Winston Churchill

“Eating words has never given me indigestion.” 

Word StudiesIdentifying the word that will be found in the dictionaries and lexicons

ἐκτιναξάμενοι

ἐκτινάσσω

Right Click on a word in the Interlinear, Hebrew Text, or Greek Text

Manuscript Form (Many Forms)What was written down from God by Man in the Bible

Lemma/Dictionary Form (One Form)What was written down by Man in dictionaries and lexicons

Strong’s #A number assigned to a Hebrew/Greek word 1621

Introduction: Word Studies

1) How is the word defined by its context?– Dictionary/Lexicon/Concordance

2) How is the word functioning?– Part of Speech (Morphology)

3) How are the words related?– Context (Syntactical/Grammatical)

Starting with the Verbs First

GREEK MORPHOLOGY: Mood

Aorist

Future

Present

Imperfect

Perfect

Pluperfect

I spoke

I will speak

I am speaking

I was speaking

I have spoken

I had spoken

TENSE TIME TRANSLATION

past present future

I will be speaking

INDICATIVE – No Doubt the action occurredMood – “Degrees of Doubt”/Affirming the Action

undefined point in time

period of time

GREEK MORPHOLOGY: Mood

Aorist

Present

I should speak

I should/might be speaking

TENSE TIME TRANSLATION

past present future

SUBJUNCTIVE – Some Doubt the action occurredMood – “Degrees of Doubt”/Affirming the Action

GREEK MORPHOLOGY: Mood

Aorist

Present

I should possibly speak

I should possibly be speaking

TENSE TIME TRANSLATION

past present future

OPTATIVE – Extreme Doubt the action occuredMood – “Degrees of Doubt”/Affirming the Action

IMPERATIVE – Action has not occurred, therefore it is commanded to happen

GREEK MORPHOLOGY: Person

Singular Plural

Who is performing the action?

1st

2nd

3rd

I

You

He, She, It

# of Person(s)

We

You-All/ Y’all

They

GREEK MORPHOLOGY: Voice

I am speaking

SUBJECT VOICE TRANSLATION

The relationship of the subject to the verbal action

Active

I am speaking to myselfMiddle Voice

Passive Voice I am being spoken to

Subject performs the action

Subject is both doing & receiving the action

Subject receives the action

HEBREW MORPHOLOGY: Person

Singular Plural

Who is performing the action?

1st

2nd

3rd

I

You

He, She, It

# of Person(s)

We

You-All/ Y’all

They

HEBREW MORPHOLOGY: Voice

I am speaking

SUBJECT VOICE TRANSLATION

The relationship of the subject to the verbal action

Active

I am speaking to myselfReflexive

Passive Voice I am being spoken to

Subject performs the action

Subject is both doing & receiving the action

Subject receives the action

HEBREW MORPHOLOGY: Action

I spoke

SUBJECT ACTION TRANSLATION

Discover the type of verbal activity

Simple

I shoutedIntensive

Causative I caused to shout

HEBREW MORPHOLOGY: Root

Pattern

Discover the pattern

Qal

Piel

Hiphil

Pual

Hophal

Niphal

Hithpael

HEBREW MORPHOLOGY: Root

Pattern

Discover the pattern

Qal

Piel

Hiphil

Pual

Hophal

Niphal

Hithpael

WORD MEANINGContext is King