κράτος is brute force. In Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound kratos and bia fasten Prometheus to the stone where the eagles each day eat his liver.
ἰσχύς is strength.
δύναμις is the ability to do something, often translated as a faculty.
Read LSJ on these words.
Ed Krentz
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- April 2nd, 2012, 10:15 am
- Forum: Word Meanings
- Topic: Distinction of κράτος, ἰσχύς, and δύναμις
- Replies: 5
- Views: 1946
- March 29th, 2012, 1:09 pm
- Forum: Grammar Questions
- Topic: First-look at a text
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2014
Re: First-look at a text
The best brief grammar I know is H. P. V. Nunn, A Short Syntax of New Testament Greek (Cambridge University Press, 1912 + many later imprints). It is brief, gives excellent NT examples, and includes a summary of English grammar that many American students need! You can down-load it at Textkit, http:...
- March 24th, 2012, 1:44 pm
- Forum: Teaching and Learning Greek
- Topic: Learning Greek Experience as a native Greek
- Replies: 13
- Views: 17008
Re: Learning Greek Experience as a native Greek
I liked what Nicolaos Adamou wrote about learning Greek through the Katharefousa and through many years of education. Very few Americans would have such an experience--and most not even the experience I had from 1941 on. In HS I began with Latin in my freshman year, introduced to an inflected langua...
- March 12th, 2012, 2:32 pm
- Forum: Teaching Methods
- Topic: "Method 3" A New Way to Learn and Improve your Greek
- Replies: 18
- Views: 5428
Re: "Method 3" A New Way to Learn and Improve your Greek
I have been reading this discussion with interest and a wee bit of understanding. I gather the method asks either the reader or someone else to rewrite in "Greek" words the sense of the passage that seems difficult. It seems to me that a number of things might be said about the method. 1. ...
- March 11th, 2012, 7:56 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: Greek Composition
- Replies: 12
- Views: 23292
Re: Greek Composition
Most students get to Greek or Latin composition only after they are in a Ph. D. program in classics. That was my experience, with Prof. Saul Levin as my instructor. His rules included: 1. One could only use Greek words in use in the Fifth or fourth centuries BC. 2. Be prepared to cite a text which u...
- March 8th, 2012, 1:43 pm
- Forum: Other Greek Texts
- Topic: Catenae Graecorum Patrum
- Replies: 3
- Views: 1945
Re: Catenae Graecorum Patrum
This is a marvelous resource. However, the author is a good 19th century Anglican, not a Roman Catholic. He was typical of the stress on patristics in the Anglo-Catholic (also called the Oxford Movement). The Greek language here is not Koine or NT; the fathers cited wrote much more literary Greek. T...
- February 28th, 2012, 2:48 pm
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: What Secular Greek texts do you give NT Greek students?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15183
Re: What Secular Greek texts do you give NT Greek students?
Yes, Aristobulus is only available in fragments, i.e. citations in later authors. This is true of many ancient Greek and Lartin authors. The best collection of them in Greek is Albert-Marie Denis, FRAGMENTA PSEUDEPIGRAPHICORUM QUAE SUPERSUNT GRAECA. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1970. Aristobulus is included...
- February 27th, 2012, 11:30 am
- Forum: Koine Greek Texts
- Topic: What Secular Greek texts do you give NT Greek students?
- Replies: 22
- Views: 15183
Re: What Secular Greek texts do you give NT Greek students?
I should let Louis answer this one: the #1 answer is, I think, Epictetus. Louis has a site devoted to resources for reading and studying the Enchiridion or "Manual" of Epictetus, a selection from the Stoic teacher's street lectures delivered in Rome as recorded by the historian Appian. Pa...
- February 26th, 2012, 9:50 pm
- Forum: Grammars
- Topic: Smyth "A Greek Grammar"
- Replies: 44
- Views: 28591
Re: Smyth "A Greek Grammar"
Ed Krentz: Smyth actually produced two grammars. His "A Greek Grammar for Colleges" has been updated and published by Harvard U.Press as "A Greek Grammar." He also published "A Greek Grammar for Schools and Colleges" which I used in HS back in the forties. Both were exc...
- February 22nd, 2012, 5:49 pm
- Forum: Grammars
- Topic: Smyth "A Greek Grammar"
- Replies: 44
- Views: 28591
Re: Smyth "A Greek Grammar"
No one has mentioned the grammar by Ludwig Radermacher in the Handbuch zum Neuen Testament [one can read this one for fun] or his work entitled "Koine" of volume 2 of the Geschichte der griechiscehn Sprache in the Sammlung Gösschen. Or L.Palmer's History of the Greek Language. I used to ow...