Mastering New Testament Greek Textbook Ted Hildebrandt Baker Academic
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The ArticleWhile Greek has no indefinite article like the English “a” (e.g., a book), the Greek article, usually translated “the,” occurs throughout the New Testament although it often can be used as a substitute for a personal pronoun, demonstrative pronoun (this/that) or a relative pronoun (who/which). The article is inflected for gender, number, and case. Indeed, the article must match its noun in gender, number, and case. The article marks the gender of a noun, whether it is a first, second, or third declension noun. The article can sometimes function as a pronoun (he, she, it . . . ) and at root has a nominalizing impact on the words it goes with. Sometimes it is not translated at all especially with proper nouns (“Jesus” not “the Jesus”) or abstracts (“grace” not “the grace”). Examples:
Article Forms
Note that o[, oi[, h[, and ai[ are proclitics, each bearing no accent because it is associated so closely with (leans on) the following word. Being able to recognize the case of the article is handy, since that will also tell you the case of the accompanying noun. Thus, it is a good way to double-check whether or not you are declining a noun properly. The 2-1-2 Noun Chant (recite this so it becomes automatic)2-Declension 1-Declension 2-Declension lo lo lo lo lo lo lo You will be able to— 2. translate the various Greek prepositions and how they relate to the noun inflectional system, 3. recognize and predict when prepositions will have a letter elided,
4. identify and translate prepositions when they are compounded with other word forms, 5. master ten more high-frequency vocabulary words, and
6. memorize Jn. 1:1 in Greek. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||