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Basic New Testament GreekEddy LanzRawalpindi

Eved Adonai - Is 53:112013

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ContentsPreface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xi

1 Letters of the Alphabet 11.1 The Letters of the Greek Alphabet . . . . . . . . 1

1.1.1 Capital and Lowercase Letters . . . . . . 11.1.2 The Sounds of the Letters . . . . . . . . . 21.1.3 Other Writing and Speaking Signs . . . . 6

1.2 Vocabulary - All Letters in these Words . . . . . 7

2 Aspects and Durative 92.1 The Aspects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92.2 Abbreviations for Verb Form Tables . . . . . . . 102.3 The Durative Stem - Present . . . . . . . . . . . . 10

2.3.1 Durative Stem Usage . . . . . . . . . . . 102.3.2 Present Active Indicative Forms V-PAI . . 122.3.3 Present Tense Indicative of . . . . . . 13

2.4 Vocabulary - Conjugation of -Verbs . . . . . . . 13

3 Future and 2. Declension 153.1 The Future Tense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

3.1.1 Future Tense Usage . . . . . . . . . . . . 15

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3.1.2 Future Active Indicative Forms V-FAI . . 163.2 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

3.2.1 Grammatical Terms Related to Nouns . . 163.2.2 Some Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . 173.2.3 The Second or O-Declension Masculine . 17

3.3 Vocabulary - 2. Declension Masculine . . . . . . 18

4 The Durative Stem - Imperfect 194.1 The Usage of the Imperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . 194.2 Imperfect Active Indicative Forms V-IAI . . . . . 204.3 Imperfect Indicative Forms of . . . . . . . . 214.4 The Second or O-Declension Neuter . . . . . . . 214.5 Vocabulary - 2. Declension Neuter . . . . . . . . 22

5 Aorist and 1. Declension 235.1 Aorist Aspect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

5.1.1 The Usage of the Aorist Aspect . . . . . . 235.1.2 Aorist Active Indicative Forms V-AAI . . 24

5.2 The First or A-Declension Feminine . . . . . . . 255.3 Vocabulary - 1. Declension . . . . . . . . . . . . 25

6 The Perfect 296.1 The Perfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29

6.1.1 The Resultative Aspect . . . . . . . . . . 296.1.2 The Usage of the Perfect Active Indicative 306.1.3 Perfect Active Indicative Forms V-RAI . . 30

6.2 Vocabulary - Small Words I . . . . . . . . . . . . 31

7 Pluperfect and 3. Declension 337.1 The Pluperfect . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

7.1.1 The Usage of the Pluperfect . . . . . . . . 33

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7.1.2 Pluperfect Active Indicative Forms V-LAI 347.2 Third Declension Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34

7.2.1 Endings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 347.2.2 Stems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 357.2.3 Examples . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

7.3 Vocabulary - 3. Declension Nouns . . . . . . . . 36

8 Subj + Nomin + Vocat 398.1 The Subjunctive Mood . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

8.1.1 The Usage of the Subjunctive . . . . . . . 398.1.2 Present Active Subjunctive Forms V-PAS 428.1.3 Aorist Active Subjunctive Forms V-AAS . 42

8.2 Uses of the Nominative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 428.2.1 Main Uses of the Nominative . . . . . . . 428.2.2 Independent Uses of the Nominative . . . 43

8.3 Uses of the Vocative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 448.3.1 Vocative as Direct Address . . . . . . . . 448.3.2 Vocative in Apposition . . . . . . . . . . 448.3.3 Adjective in Attributive Position . . . . . 44

8.4 Vocabulary - Small Words II . . . . . . . . . . . 44

9 Imperatives and Genitives 479.1 Use of the Imperatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 479.2 Active Imperatives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48

9.2.1 Present Active Imperatives V-PAM . . . . 489.2.2 Aorist Active Imperatives V-AAM . . . . 49

9.3 Uses of the Genitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499.3.1 The Real Genitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . 499.3.2 The Ablatival Genitive . . . . . . . . . . 50

9.4 Vocabulary - Prepositions I . . . . . . . . . . . . 51

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10 The Infinitive 5310.1 Uses of the Infinitive . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

10.1.1 Anarthrous Infinitives . . . . . . . . . . . 5410.1.2 Articular Infinitives . . . . . . . . . . . . 54

10.2 The Active Infinitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5510.3 Vocabulary - Prepositions II . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

11 The Participles 5711.1 Uses of the Participle . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57

11.1.1 Adverbial Participles . . . . . . . . . . . 5811.1.2 Predicative Participles . . . . . . . . . . . 5911.1.3 Attributive Participles . . . . . . . . . . . 60

11.2 Active Participle Forms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6011.2.1 Present V-PAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6011.2.2 Future V-FAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6111.2.3 Aorist V-AAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6111.2.4 Perfect V-RAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61

