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Idioms of the Greek New Testament is a ground-breaking grammar written with Stanley E. Porter’s unmatched understanding of New Testament Greek. The work aids the student of New Testament Greek in a number of ways. It can be used as an instructive handbook, as an intermediate level textbook, and as a basic reference work. The major topics of Greek grammar are treated in a helpful pedagogical...

verbs, which may display only a limited number of the three verbal paradigms). The result is that these verbs offer no meaningful choice between one aspect and another. These verbs, of which εἰμί is the primary example,1 are called aspectually vague. Aspectually vague verbs may be used in any verbal context since they do not carry the semantic weight of perfective, imperfective or stative verbal aspect. Consequently, one must be cautious in giving interpretative significance to use of one of
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