Now a Greek Question...

How does one determine that something is in the accusative case in Greek? In English, the direct object follows the verb, but my understanding is that in Greek it isn't always so. John 1:1 has an example of that, I believe. What does one look for to figure out if the order is out of order...if you get my drift?

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MJ. Smith

How does one determine that something is in the accusative case in Greek?

You determine it by the case marker that is appended to the stem. Use declension charts until you learn to recognize the ending.

Kevin Becker

As MJ pointed out the case endings indicate what is Nominative, Accusative etc. In general the word order of Greek has to do with emphasis, the first words are the most important (of course, as with most languages there are exceptions and caveats too complicated to go in a forum post.).

EDIT: Logos sells charts http://www.logos.com/products/details/6338 with these forms (you can download the PDF version for free), You can see on the Greek side the endings that nouns take for the Accusative (A) depending on number, gender, and declension.

David Paul

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/161067#Comment_161067

That helped...thanks!