Loading…

Basics of Biblical Greek: Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

The original Basics of Biblical Greek (BBG) offered instructors, students, self-learners, and home schoolers an entirely new, integrated approach to teaching and learning New Testament Greek. This third edition continues in that tradition, making use of feedback from professors, students, and home schooling moms and dads. BBG makes learning Greek a natural process, and shows from the start how an...

8.3 The function of a preposition in Greek is the same as English. There is one important fact, however, you need to understand about Greek prepositions. In Greek, the meaning of a preposition depends upon the case of its object. For example, the preposition διά means “through” if its object is in the genitive, but “on account of” if its object is in the accusative.1 The object almost always immediately follows the preposition. Some prepositions are always followed by the same case, so they
Page 57
Buy this book at Logos.com