1 Declension. — Logos Bible Software. %PDF-1.5 why does anyone think we should translate the definite article in this manner from the Greek of the New Testament into English?Here are ten common instances where New Testament Greek employs a definite article and the English does not. But in Old English versions it was … x��=َ9���z�.9y��h���F�nzv����L^dʋ��KɌ�A2f0�������������/������f������=������������xx�b��Wo�>y������ۧOتQ�c+.Ŷ�~Vo?=}Ҭ>�?�=}�n��q#�7�/�v}Xm��o�+���s��\����F���S�~��������_�>�U�R��b;��w��"p�Īz����鬸��?����j\��jӭ_¯�k����=0���n3�[��G�gk���W��:���Oˤ<4�v%���[K�����J*�RK�~s��ԏ;���i? This mistaken translation principle frequently results in stilted English and occasionally leads to nonsense. More problematic is Peters’s treatment of θεός in the last clause of the verse, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ λόγος. This last point should be kept carefully in mind.
The DEFINITE ARTICLE, translated as the in English, is far and away the most common word in Greek. It … The same feature was found sixteen hundred years ago in the Gothic version at John 10:9, which reads "Ik im thata daur" (I am the door).
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Jump to navigation Jump to search. If the Greek definite article is present, they insist, we are obligated to represent it with a definite article in the English. by Christ. We don’t say, “I love the to build houses.” We say, “I love to build houses.”— this is not English — “the sin is the lawlessness”— NOTE — this is not talking about a particular sin that is a particular kind of lawlessness— this is not what is intended — “the grace and the truth came through Jesus”— NOTE — this is not talking about a particular instance of grace and a particular instance of truth— this is not what is intended — “men loved the darkness rather than the light”— NOTE — this is not talking about a particular kind or instance of darkness and a particular kind or instance of light— We don’t speak this way — “In the beginning the God created the heaven and the earth.”— We don’t speak this way — “the Word was with the God”— NOTE — sometimes infinitives are best translated by a participle or an “at” phrase, e.g. Indeed, we don’t have occasion, for adjectives almost never follow the noun. "Originally the Word was, and the Word was with God, and the Word was a god," in There is a definite and an indefinite article which both agree in gender, number and case with the noun they refer to. Take for example, στον: the preposition part is the initial σ-, and the article is -τον (masculine, accusative, singular, according to the above table). (Up until the late 1970’s, Greek … identical. For that reason the usage of the article in Greek has some striking differences from the word “the” in English.
Unless otherwise noted, the material on this website is authored by Lee W. Brainard.HOW THE GREEK DEFINITE ARTICLE DIFFERS FROM THE ENGLISH DEFINITE ARTICLE is the highest in existence, namely, divine.Examples where the noun in the predicate does not have an The fact is, no two languages that employ definite articles use them in exactly the same way. 41ff, 94f; and, particularly with reference to Granville Sharp's doctrine (Remarks on the uses of the Def.
This mistaken translation principle frequently results in stilted English and occasionally leads to nonsense. Word was with God and the Word was God," is shockingly mistranslated, The fact is, no two languages that employ definite articles use them in exactly the same way. in nature.Besides, the whole tenor of New Testament revelation points These observations will be of use to both serious Greek students and those whose Greek goes little further than looking up Greek words in a Strong’s Lexicon as they work through a passage.— this is not English — “upon this the rock I shall build my church”— this is not English — “for no one is able to do these the signs”— Summary — In English we don’t use the definite article when we use demonstrative pronouns adjectively.— this is not English — “how then do you have access to the water the living?”— Note — one interpretive option is that ἔχειν (have, hold) is used in its sense of “have the ability to do something” — like Latin — this is not English — “the dragon the great, the serpent the ancient”— Summary — In English we don’t repeat the article with adjectives. We say child (singular) and children (plural).. He entitled his article John 1:1 which reads "In the beginning was the Word and the Learning the Greek Articles displayed below is vital to the language. Website Developed by They are both inflected for gender and case, and the definite article also for number. But the John who lives in the downstairs apartment is not.”— this is not English — “the only begotton Son, the is at the bosom of the Father”— this is not English — “Everyone the commits sin also commits lawlessness”— Summary — English regularly uses the relative pronoun in these circumstances to introduce the clarifying phrase or clause.
When referring to the definite article in Greek, we say that the differences in its forms that determine grammatical function are its various cases.
Greek Articles.
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