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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 .....
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 .....
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 .....
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 the former, as in the latter, it frequently happens in the case of Study more .....
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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 Greek except in the case of eleven and twelve, Study more .....
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 .....
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 .....
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 .....
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 .....
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 πιστευω Study more .....
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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 was in some good measure unintelligible to Study more .....
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 Greek-English Lexicon of Study more .....
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Tagged Frederick William Danker, Greek lexicon, Joseph Thayer, lexicon, λέγω, λεξικόν, λεξικός, λέξις
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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 to all whose stems end in other than
The first and second declensions Study more .....
Greek Verb “To be”
The conjugation of verb to be in the indicative mood
Present
Singular
Plural
ειμι
I am
εσμεν
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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 the gender, number and case of the noun to which it belongs, according to Study more .....
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 nominative is the case of the subject. "A Study more .....
