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The Morphology of Biblical Greek shows second-year students that Greek is very regular in the way it forms words—if you know the rules. The Morphology of Biblical Greek explains, in a way second-year Greek students can understand, how Greek words are formed. It shows that Greek word formation follows a limited set of rules. Once these rules are understood, it becomes clear that forms which once...

I hate memorizing words, especially principal parts. But it seems that all I did when I was learning Greek was to memorize, or at least try to memorize. Especially those irregular forms. Question: “Why does the aorist passive of ἀκούω have a σ before the θ (ἠκούσθην)?” Answer: “It’s irregular, so memorize it.” I hate memorizing! At seminary I was introduced to Prof. William LaSor and his inductive grammar, and later to the works by Profs. Robert Funk and H.W. Smyth. It was here that I
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