I had Acts 5:12-32 as a reading today, and I was surprised at how the NIV translated this bit:
Διὰ δὲ τῶν χειρῶν τῶν ἀποστόλων ἐγίνετο σημεῖα καὶ τέρατα πολλὰ ἐν τῷ λαῷ· καὶ ἦσαν ὁμοθυμαδὸν πάντες / ἅπαντες ἐν τῇ Στοᾷ Σολομῶντος· τῶν δὲ λ…
εἰς τόπον χλόης, ἐκεῖ με κατεσκήνωσεν, > ἐπὶ ὕδατος > ἀναπαύσεως ἐξέθρεψέ με- 22.2
Here I’d like to know what sense you would say that ἐπὶ ὕδατος is used. Locative? Instrumental?
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καὶ τοὺς ἐχθρούς μου ἔδωκάς μοι νῶτον καὶ τοὺς μισοῦντάς με ἐξωλόθρευσας. -Ps. 17.41
Here ἔδωκάς seems to take two accusative objects (ἐχθρούς, νῶτον) along with the dative indirect object (μοι) . How should this be understood?
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ἐν τῇ παγίδι αὐτοῦ ταπεινώσει αὐτόν, κύψει καὶ πεσεῖται ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν κατακυριεῦσαι τῶν πενήτων. -Ps. 9:31
Hello, could anyone tell me what kind of grammatical structure is ἐν τῷ αὐτὸν κατακυριεῦσαι τῶν πενήτων.
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ΕΑΝ μὴ Κύριος οἰκοδομήσῃ οἶκον, εἰς μάτην ἐκοπίασαν οἱ οἰκοδομοῦντες· ἐὰν μὴ Κύριος φυλάξῃ πόλιν, εἰς μάτην ἠγρύπνησεν ὁ φυλάσσων. -Ps. 126.2 LXX
Except the Lord build the house, they that build labour in vain: except the Lord keep the ci…
I have primarily tried to learn Koine Greek in order to read my New Testament in the original language. However, I think my knowledge of Koine would be greatly helped by becoming more comfortable with other writings in Koine greek. Can any…
τί δοθείη σοι καὶ τί προστεθείη σοι > πρὸς γλῶσσαν δολίαν; -Ps. 119.3
What should be given to thee, and what should be added to thee, for [thy] crafty tongue? -Brenton >
My Greek is a bit rusty, could you tell me if πρὸς γλῶσσαν δο…
In four verses in the synoptic Gospels, the reader is presented with evidence of what seems to be a disagreement between the Evangelists about the rules of syntax. Each of the four verses, using slightly different wording, reproduces one o…
I am so confused about this sentence in Acts of John 98:
καὶ τὸν πεπηγμένον ἐξ ἀνεδράστων ἀνάγγη βιάβα καὶ ἁρμονία σοφίας·
so, ἀνάγγη, is the verb (aor.pass.ind.) and βιάβα might be predicative to the implicit subject of ἀνάγγη. What I don…
σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν σοὶ εὐδόκησα.
The aorist here is usually translated as a present i.e. “I am well-pleased” and I’m trying to understand why.
Chapter 33 of CGCG says that aorist indicative in narrative texts is used to presen…
Hi everyone.
Can someone help me with this sentence in Acts 8,19:
δότε κἀμοὶ τὴν ἐξουσίαν ταύτην ἵνα ᾧ ἐὰν ἐπιθῶ τὰς χεῖρας λαμβάνῃ πνεῦμα ἅγιον.
The official translation says: “Give me this power also, so that anyone on whom I lay my hand…
Question: Is there a concordance of the Greek New Testament that’s similar in style to the Hatch and Redpath Concordance of the Septuaguint? i.e. which lists in alphabetical order every Greek word (including stop words which Perseus doesn’…
ὅτι ἐδόλωσεν ἐνώπιον αὐτοῦ τοῦ εὑρεῖν τὴν ἀνομίαν αὐτοῦ καὶ μισῆσαι.
NETS translates this into English as “because he practiced deceipt before him, that he might find lawlessness in him and hate” but that’s a literal translation that IMO m…
Hi All,
I am new here having just joined today. I am working to acquire some facility in Koine Greek. I already have some facility with Hebrew and have just begun with Latin.
I am working my through and greatly enjoying Genesis in the LXX …
Is πνεῦμα the subject or the object of ἐπιποθεῖ?
There are several difficulties in this verse that have left me bewildered, but finding a definitive answer to this basic question about the syntax, if such a thing is possible, would help co…
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This isn’t really a question. I’m more sharing this for anyone interested in extra-Biblical books and the Greek text thereof. Third Corinthians was discovered toward the end of the 1800s in papyri from Egypt. It’s provenance is act…
Hatch-Redpath suggests that they are, while Liddell & Scott suggests that they are not (both links below). In one case we find a single entry covering both words together, in the other case two separate brief entries explaining the wor…
Greetings! I’m here to call upon the collective wisdom of this forum regarding a particularly tricky (at least for me) passage in one of Gregory Palamas’ Antirrhetikoi against Gregory Akindynos. I’ll drop the entire passage below, along wi…
Μακάριος ἀνήρ, ὃς οὐκ ἐπορεύθη ἐν βουλῇ ἀσεβῶν καὶ ἐν ὁδῷ ἁμαρτωλῶν οὐκ ἔστη καὶ ἐπὶ καθέδραν λοιμῶν οὐκ ἐκάθισεν,
ἀλλ’ ἢ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ κυρίου τὸ θέλημα αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐν τῷ νόμῳ αὐτοῦ μελετήσει ἡμέρας καὶ νυκτός.
καὶ ἔσται ὡς τὸ ξύλον τὸ πεφυτε…
This post is question, but includes a lot of research. I’m calling all Greek nerds here… if anyone has any comments or suggestions for this list below, your (constructive) criticism is welcome.
Let me begin… you don’t have to spend long in…