Basics of Biblical Greek Exercise 9

Exercise 9 Adjectives Parsing ¥ A bullet ( ¥ ) separates the wordÕs stem from its case ending. You donÕt have to do this. ¥ Since this is an answer key, we listed all possible parsings, even though you were only asked to list one. Inflected Case Number Gender Lexical Form Inflected Meaning ajgaq ¥ w: n Genitive Plural Masculine, Feminine, or Neuter ajgaqovV of good [men/women/things/ones] pistav ¥ V Accusative Plural Feminine pistovV faithful [women] kakw: ¥ / Dative Singular Masculine or Neuter kakovV to a bad [man/thing/one] nekrov ¥ n Nominative or Accusative Singular Neuter or Masculine nekrovV dead [man/thing/one] ejscavto ¥ uV Accusative Plural Masculine e[scatoV last [men/ones] kovsmo ¥ u Genitive Singular Masculine kovsmoV of [the] world ejntola ¥ i¾V Dative Plural Feminine ejntolhv to commandments ejm ¥ av Nominative or Accusative Plural Neuter ejmovV my [things] prw:t ¥ h/ Dative Singular Feminine prwtoV to [the] first [woman] ajllhvla ¥ V Accusative Plural Feminine ajllhvlwn each other" [referring to feminine nouns] Warm-up a. The faithful slave b. On 1 the third day g. The beloved son d. A beloved son2 1 WeÕve switched the key word from ÒtoÓ to ÒonÓ because ÒdayÓ in the dative is likely a dative of time. 2 Advanced information: Because neither the noun nor the adjective has the article, it may be possible for the adjective to be predicate rather than attributive, in which case this could be translated Òa son is beloved.Ó Although predicate adjectives are usually nominative, some grammarians think that on rare occasions an adjective in an oblique case may be predicate rather than attributive. See Wallace p. 311 and Smyth pp. 275-276 for possible examples. !14 Exercise 9 e. My word z. The sons of the evil one Ñ or Ñ The sons of evil h. But God is faithful. ! 15 Translation 1. The wordÉ will judge him in the last day. 2. And it was the third hour, and they crucified him. 3. The father raises the dead. 4. The one who sees the son and believes in him has eternal life, and I myself will raise him in the last day. 5. Do not be conquered by evil, but conquer evil with good. 6. The last will be first, and the first will be last. 7. The Lord will rescue me from every evil work and save me into his heavenly kingdom. 8. Remain in my love. If you keep my commandments, you will remain in my love, as I have kept the commandments of my father and remain in his love. This is my commandment, that you love each other as I loved you. 9. For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works which God prepared beforehand, in order that we might walk in them. 10. The good man from the good treasure brings out good things, and the evil man from the evil treasure brings out evil things. Additional 11. And Jesus said to the slave, ÒThe commandments of God are faithful and good, not evil.Ó 12. In the third day, the evil ones went out from the house of God. 13. My eyes are on the faithful ones. 14. By the last words of David, the number of the sons of Levi were taken from twenty years old and above. 15. For now I know that you fear God, and because of me did not spare your beloved son. 16. We know that it is the last hour. 17. My kingdom is not from this world. 18. If you love me, you will keep my commandments. 19. Behold, I have set before your face today life and death, good and evil. 20. The one who believes in the son has eternal life; but the one who does not believe the son will not see life, but the wrath of God remains on him.!