
Explore how biblical Greek verbs function as the engine of meaning, with five components—person, number, tense, mood, and voice—driving predetermined endings through conjugations.
Identify contract verbs in biblical Greek by recognizing stems ending in alpha, epsilon, or omicron and their five predictable contraction patterns, including alpha-epsilon, omega, epsilon-yota, omicron-epsilon, and eta.
Explore how future verbs in biblical greek express upcoming action, formed by adding sigma after the stem and used in active and middle voices. Translate as will, going to, or shall, and follow a four-step process to build the tense.
Understand that imperfect verbs express past continuous time. Learn how the augment, epsilon or lengthened vowel, connecting vowel, and secondary personal endings form the imperfect in active and middle voices.
This course is designed as a second-semester course of Biblical (Koine) Greek. Assuming that students are already familiar with the Greek alphabet and some basic vocabulary, this course focuses on understanding Biblical Greek verbs.
All of the major Biblical Greek verbs will be covered in the so-called indicative mood.
· introduction to Greek verbs
· present tense
· contract verbs
· future tense
· imperfect tense
· second aorist
· first aorist
· aorist passive and aorist future
· mi verbs
· conclusion to verbal system
The lectures provided for each tense contains additional insight into things like voice (active, middle, and passive) as well as essential grammatical concepts.
By the time students finish this course, they will have a thorough understanding of the most important component to the Greek language: the verbal system.
Who should take this course? Anyone who wants to keep learning Biblical Greek. This course is ideal for students who have already taken Greek and want a refresher. It is also ideal for students who have taken Biblical Greek I at a college or seminary and want to continue learning.
Although the focus is on the Greek New Testament, students will be able to apply lessons learned that will also help them understand and translate the Greek Old Testament (called the Septuagint).
This course contains professional videos with real New Testament examples, images, and learning props. It also contains translation exercises for each lesson as well as vocabulary words. After each lesson, students are encouraged to take an interactive quiz that assesses their understanding of the lesson.
For those who want to learn the Greek alphabet, they should take the Udemy course "Learn How to Pronounce Biblical Greek," taught by Dr. Derek Cooper. For those who want to translate a book of the Greek New Testament directly, they should take the Udemy course, "Translate 2 John from Biblical Greek," also taught by Dr. Derek Cooper.
In short, this course is a one-stop-shop for those who want a refresher of Biblical Greek or who want to continue learning and improving.