Today the class started a little late.
The first text that Moris showed us was the first verse of St. John's book:
1Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ
λόγος. 2οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν.3πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο,
καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἓν ὃ γέγονεν 4ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ
ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶνἀνθρώπων· 5καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει καὶ ἡ
σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.
ἀρχῇ means beginning.
θεὸς means God, but WHY does the word changes to θεόν in the first verse? This is one of the things we learned today at our Greek class.
There are different types of substantives.
We studied the nominative and the accusative cases.
Nominative is the "who" or "what" is receiving the action:
The monkey is eating the banana.
So, in Greek, the nominatives are divided in singular and in plural.
The nominative case for the subjects would be:
singular : ος as in λόγοὶ
plural : οὶ as in λόγοὶ
The articles for the nominative case subjects would be:
singular : ὁ
plural : οὶ
Look back to the text I posted from St. John and you will notice then how much difference it makes to the words.
Accusative is used in most of the Greek sentences, which order is more like : verb-subject-direct object.
Eaten was the banana by the monkey. (ha,ha!)
So, the article and the complement of the subjects will be:
singular: τὸν and όν plural: τοὺς and οὺς
Now, we can see WHY there's a difference between the
θεόν and θεὸς! The first is accusative and the other is nominative!
Other insights we had on Greek are:
The first text that Moris showed us was the first verse of St. John's book:
1Ἐν ἀρχῇ ἦν ὁ λόγος, καὶ ὁ λόγος ἦν πρὸς τὸν θεόν, καὶ θεὸς ἦν ὁ
λόγος. 2οὗτος ἦν ἐν ἀρχῇ πρὸς τὸν θεόν.3πάντα δι’ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο,
καὶ χωρὶς αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο οὐδὲ ἓν ὃ γέγονεν 4ἐν αὐτῷ ζωὴ ἦν, καὶ ἡ
ζωὴ ἦν τὸ φῶς τῶνἀνθρώπων· 5καὶ τὸ φῶς ἐν τῇ σκοτίᾳ φαίνει καὶ ἡ
σκοτία αὐτὸ οὐ κατέλαβεν.
ἀρχῇ means beginning.
θεὸς means God, but WHY does the word changes to θεόν in the first verse? This is one of the things we learned today at our Greek class.
There are different types of substantives.
We studied the nominative and the accusative cases.
Nominative is the "who" or "what" is receiving the action:
The monkey is eating the banana.
So, in Greek, the nominatives are divided in singular and in plural.
The nominative case for the subjects would be:
singular : ος as in λόγοὶ
plural : οὶ as in λόγοὶ
The articles for the nominative case subjects would be:
singular : ὁ
plural : οὶ
Look back to the text I posted from St. John and you will notice then how much difference it makes to the words.
Accusative is used in most of the Greek sentences, which order is more like : verb-subject-direct object.
Eaten was the banana by the monkey. (ha,ha!)
So, the article and the complement of the subjects will be:
singular: τὸν and όν plural: τοὺς and οὺς
Now, we can see WHY there's a difference between the
θεόν and θεὸς! The first is accusative and the other is nominative!
Other insights we had on Greek are:
- They used to use ONLY UPPER CASE letters on the ancient Greek.
- Pablito says that with interventions, he learns something new. True that.