Biblical Greek Vocabulary in Context

Building Competency with Words Occurring 25 Times or More

Miles V. Van Pelt

• Publisher: Zondervan Academic
• Year: 2021
• ISBN:
  9780310114673
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Reference

Biblical Greek Vocabulary in Context by Miles V. Van Pelt is designed to reinforce a student's basic Greek vocabulary by presenting words that occur twenty-five times or more in the context of the Greek New Testament.

Miles Van Pelt collates all 513 of these Greek words into approximately 200 key biblical verses and/or verse fragments to help students practice reading them in their literary context and thus improve their Greek vocabulary retention. Rather than rote memorization, Van Pelt's approach teaches word meaning through each word's naturally occurring context--the way people naturally learn languages.

The book includes two primary sections:

• The first section provides room for students to write their own glosses of the biblical verse and to parse as they feel necessary. An English translation is also provided, and any term that appears less than twenty-five times is glossed. Proper names are identified with gray text.
• The second section of the book provides the same biblical verses from the first section but with minimal room to write glosses and parse and without an English translation for aid. The end of the book includes a Greek-English lexicon of all the words occurring twenty-five times or more in the Greek New Testament.

List 1

Greek Texts
with
Translations

1. Matthew 1:2 ※ γεννάω, ὁ, δέ, καί, ἀδελφός, αὐτός

Ἀβραὰµ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἰσαάκ, Ἰσαὰκ δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἰακώβ,

Ἰακὼβ δὲ ἐγέννησεν τὸν Ἰούδαν καὶ τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς αὐτοῦ.

Abraham fathered Isaac, and Isaac fathered Jacob, and Jacob fathered Judah and his brothers.

2. Matthew 2:5 ※ ἐν, οὕτως, γάρ, γράφω, προφήτης

οἱ δὲ εἶπαν αὐτῷ, Ἐν Βηθλέεµ τῆς Ἰουδαίας· οὕτως γὰρ γέγραπται

διὰ τοῦ προφήτου·

And they told him, “In Bethlehem of Judah, for so it is written by the prophet . . .”

3. Matthew 2:21 ※ ἐγείρω, παραλαµβάνω, παιδίον, µήτηρ, εἰσέρχοµαι, εἰς, γῆ

ὁ δὲ ἐγερθεὶς παρέλαβεν τὸ παιδίον καὶ τὴν µητέρα αὐτοῦ καὶ

εἰσῆλθεν εἰς γῆν Ἰσραήλ.

And he, getting up, took the child and his mother, and entered into the land of Israel.

4. Matthew 2:23 ※ ἔρχοµαι, κατοικέω, πόλις, ὅπως, ὅτι, καλέω

καὶ ἐλθὼν κατῴκησεν εἰς πόλιν λεγοµένην Ναζαρέτ· ὅπως

πληρωθῇ τὸ ῥηθὲν διὰ τῶν προφητῶν ὅτι Ναζωραῖος κληθήσεται.

And going, he dwelt in a town called Nazareth; so that what was spoken by the prophets should be fulfilled, “He will be called a Nazarene.”

5. Matthew 3:9 ※ µή, δοκέω, ἑαυτοῦ, πατήρ, σύ, δύναµαι, θεός, λίθος, οὗτος, τέκνον

καὶ µὴ δόξητε λέγειν ἐν ἑαυτοῖς, Πατέρα ἔχοµεν τὸν Ἀβραάµ.

λέγω γὰρ ὑµῖν ὅτι δύναται ὁ θεὸς ἐκ τῶν λίθων τούτων ἐγεῖραι

τέκνα τῷ Ἀβραάµ.

And do not think to say among yourselves, “We have Abraham as our father.” For I say to you that God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham.

6. Matthew 3:13 ※ παραγίνοµαι, ἀπό, ἐπί, πρός, βαπτίζω, ὑπό

Τότε παραγίνεται ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀπὸ τῆς Γαλιλαίας ἐπὶ τὸν Ἰορδάνην

πρὸς τὸν Ἰωάννην τοῦ βαπτισθῆναι ὑπ᾿ αὐτοῦ.

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to John to be baptized by him.

7. Matthew 4:1 ※ ἔρηµος, διάβολος

Τότε ὁ Ἰησοῦς ἀνήχθη¹ εἰς τὴν ἔρηµον ὑπὸ τοῦ πνεύ µατος

πειρασθῆναι ὑπὸ τοῦ διαβόλου.

Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.

8. Matthew 4:17 ※ ἄρχω, κηρύσσω, µετανοέω, ἐjίζω, βασιλεία, οὐρανός

Ἀπὸ τότε ἤρξατο ὁ Ἰησοῦς κηρύσσειν καὶ λέγειν, Μετανοεῖτε·

ἤjικεν γὰρ ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν.

From that time, Jesus began to preach and to say, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”

9. Matthew 5:20 ※ ἐάν^I, περισσεύω, δικαιοσύνη, πολύς, γραµµατεύς

Λέγω γὰρ ὑµῖν ὅτι ἐὰν µὴ περισσεύσῃ ὑµῶν ἡ δικαιοσύνη πλεῖον

τῶν γραµµατέων καὶ Φαρισαίων, οὐ µὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς τὴν

βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν.

For I say to you that unless your righteousness abounds more than that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will certainly not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

10. Matthew 8:9 ※ στρατιώτης, δοῦλος

καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼ ἄνθρωπός εἰ µι ὑπὸ ἐξουσίαν, ἔχων ὑπ᾿ ἐ µαυτὸν

στρατιώτας, καὶ λέγω τούτῳ, Πορεύθητι, καὶ πορεύεται, καὶ

ἄrῳ, Ἔρχου, καὶ ἔρχεται, καὶ τῷ δούλῳ µου· Πο...