Essentials of New Testament Greek

Ray Summers, Thomas Sawyer

• Publisher: B&H Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN: 9781535957595
• eBook ISBN: 9781535957588
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Reference

For almost seventy years, Essentials of New Testament Greek has been a classic textbook and key tool for students of New Testament Greek. This classic work by Ray Summers, with updates by Thomas Sawyer, will continue to be an effective resource for generations to come.

Major features include:

• A step-by-step approach which guides students through the learning process.

• Clear explanations of the Greek language and how it works.

• Extensive appendices with paradigms, indexes, and verb list.

• High-frequency Greek vocabulary which presents every word used 50 times or more in the New Testament.

• Numerous examples from the Greek New Testament to illustrate grammatical points.

• Translation exercises which use nearly 300 New Testament verses, including: most of 1 John, a significant percentage of Matthew, John, Romans, and 1 Corinthians.

• An easy-to-read verb chart.

Essentials of New Testament Greek, Revised Edition is an exceptional textbook for college and seminary students, an effective resource for ministers, and an efficient guide for self-study of New Testament Greek.

Lesson 1

The Letters And Sounds Of Greek

1.1 The Greek Alphabet

New Testament Greek has twenty-four letters. The English alphabet roughly corresponds to the Greek. Notice that the first, third, and fifth groups of letters are similar to the corresponding English letters. This grouping is significant only as a learning aid.

Capital Letters	Small Letters	Name	Transliteration^1	Pronunciation
A	α	alpha	a	father
B	β	beta	b	ball
Γ	γ^2	gamma	g	gift
Δ	δ	delta	d	debt
E	ε	epsilon	e	met
Z	ζ	zeta	z or dz	zion, adze^3
Η	η	eta	e	obey
Θ	θ	theta	th	theme
Ι	ι^4	iota	i	pit (short) or magazine (long)
Κ	κ	kappa	k	kit
Λ	λ	lambda	1	long
Μ	μ	mu	m	man
Ν	ν	nu	n	no
Ξ	ξ	xi	x	relax
Ο	ο	omicron	o	omelet
Π	π	pi	p	pay
Ρ	ρ	rho	r	ring
Σ	σ(ς)^5	sigma	s	sing
Τ	τ	tau	t	tale
Υ	υ	upsilon	u or y^6	tube
Φ	Φ	phi	ph	phonetics
Χ	χ	chi	ch	c...

Table of contents

• Preface
• 1 The Letters and Sounds of Greek
• 2 Pronunciation and Accents
• 3 Verbs: Present Active Indicative
• 4 Nouns: Second Declension
• 5 Nouns: First Declension
• 6 Adjectives of the First and Second Declension
• 7 The Greek Sentence
• 8 Prepositions
• 9 Personal Pronouns and Enclitics
• 10 Demonstrative Pronouns
• 11 Present Middle and Passive Indicative
• 12 Imperfect Active Indicative
• 13 Imperfect Middle and Passive Indicative
• 14 Future Active and Middle Indicative
• 15 First Aorist Active and Middle Indicative
• 16 Second Aorist Active and Middle Indicative
• 17 Aorist and Future Passive Indicative
• 18 Third Declension: Liquid and Mute Stem Nouns
• 19 Third Declension: Vowel Stem and Neuter Nouns
• 20 Present and Future Participles
• 21 Aorist Active and Middle Participles
• 22 Aorist Passive Participles
• 23 Perfect and Pluperfect Tenses
• 24 Subjunctive Mood
• 25 Imperative Mood
• 26 Contract Verbs
• 27 Pronouns
• 28 Irregular Adjectives and Adverbs
• 29 Verbs of the μι Conjugation
• 30 The Article
• 31 The Infinitive
• Appendix: General Rules of Accent
• Paradigms
• Greek-English Vocabulary
• Principal Parts of Verbs
• Subject Index
• Scripture Index