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Greek Lessons
- Priestly Lineage and Named Authority in Acts 4:6: Apposition, Lists, and Genitive Identification in Narrative Greek
- Divine Speech and Illuminated Hearts in 2 Corinthians 4:6: Participles, Prepositions, and the Revelation of God’s Glory in Christ
- The Shallow Ground: Quick Growth, No Root in Mark 4:5
- A Glimpse of Power: The Devil’s Offer in Luke 4:5
- The Seed on the Path: Structure and Symbolism in Mark 4:4
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Category Archives: Grammar
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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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
Declension of Nouns
There are three declension of nouns i.e general forms of inflection. (1) The first declension belong to all whose stems end in α (2) The second declension belong to all whose stems end in ο (3) The third declension belong … Continue reading
Greek Verb “To be”
The conjugation of verb to be in the indicative mood Present Singular Plural ειμι I am εσμεν Study more …..
Greek Definite Article
The definite article is employed in combination with nouns, and is declined in gender, number, and case, to correspond with them. The Greek article is the same form as the demonstrative ο, η, το. The Greek article must be in … Continue reading
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
Nouns
Nouns in Greek have three genders: (i) masculine (ii) feminine (iii) neuter
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
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
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
Indefinite Article
Greeks have no indefinite article. When they wish to designate an individual in a manner undefined, they make use of τις. This usage is fully adopted in the New Testament.
Introduction To The New Testament Greek
The character of New Testament diction, although it is pretty definitely marked, was for a long mistaken, or was imperfectly and partially understood by biblical philologists. The reason for this was, the want of acquantaince with the character of the … Continue reading
