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Greek Lessons
- Thorns That Choke: Converging Aorists and Participial Force in Luke 8:7
- The Grammar of Compassion: Voice, Place, and Affliction in Matthew 8:6
- What the Flesh Minds, What the Spirit Sets: Parallelism and Prepositional Identity in Romans 8:5
- The Ark at Ararat: Resting on the 27th Day
- Compassion on the Road: Feeding the Fainthearted (Mark 8:3)
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Tag Archives: Aorist
Aorist Indicative: The Aorist For The (English) Perfect
THE AORIST FOR THE (ENGLISH) PERFECT
(1) The Aorist is frequently used in Greek where the English idiom requires a Perfect.
Luke 19:9; Σήμερον σωτηρία τῷ οἴκῳ τούτῳ ἐγένετο, to-day is salvation come to this house.
Matt. 5:21; Ἠκούσατε ὅτι ἐρρέθη τοῖς ἀρχαίοις, ye have heard that it was said to them of old time.
Phil. 4:11; ἐγὼ γὰρ ἔμαθον ἐν οἷς εἰμι αὐτάρκης εἶναι, for I have learned in whatsoever state I am therein to be content. See also under ENGLISH EQUIVALENTS OF THE GREEK AORIST INDICATIVE.
(2) The Aorist Indicative of a few verbs is used in the New Testament to denote a present state, the result of a past act, hence with the proper force of a Greek Perfect.… Learn Koine Greek
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 represents the action indefinitely as an event or single fact; the Future is used either of action in progress like the Present, or indefinitely like the Aorist.
As respects time:
The Present and Perfect denote present time; the Imperfect, Aorist, and Pluperfect denote past time; the Future and Future Perfect denote future time.
(2) The tenses of the Indicative in general denote time relative to that of speaking.… Learn Koine Greek
