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 moods outside the indicative. Those Study more .....
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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 a verbal adjective. The Subjunctive, 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 .....
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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 .....
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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 .....
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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 .....
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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, particles, etc. The higher organization of speech calls Study more .....
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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 go with them, were written in the Κοινή, the "common" Study more .....
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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 εμε Study more .....
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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 doing this often intruded on the text their own interpretation Study more .....
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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 of the article. The forms ο, η, το are occasionally used in Homer Study more .....
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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 than the English a (an). Even in the New Testament we see traces of Study more .....
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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 .....
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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 the former, as in the latter, it frequently happens in the case of Study more .....
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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 Greek except in the case of eleven and twelve, Study more .....
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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 .....
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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, participles, pronouns, articles) must agree with the noun in number, Study more .....
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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). Mark 14:41 και ερχεται το τριτον και λεγει αυτοις Study more .....
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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 βαπτισθηναι Study more .....
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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 be "the most translated book in the world," is no exception. Before the invention Study more .....
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