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BBG 25: Perfect Indicative

Wed, 18 Apr 2012 02:12:01 GMT

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

Download Verb Paradigms Chart

Review Aorist and Future Passives

In English we form past and future passives by using helping verbs, e.g. ‘you were taken’ and ‘you will be taken’ respectively
- See Appendix on p. 351 (3rd edition)
- This is how we will translate the Aorist and Future passives
Both are built on the 6th Principal Part (aka Tense Form)
- e.g. λύω, λύσω, ἔλυσα, -, -, ἐλύθην
- We will learn the 4th and 5th Principal Parts (Perfect Active, Perfect Middle/Passive) next chapter

BBG 24: Aorist and Future Passive

Tue, 10 Apr 2012 07:00:00 GMT

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

Download Verb Paradigms Chart

Review First Aorist

1st Aorist is the regular form
- Most Greek verbs follow this pattern
  - The 2nd Aorist alters the Tense Stem from the Present (usually to Verbal Root)
  - The 1st Aorist does not alter the Present Tense Stem, but instead uses the Tense Formative σα
  - 1st Aorist Tense Stem is usually identical to Present Tense Stem
- There is no difference in meaning between the 1st and 2nd Aorist — Simple Past
- Aspect of the Aorist is Undefined
- All Aorists have the Augment ε, and therefore all use Secondary Endings

BBG 23: 1st Aorist

Tue, 27 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

Review quiz on chapter 21
Review workbook exercises on chapter 22
Download Verb Paradigms Chart

Review The Second Aorist

Definition of Aorist (ἀορίστος) : Undefined aspect usually in past time
- The Aorist is not punctiliar by nature (22.19)
- Etymology of “Aorist”
  - Alpha privative (negation) examples (atheist, agnostic, amoral, etc.)
  - verb ὁρίζω – determine, appoint, fix, set limits to, define
  - α + ὁριστος = undefined
- Translate as English simple past tense, e.g. “I ate” “I ran”
- Indefinite – states only the fact that the action occurred, and nothing else
- Compare with Imperfect which says something very definite about the action, viz. that its aspect is continuous

BBG 22: 2nd Aorist

Tue, 20 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

Download Verb Paradigms Chart

Review Imperfect Indictative

Imperfect Tense: Aspect = Continuous, Time = Past
- As you would expect, there are 3 different Greek tenses which express action in past time, one for each aspect: Imperfect (Continuous), Aorist (Simple), and Pluperfect (Completed) [rarely used]
- Aspect is usually the most important element of the Greek verb. The Future Tense is the exception to this rule.
The Imperfect tense occurs only in the Indicative Mood
Formed with: Augment (ε) + Present Tense Stem + Connecting Vowel + Secondary endings

BBG 21: Imperfect Indicative

Tue, 13 Mar 2012 07:00:00 GMT

ὁ διδάσκαλος λέγε “χαῖρετε μαθηταί” καἱ οἱ μαθηταί λέγουσι “χαῖρε διδάσκαλε”

Review and Addenda

Review of English Verb in Mounce p. 353
Download Verb Paradigms Chart

Review of Verbal Roots and Tense Stems (20.2-5)

The Verbal Root is most basic form of a verb, it is not the same as the Verbal Tense Stem

Sturtevant Study Sheets

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 17:16:14 GMT

Lord's Prayer

Sat, 10 Sep 2011 22:39:54 GMT

The Lord’s Prayer
Πάτερ ἡμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς·
ἁγιασθήτω τὸ ὄνομά σου· ἐλθέτω ἡ βασιλεία σου· γενηθήτω τὸ θέλημά σου, ὡς ἐν οὐρανῷ καὶ ἐπὶ γῆς·
τὸν ἄρτον ἡμῶν τὸν ἐπιούσιον δὸς ἡμῖν σήμερον·
καὶ ἄφες ἡμῖν τὰ ὀφειλήματα ἡμῶν, ὡς καὶ ἡμεῖς ἀφήκαμεν τοῖς ὀφειλέταις ἡμῶν·
καὶ μὴ εἰσενέγκῃς ἡμᾶς εἰς πειρασμόν, ἀλλὰ ῥῦσαι ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ πονηροῦ.
ὅτι σοῦ ἐστιν ἡ βασιλεία καὶ ἡ δύναμις καὶ ἡ δοξα εἰς τοὺς αἰῶνας.
ἀμήν.

Institute of Biblical Greek

Sat, 21 Mar 2009 16:24:53 GMT

Enclitics and the Rules of Accent

Sat, 05 Nov 2011 07:00:00 GMT

This question has been raised:

“On #8 in parsing on the worksheet for chapter ten, the “τινες” has no accent.
We can’t figure out how we ought to parse it, since both of the identical words in the book have accents [one on the penult, one on the ultima.]"

The confusion has to do with the nature of enclitics, as they relate to the rules of accent.

The indefinite pronoun, (τις, τι) is enclitic (throws its accent back), like most forms of εἰμι (BBG 8.12).

The Importance of Biblical Languages

Wed, 15 Aug 2007 13:28:38 GMT

An excerpt from: “To the Councilmen of All Cities in Germany That They Establish and Maintain Christian Schools” (1524) by Dr. Martin Luther

“All right,” you say again, "suppose we do have schools; what is the use of teaching Latin, Greek, and Hebrew, and the other liberal arts?