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by GlennDean
March 8th, 2012, 11:53 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω
Replies: 8
Views: 6841

Re: Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω

Thanxs for the info Carl! I'm self taught in Greek so much of how I understand things is possibly incorrect (and it's showing LOL!!). May be it might be helpful if I explain how I would get the aorist active infinitive and then you could pinpoint where I'm going wrong? 1. Determine the "aorist ...
by GlennDean
March 8th, 2012, 10:19 am
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω
Replies: 8
Views: 6841

Aorist Active Infinitive of γινσωκω

Hi: I'm trying to parse the word γνωναι and Perseus, my Lexicon, and my Interlinear all say it's the aor act inf of γινσωκω. Am I forming the aor act inf correctly: "aorist active stem" + ειν (it's 2nd aorist active so that's why I'm using the ending ειν) γνω + ειν (how does this become γν...
by GlennDean
March 5th, 2012, 11:05 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Replies: 7
Views: 2194

Re: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?

Hi Louis: I'm getting the form from two places: #1: Basics of Biblical Greek by Mounce p.440 (this is 2nd Edition) #2: The Analytical Lexicon to the Greek New Testament by Mounce p. 473 What is interesting is in both books they list the imperfect middle indicative.1s as εφοβουμην, so the εο in the i...
by GlennDean
March 5th, 2012, 6:15 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?
Replies: 7
Views: 2194

Why doesn't the "eo" contract in phobeouai?

Hi: I would have expected the present active indicative.1s of the verb "to fear" to be phobovuai (i.e. phobe + o + uai ==> phobovuai since the "eo" contracts to "ov" but for some reason the "eo" doesn't contract and the present active indicative.1s of "to...
by GlennDean
March 4th, 2012, 7:40 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Can Greek words have more than two forms?
Replies: 5
Views: 1765

Re: Can Greek words have more than two forms?

Thanxs Stephen for the info - that answer a secondary question (which was could a word have two different parsings for say the subjunctive (or two for the imperative or ....)

Thanxs Louis - Perseus is great!
by GlennDean
March 4th, 2012, 1:08 pm
Forum: Grammar Questions
Topic: Can Greek words have more than two forms?
Replies: 5
Views: 1765

Can Greek words have more than two forms?

Hi: I had always thought that when a Greek word had multiple forms (for example present active indicative.2p and present active imperative.2p) it could only have two forms, one in the indicative and one in the non-indicative. But then I came across this word which seems to have three forms: the word...

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