Elementary New Testament Greek, 2014a

9: Active, Middle, Passive Voices
By using its vocabulary code (1593), you can nd it in Appendix B, and
then nd its entry in BDAG. As you examine this entry, notice that this
same verb is used in Mark 15:34 and Matthew 27:46. How interesting that
forsakenness was not Paul’s experience, but was Jesus’ experience. But
note the subtle “wiggle-room” allowed by the BDAG denition at that
point: “…of feeling or being forsaken by God…” With BDAG’s support,
might we say that Jesus may not actually have been forsaken by God
(though he may have felt it so)?
5) Go in Wallace’s Intermediate Grammar The Basics of NT Syntax to pages
187-191 [Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, pages 431–441]. Simply leaf
through these pages for now. There is no need to understand everything
you see. In later studies as needed, you may nd it helpful to work more
carefully with these pages and the distinctions they offer.
Deponent Verbs
(passive in form, active in translation)
μ [] I become.
μ [] I answer.
μ [] I fear, dread
Like μ, can serve as an
equative verb (followed by a
predicate nominative).
Clearly a prexed form of
, but deponent. Takes a
Dative Object.
An Epsilon-Contract verb. See
the Middle/Passive forms of
above.
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μ [] I go. Found with 10 different prexes.
Chapter Nine Vocabulary
μ [] I come, go.
Found with 18 different prexes.
Used over 600x without a prex.
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[]
[]
I draw, lead. Also found with 18 different prexes [e.g.
(I draw together, gather)]
I go Always with a prex [e.g. (I am going
up); (I am going down)].
μ I go out. A prexed form of μ.
μ
I go into,
enter.
A prexed form of μ.
μ I go away. A prexed form of μ.
[]
I carry, bring, lead. Also found with 14 different
prexes [e.g. (I bring to, offer)]