before the Call: Greek Grammar in a Moment of Transition
- Ascending to Teach: Grammatical Setting and Theological Foreshadowing in Matthew 5:1
- Rhetorical Inquiry and Comparative Teaching in Mark 4:30: Hortatory Subjunctives and Parabolic Framing in Greek Narrative
- The Quiet Escape: Classical and Koine Greek Meet in Luke 4:30
- Grant Boldness: Grammatical Petition and Apostolic Courage in Acts 4:29
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Author Archives: New Testament Greek
The Love That Names: Intimacy in John 11:5
The Verse in Focus (John 11:5) ἠγάπα δὲ ὁ Ἰησοῦς τὴν Μάρθαν καὶ τὴν ἀδελφὴν αὐτῆς καὶ τὸν Λάζαρον ἠγάπα: A Love of Choice and Commitment The verb ἠγάπα is the imperfect active indicative of ἀγαπάω, meaning Study more …..
Greek Grammar Lesson from Matthew 4:11
Verse in Greek Τότε ἀφίησιν αὐτὸν ὁ διάβολος, καὶ ἰδοὺ ἄγγελοι προσῆλθον καὶ διηκόνουν αὐτῷ. Focus Topic: Dramatic Present and Historical Narrative Tense Shifts This verse contains a stylistic mixture of verb tenses — Study more …..
Grammatical Analysis of Hebrews 11:4
Πίστει πλείονα θυσίαν Ἄβελ παρὰ Κάϊν προσήνεγκε τῷ Θεῷ, δι’ ἧς ἐμαρτυρήθη εἶναι δίκαιος, μαρτυροῦντος ἐπὶ τοῖς δώροις αὐτοῦ τοῦ Θεοῦ, καὶ δι’ αὐτῆς ἀποθανὼν Study more …..
NT Greek Substantive, Adjective & Adverbs
(1) The parts of speech are connected with each other more or less. It is simply mechanical to think of anything else. Adverbs bulk largely in furnishing various parts of speech in the development of language, such as prepositions, conjunctions, … Continue reading
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Tagged A.T. Robertson, adjective, adverbs, substantive, αιωνιον, απαραβατον, εκεινης, επιθετον, μειζων, μονον, μονος, νουνεχως, ομολογουμενως, ονοματα, πρῶτον, πρῶτος, υπερεκπερισσου, χαριν, χαρις
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What Is Biblical Greek
The isolated position of the Greek found in the Septuagint and the New Testament has been the problem dividing grammatical students of this literature for generations past. That the Greek Scriptures, and the small body of writings which in language … Continue reading
Greek Pronouns
Personal Pronouns First Personal Pronoun Second Personal Pronoun Singular Plural Singular Plural Nominative εγω, I ημεις, we συ, you υμεις, you Genitive εμου or μου ημων σου υμων Dative εμοι or μοι ημιν σοι υμιν Accusative … Continue reading
Punctuation In The Greek New Testament
In the edition of the New Testament down to that of Griesbach inclusive, the punctuation was not only deficient in uniformity, but was also excessive. To make the meaning clearer, editors introduced a profusion of stops, especially commas; and in … Continue reading
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Tagged colon, comma, Georg Benedikt Winer, Griesbach, Lachmann, punctuation, Tischendorf
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The Origin of the Greek Definite Article
The Sanskrit and Latin did not develop any article at all, and the Greek never developed the indefinite usage to any extent. Moreover, the Greek was slow in creating the definite article, though in Homer we do have the beginning … Continue reading
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Tagged A.T. Robertson, demonstative, relative, η, ο, ο δε, ο ην, ον δε, ον μεν, ος, ος δε, ος μεν, το
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The Indefinite Article In Greek
The Latin had no article, as the Greek has no indefinite article. Not even in the modern Greek has the indefinite article of the Teutonic and Roman tounges developed, though occasionally εις or τις is used with little more force … Continue reading
Comparison of Adjectives
There are two general forms. (1) First Form Comparative -τερος -τερα -τερον Superlative -τατος -τατη -τατον (a) These terminations are added to the adjective stem. Thus:- πιστος faithful πιστοτερος πιστοτερα πιστοτερον – Study more …..
The Voices of the Greek Verb
The system of three voices of the verb – active (transitive), passive (instransitive), and middle (i.e. transitive with the reference to the subject) – remains on the whole the same in the New Testament as in the classical language. In … Continue reading
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Tagged active, Aποκρινομαι, Friedrich Wilhelm Blass, intransitive, passive, transitive, αγαμαι, απεκριθην, απεκριναμην, αποθανουμαι, αποθνησκω, αποκριθησομαι, αποκρινουμαι, απολωλα, δραμουμαι, εδραμον, εστηκα, εστην, εστησαμην, εφανην, εφανθην, ηγασθην, θαυμαζομαι, θαυμαζω, θαυμασθησομαι, θαυμασομαι, θρεξομαι, ισταμαι, λυπουμαι, σταθησομαι, τεξοσομαι, τικτω, τυπτομαι, τυπτω, φαανθην, χαιρω
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Greek Numerals
(1) Δυο has genitive δυο, dative δυσιν (plural inflection). (2) In compounds of δεκα with units, at least from thirteen upwards, δεκα occupies the first place (this practice is more frequent in later language than in the older: in modern … Continue reading
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
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
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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Tagged A.T. Robertson, asyndeton, predicate, sentence, subject, ἀσύνδετον
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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
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
Greek Verb: Present, Indicative, Active
A Verb Ending In -ω In The Present, Indicative, Active Most Greek verbs end in ω in the first person singular of the present, indicative, active. (1) I believe πιστευω και ευθεως κραξας ο πατηρ του παιδιου μετα δακρυων ελεγεν … Continue reading
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Tagged -ω, active, Greek verb, indicative, present, verb, πιστευει, πιστευεις, πιστευετε, πιστευομεν, πιστευουσιν, πιστευω
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Hebrew-Aramaean Complexion of The New Testament Diction
The popular Greek dialect was not spoken and written by the Jews, without some intermixtures of a foreign kind. Particularly did they intermix many idioms and the general complexions of their vernacular language. Hence arose a Judaizing Greek dialect; which … Continue reading
Greek Lexicon
The word “lexicon” derives from the Greek “λεξικόν” (lexicon), neut. of “λεξικός” (lexikos), “of or for words”, from “λέξις” (lexis), “speech”, “word”, and that from “λέγω” (lego), “to say”, “to speak”. Which New Testament Greek Lexicon to buy? (1) A … Continue reading
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Tagged Frederick William Danker, Greek lexicon, Joseph Thayer, lexicon, λέγω, λεξικόν, λεξικός, λέξις
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