Morphology of Biblical Greek

by William D. Mounce

Publisher:

Zondervan

, 1994

Overview

The Morphology of Biblical Greek shows second-year students that Greek is very regular in the way it forms words—if you know the rules.

The Morphology of Biblical Greek explains, in a way second-year Greek students can understand, how Greek words are formed. It shows that Greek word formation follows a limited set of rules. Once these rules are understood, it becomes clear that forms which once seemed to be irregular or an exception actually follow these morphological rules. The Morphology of Biblical Greek has five parts:

• The rules that determine how Greek words change
• The rules of verb formation, from augment to personal ending
• Paradigms for every type of noun and adjective form, with all the words that belong in each category and any peculiarities of a given word
• All the verbs and principal parts, with verbs that follow the same rules grouped together
• An index of all words in the New Testament with their morphological category

The Morphology of Biblical Greek contains the most complete set of paradigms for nouns, verbs, adjectives, and pronouns available for New Testament Greek.

Key Features

• Categorizes any word that is used in the New Testament as well as others
• Utilizes the best of deductive and inductive learning styles
• Arranges verbs categorically rather than alphabetically

Contents

• Phonology
• Verbal Formation
• Indicative Tenses
• Non-Indicative “Moods”
• Noun Paradigms
• Adjective Paradigms
• Principal Parts

Top Highlights

“For example, §2.10 says that when a two-syllable word originally had a vowel-sigma-vowel pattern, the sigma dropped out but the two vowels did not contract. As far as the people of the New Testament times were concerned, the word θεσος never really occurred. The σ had dropped out many years earlier, and nowhere in the New Testament does it ever occur. But at one time the σ was there, and it explains why the ε and ο do not contract to ου in θεός.” (Page 1)

“The first vowel must be an open vowel (α, ε, η, ο, ω), and the second vowel must be a closed vowel (ι, ν) form.” (Page 4)

“It was here that I first realized that Greek was a tremendously regular language, if you know the rules.” (Page xv)

“The changes that we will be discussing are not changes you can see in the New Testament. They are changes that went into making the word appear in the form in which it now does in the New Testament.” (Page 2)

“As I learned these rules, memorization not only became easier but unnecessary in many situations, especially of principal parts. I found that it is essential to think in terms of verbal roots.” (Page xv)

Product Details

• Title: The Morphology of Biblical Greek
• Author: William D. Mounce
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Print Publication Date: 1994
• Logos Release Date: 2013
• Pages: 388
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Greek language, Biblical › Morphology; Greek language, Biblical › Dictionaries--English
• ISBNs: 9780310280095, 0310280095
• Resource ID: LLS:MORPHBBCLGRK
• Resource Type: Grammar
• Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-30T01:35:40Z

About William D. Mounce

William D Mounce (PhD, Aberdeen University) lives as a writer in Washougal, Washington. He is the President of BiblicalTraining.org, a non-profit organization offering world-class educational resources for discipleship in the local church. See www.BillMounce.com for more information. Formerly he was a preaching pastor, and prior to that a professor of New Testament and director of the Greek Program at Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. He is the author of the bestselling Greek textbook, Basics of Biblical Greek, and many other resources. He was the New Testament chair of the English Standard Version translation of the Bible, and is serving on the NIV translation committee.