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Let the one you’ve trusted for word studies for years teach you to read the New Testament in Greek! Created by W.E. Vine, the trusted author of the world’s most-used expository dictionary, this book is a “teach yourself” course for those who have no previous knowledge of Greek. Designed especially for the layperson, you’ll start by learning the Greek alphabet and by the third lesson you’ll be...

LESSON 34 ACCENTS (1) The accents were used originally to give the correct pitch or tone to a syllable. There are three—the acute (ʹ), the grave ( ̀), the circumflex ( ̂). The acute stands only on one of the last three syllables of a word, the circumflex only on one of the last two, the grave only on the last. An accent is marked only on vowels; in diphthongs on the second vowel, as in οὕτως, οὐ̂ν.The acute and the grave are put after the aspirate or breathing, whether the rough breathing ( ̔),