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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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Category Archives: Grammar
Aorist Indicative: The Historical Aorist
(1) The Aorist Indicative is most frequently used to express a past event viewed in its entirety, simply as an event or a single fact. It has no reference to the progress of the event, or to any existing result … Continue reading
The Aorist Indicative
(1) The constant characteristic of the Aorist tense in all of its moods, including the participle, is that it represents the action denoted by it indefinitely; i.e. simply as an event, neither on the one hand picturing it in progress, … Continue reading
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Imperfect Indicative: Periphrastic Form Of Imperfect
PERIPHRASTIC FORM OF THE IMPERFECT Periphrastic Imperfects, formed by adding a Present Participle to the Imperfect of the verb eivmi,, are frequent in the New Testament, especially in the historical books. The large majority of these forms denote continued action. … Continue reading
Imperfect Indicative: The Imperfect Of Repeated Action
THE IMPERFECT OF REPEATED ACTION The Imperfect is used of customary or repeated action in past time. Acts 3:2; ὃν ἐτίθουν καθ’ ἡμέραν πρὸς τὴν θύραν τοῦ ἱεροῦ, whom they used to lay daily at the gate of the temple. … Continue reading
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Imperfect Indicative: The Conative Imperfect
THE CONATIVE IMPERFECT The Progressive Imperfect is sometimes used of action attempted, but not accomplished. Cf. THE CONATIVE PRESENT. Matt. 3:14; ὁ δὲ Ἰωάννης διεκώλυεν αὐτὸν, but he would have hindered him. See also Luke 1:59, ἐκάλουν; 15:16, ἐδίδου; Study … Continue reading
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Imperfect Indicative: The Progressive Imperfect
THE PROGRESSIVE IMPERFECT The Imperfect is used of action in progress in past time. Mark 12:41; καὶ πολλοὶ πλούσιοι ἔβαλλον πολλά, and many that were rich were casting in much. Luke 1:66; καὶ γὰρ χεὶρ κυρίου ἦν μετ’ αὐτοῦ, for … Continue reading
Present Indicative: Periphrastic Form Of The Present
PERIPHRASTIC FORM OF THE PRESENT One of the clearly marked peculiarities of the Greek of the New Testament is the frequency with which periphrastic forms composed of a Present or Perfect Participle (Luke 23:19 is quite exceptional in its use … Continue reading
Present Indicative: The Present Of Past Action Still In Progress
The Present Of Past Action Still In Progress The Present Indicative, accompanied by an adverbial expression denoting duration and referring to past time, is sometimes used in Greek, as in German, to describe an action which, beginning in past time, … Continue reading
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Present Indicative: The Present For The Future
The Present For The Future In a similar way the Present Indicative may be used to describe vividly a future event. Mark 9:31; Ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται εἰς χεῖρας ἀνθρώπων, the Son of man is delivered into the hands … Continue reading
Present Indicative: The Historical Present in Greek
The Historical Present The Present Indicative is used to describe vividly a past event in the presence of which the speaker conceives himself to be. Mark 11:27; Καὶ ἔρχονται πάλιν εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα, and they come again to Jerusalem. See also … Continue reading
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Present Indicative: The Aoristic Present
The Aoristic Present The Present Indicative is sometimes used of an action or event coincident in time with the act of speaking, and conceived of as a simple event. Most frequently the action denoted by the verb is identical with … Continue reading
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Present Indicative: The General Or Gnomic Present
The General Or Gnomic Present The Present Indicative is used to express customary actions and general truths. Matt. 7:17; οὕτως πᾶν δένδρον ἀγαθὸν καρποὺς καλοὺς ποιεῖ, τὸ δὲ σαπρὸν δένδρον καρποὺς πονηροὺς ποιεῖ, Study more …..
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Present Indicative: The Conative Present
The Conative Present The Present Indicative is occasionally used of action attempted, but not accomplished. This use is, however, not to be regarded as a distinct function of the tense. The Conative Present is merely a species of the Progressive … Continue reading
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Present Indicative: The Progressive Present
The Progressive Present The Present Indicative is used of action in progress in present time. Matt. 25:8; αἱ δὲ μωραὶ ταῖς φρονίμοις εἶπαν Δότε ἡμῖν ἐκ τοῦ ἐλαίου ὑμῶν, ὅτι αἱ λαμπάδες ἡμῶν σβέννυνται, our Study more …..
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Tenses Of The Indicative Mood
(1) The significance of the tenses of the Indicative mood may be stated in general as follows: – As respects progress: The Present and Imperfect denote action in progress; the Perfect, Pluperfect, and Future Perfect denote completed action; the Aorist … Continue reading
The Greek Tenses
The action denoted by a verb may be defined by the tense of the verb: (a) As respects its progress. Thus it may be represented as in progress, or as completed, or indefinitely, i.e., as a simple event without reference … Continue reading
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Greek Has 7 Tenses
There are seven tenses in Greek:- Present, Imperfect, Aorist, Future, Perfect, Pluperfect, Future Perfect. These tenses express both aspect (the kind of action) and time (when the action takes place), though aspect is often more primary than time in many … Continue reading
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The Greek Verb Has 4 Moods
There are four moods in the Greek verb:- the Indicative, the Subjunctive, the Optative, and the Imperative. With these are associated in the study of Syntax the Infinitive, which is, strictly speaking, a verbal noun, and the Participle, which is … Continue reading
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Symbolic Geography and Theological Irony in Revelation 11:8: Participial Modification and Spiritual Topography in Apocalyptic Greek
καὶ τὸ πτῶμα αὐτῶν ἐπὶ τῆς πλατείας τῆς πόλεως τῆς μεγάλης, ἥτις καλεῖται πνευματικῶς Σόδομα καὶ Αἴγυπτος, ὅπου καὶ ὁ Κύριος αὐτῶν ἐσταυρώθη. Subject and Location Study more …..
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Greek Grammar Lesson from Mark 7:11
Verse in Greek ὑμεῖς δὲ λέγετε· ἐὰν εἴπῃ ἄνθρωπος τῷ πατρὶ ἢ τῇ μητρί, κορβᾶν, ὅ ἐστι, δῶρον, ὃ ἐὰν ἐξ ἐμοῦ ὠφεληθῇς, Focus Topic: Conditional Clauses and Parenthetical Explanation This verse involves Study more …..
