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Grammatical Concepts 101 for Biblical Greek: Learning Biblical Greek Grammatical Concepts through English Grammar is unavailable, but you can change that!

Voice, tense, mood, participles. Learning biblical Greek is tough enough with a firm grasp of the building blocks of English and daunting to those without. But that’s just where many first-year students are. Through many years in the classroom, veteran language instructor Gary Long has learned that it’s in the first semester that many students get bogged down in grammatical basics. Soon...

simply as kick. Kick, represented on the page as k-i-c-k, is the lex, while the (emic) concept behind the word, ‘kick’, is the lexeme. The notion of lex(eme) is similar in Biblical Greek. The lexeme ‘reverence’ is represented in the lex ἁγ, which underlies ἅγιος holy and ἁγιασμός sanctification. Commonly, Biblical Greek grammarians give the label root to what I am here calling a lex(eme). Unlike English, however, Biblical Greek has some roots that are not a simple dictionary form. WORD is a
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