New Testament Phrases
Progressive Grammar Examples I
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New Testament PhrasesProgressive Grammar Examples I |
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Selected is: Progressive Grammar Examples I . Looking at simple sentences.
| ὁ δοῦλος οὐ μέvει | The slave not remains | John 8.35 Noun as a subject in the nominative case. Whenever we se 'οὐ' the phrase sentence is made negative |
| ἀγαπῶ τὸν θεόν | I love God | 1 John 4.20 Noun as an object in the accusative case |
| ὁ λόγος τοῦ θεοῦ | The word of God | Rev. 19.13 The genitive of possesion |
| εἶπεν τῳ παραλελυμένῳ | He said to the paralytic | Luke 5.24 Example of dative case |
| ὦ ἄνθρωπε! | O Man! | Rom. 2.1 Use of vocative case |
| τὰ πρόβατά μου | The sheep of me == my sheep | Common idiomatic use of μου |
| τὸ τέκνον αὐτῆς | the child of her | idiomatic use of αὐτόσ = he, she or it |
| αἱ ἁμαρτιαι αὐτῶν | the sins of them == their sins | idiomatic use of αὐτόσ = he, she or it |
| σὺ εἷ Πετρος | thou art Peter | Matt. 16.18 A verb must agree with its nominative case in number and person. Exception: a neuter plural can take a singular verb! |
| ὁ ἀγρός ἐστιν ὁ κόσμος | The Field is the world | Matt. 13.38 simple sentence - noun verb noun |
| εὐλογητὸς ὁ Θεος καὶ πατὴρ | blessed [is] the God and father | Eph. 1.3 As in English, the verb 'to be' is commonly ommitted |
| Χριστὸς ὑπὲρ ἡυῶν ἀπέθανεν | Christ died for us | Romans 5.8 ὑπὲρ governs either the Gen. - as here - or the Accusative case. When it governs the Genitive it means 'on behalf of', the Accusative, 'above' |
| σὺ εἶ ὁ υἱὸς θεου, σὺ βασιλεὺς εἷ τοῦ Ἰσραήλ | you (sing.) are the son of God, you are the king of Israel | John 1.49 'σὺ' is not needed for the understanding, it ephasises 'you' |
| οὗτος μέγας κληθήσεται ἐν τῇ βασιλείᾳ τῶν οὺρανῶν | he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven | Matt. 5.19 'ἐν' governs the dative case. |
| πρὶν Ἀβραὰμ γένεσθαι ἐγὼ εἰμί | before Abraham came into being, I am | John 8.58 Here the verb 'to be' is used substansively rather than copulatively |