[B-Greek] Jn 1:1 HN (was) cf. ESTIN

Steven Lo Vullo slovullo at mac.com
Tue May 4 16:55:38 EDT 2004


On May 4, 2004, at 3:22 PM, Oun Kwon wrote:

> Do I understand from the responses that:
>
>        HN is 'past' tense of ESTIN;
>
> while one of my resource (Interlinear Scripture Analyzer which was from
> http://www.concordant.info/ ) says
>
>       HN is 'past' tense (imperfect) of EIMI.
>
> thus ESTIN and EIMI are essentially same meaning?
>
> I thought the two are different  words (one of being about 'existing' 
> and
> another one being about 'being' (copulative).

You're Getting there. EIMI is first person singular present, ESTIN is 
third person singular present, and HN is third person singular 
imperfect. All are forms of the same word, EIMI being the "dictionary 
form" of the word, i.e., the form one would look up in a lexicon.
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Steven Lo Vullo
Madison, WI




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