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The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Glossary provides concise definitions for the terminology used by The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament. Links to longer, more descriptive articles (in the The Lexham Discourse Greek New Testament: Introduction) are also provided.

Emphasis is ‘placing what is relatively the most important part of a clause in a special position in order to attract extra attention to it’. The importance of the information is determined by its value in the context, not by its postion in the clause. Emphasis is therefore viewed as the writer’s choice to place what is already the most important information in the clause in a special position in order to attract more attention to it than it would have otherwise received. It is important to understand