11.3 Vocabulary - 1.+2. Decl. Adjectives . . . . . . . 62

12 Pres+Impf Pass Ind + Con Verbs 6512.1 Present Passive Indicative V-PPI . . . . . . . . . 6512.2 Imperfect Passive Indicative V-IPI . . . . . . . . 6612.3 Forms of Contracted Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . 66

12.3.1 Present Active+ Passive Indicative of 6712.3.2 Imperfect Active + Passive Indicative of

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6712.3.3 Present Active+ Passive Indicative of 6712.3.4 Imperfect Active + Passive Indicative of

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6812.3.5 Present Active+ Passive Indicative of 68

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12.3.6 Imperfect Active + Passive Indicative of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68

12.4 Vocabulary - Contracted Verbs . . . . . . . . . . 69

13 Fut + Aor Pass Ind + Dative 7113.1 Future Passive Indicative V-FPI . . . . . . . . . . 7113.2 Aorist Passive Indicative V-API . . . . . . . . . . 7213.3 Uses of the Dative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72

13.3.1 The Real Dative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7313.3.2 The Instrumental Dative . . . . . . . . . . 7313.3.3 The Local Dative . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74

13.4 Vocabulary - Deponent Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . 74

14 Perf+Pluperf Pass Ind + Acc 7714.1 Perfect Passive Indicative V-RPI . . . . . . . . . 7714.2 Pluperfect Passive Indicative V-LPI . . . . . . . . 7814.3 Uses of the Accusative . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78

14.3.1 Substantival Uses of the Accusative . . . 7914.3.2 Adverbial Uses of the Accusative . . . . . 79

14.4 Vocabulary - Numbers etc. . . . . . . . . . . . . 80

15 Pres + Aor Pass Subjunctive 8115.1 Present Passive Subjunctive V-PPS . . . . . . . . 8115.2 Aorist Passive Subjunctive V-APS . . . . . . . . 8215.3 The -Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8215.4 Vocabulary - -Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83

16 Present + Aorist Passive Impv. 8516.1 Present Passive Imperative V-PPM . . . . . . . . 8516.2 Aorist Passive Imperative V-APM . . . . . . . . 8616.3 Passive Infinitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86

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16.4 Vocabulary - Small Words III . . . . . . . . . . . 86

17 Passive Participles 8917.1 Present Passive Participle V-PPP . . . . . . . . . 8917.2 Future Passive Participle V-FPP . . . . . . . . . . 9017.3 Aorist Passive Participle V-APP . . . . . . . . . . 9017.4 Perfect Passive Participle V-RPP . . . . . . . . . 9117.5 Vocabulary - Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91

18 The Middle Indicative 9318.1 Future Middle Indicative V-FMI . . . . . . . . . 9318.2 Aorist Middle Indicative V-AMI . . . . . . . . . 9418.3 Vocabulary - Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94

19 Middle Subjunctive + Impv. 9519.1 Aorist Middle Subjunctive + Imperative . . . . . 95

19.1.1 Aorist Middle Subjunctive V-AMS . . . . 9519.1.2 Aorist Middle Imperative V-AMM . . . . 96

19.2 Vocabulary - Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96

20 Middle Inf. + Part 9920.1 The Middle Infinitives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9920.2 The Middle Participles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99

20.2.1 Future Middle Participle V-FMP . . . . . 9920.2.2 Aorist Middle Participle V-AMP . . . . . 100

20.3 Personal Pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10020.4 Vocabulary - Concluding Grace . . . . . . . . . . 101

A Most Frequent Words 103A.1 About this Word List . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103A.2 Words occurring 50 or more times (293) . . . . . 104A.3 Words occurring 46 to 49 times (24) . . . . . . . 123

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A.4 Words occurring 42 to 45 times (24) . . . . . . . 125A.5 Words occurring 38 to 41 times (28) . . . . . . . 126A.6 Words occurring 34 to 37 times (28) . . . . . . . 128A.7 Words occurring 32 to 33 times (21) . . . . . . . 130A.8 Words occurring 30 to 31 times (22) . . . . . . . 132A.9 Words occurring 28 to 29 times (24) . . . . . . . 133A.10 Words occurring 26 to 27 times (25) . . . . . . . 135A.11 Words occurring 25 times (16) . . . . . . . . . . 137A.12 Words occurring 24 times (16) . . . . . . . . . . 138A.13 Words occurring 23 times (20) . . . . . . . . . . 139A.14 Words occurring 22 times (16) . . . . . . . . . . 141A.15 Words occurring 21 times (19) . . . . . . . . . . 142A.16 Words occurring 20 times (14) . . . . . . . . . . 144A.17 Words occurring 19 times (23) . . . . . . . . . . 145A.18 Words occurring 18 times (35) . . . . . . . . . . 147A.19 Words occurring 17 times (36) . . . . . . . . . . 150A.20 Words occurring 16 times (38) . . . . . . . . . . 152A.21 Words oc