Thus, to the third question, “What is its voice?” there are three possible answers: active, middle, or passive. In the New Testament, the active voice is far and away the most common, with 20,697 occurrences. The passive has only 3,933 occurrences, and the middle has even fewer—a mere 3,500. Greek speakers could regard action in three fundamentally different ways. This is called aspect. Most often an action was regarded as simple or undefined. The common term for this kind of action is aoristic