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- September 6th, 2025, 9:42 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 41574
Re: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
You are absolutely right about the distinction between learning vocabulary and learning grammar in Greek. I was wondering: in your experience, at what stage of learning should learners focus more on grammar (morphology) than vocabulary? And is there a method to make lemma recognition more natural? ...
- September 5th, 2025, 3:17 pm
- Forum: Beginners Forum
- Topic: Struggling with John 3:8 phrase
- Replies: 3
- Views: 103967
Re: Struggling with John 3:8 phrase
I believe it's the word order which is confusing here. In English it's not natural to say "The wind wherever wants blows". Maybe you could stretch English and say "The wind -- wherever it wants to, it blows". But in Koine Greek we can say S τὸ πνεῦμα + ὅπου θέλει V πνεῖ. Semantic...
- August 26th, 2025, 1:47 pm
- Forum: Unicode and Fonts
- Topic: Cardo rhos fixed
- Replies: 4
- Views: 706147
Re: Cardo rhos fixed
I haven't been active here for a while, so I just saw the latest post. Sorry, I didn't find the file anymore. I have also totally forgotten how I fixed it. If you want to try, you can download the google font (or the same font from some other source) and open the .ttf file with FontForge. The applic...
- August 25th, 2025, 1:50 pm
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: G2863 - κομάω in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
- Replies: 1
- Views: 26614
Re: G2863 - κομάω in the context of 1 Corinthians 11:2-16
Answers to numbered questions. 1. Yes, but if you are even semi-serious with Greek, you should at least learn to find it yourself in some online of offline Bible reading application, for PC or mobile phone. There are many of them, free, with Greek parsing. 2. It's not correct. It doesn't "stres...
- August 25th, 2025, 12:15 pm
- Forum: Other
- Topic: How much is Many? Numerics of polys πολύς...
- Replies: 3
- Views: 97815
Re: How much is Many? Numerics of polys πολύς...
In human languages in general negatives are sometimes notoriously difficult to understand. What exactly is negated, and what is the result? In this case, too, knowing what the word πολύς means in itself doesn't help much; it just means "many", "much" etc. It's not a number any mo...
- August 11th, 2025, 3:25 am
- Forum: Introductions
- Topic: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 41574
Re: Introduction - Is teaching Greek based on a fraud?
At best, it misleads. At worst, perhaps, it could actually be considered fraudulent. If you suspected you might be kicked out, why did you use that one word which has very strong and even aggressive meaning? Did you really consider as real possibility that all Ancient Greek teachers are liars? Othe...
- April 18th, 2025, 8:54 am
- Forum: Other
- Topic: σουδάριον in John 20.7
- Replies: 9
- Views: 75287
Re: σουδάριον in John 20.7
If I have understood the words correctly, then 1. It's χωρὶς which creates the translation "separate" (contra Jean above). 2. The difference may come from how χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον is interpreted. It could be possible to take it as tightly connected, χωρὶς ἐντετυλιγμένον = folded to be sepa...
- January 22nd, 2025, 12:53 pm
- Forum: New Testament
- Topic: ἁρπαγμός - a verbl noun?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 46212
Re: ἁρπαγμός - a verbl noun?
You might also want to read https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vi ... =19&t=5442. Also https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rolf_Furuli and https://www.ibiblio.org/bgreek/forum/vi ... 325#p10325. Just in case you weren't aware.
- January 5th, 2025, 7:32 am
- Forum: Vocabulary
- Topic: Miscellaneous vocabulary questions
- Replies: 3
- Views: 67724
Re: Miscellaneous vocabulary questions
A suggestion to Jonathan: while you use and cite an answering bot, could you show us the questions you fed to it, too? AI chat is a new thing and not everyone can use them, so it might be useful to show how to get relevant information from them. A suggestion to Gladys: at least some of your question...
- December 24th, 2024, 6:52 am
- Forum: What does this text mean?
- Topic: G1096 Ginomai - meaning of the word
- Replies: 7
- Views: 55822
Re: G1096 Ginomai - meaning of the word
To add to what Jonathan said -- Words get their meanings in the contexts in which they are used. On and the same word can "mean" different thing in different contexts. Even a detailed dictionary or lexicon can't exhaust all possible nuanced meanings, let alone pragmatic nuances or connotat...