Greek Adjectives

Christian Alexander
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edited November 2024 in English Forum

In Koiné biblical Greek, adjectives generally match the noun they describe in gender and number. How can I find the forms of feminine adjectives in the Gospels? 

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  • Graham Criddle
    Graham Criddle MVP Posts: 33,156

    Christian Alexander said:

    How can I find the forms of feminine adjectives in the Gospels? 

    What do you mean by the forms of feminine adjectives? Are there some specific forms you are interested in?

    You can search for them using a Morph Search with a search string of morph.g:J??F 

  • MJ. Smith
    MJ. Smith MVP Posts: 54,806

    Your Greek grammars should have this information as does the morphology chart interactive.

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  • Keep Smiling 4 Jesus :)
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    Christian Alexander said:

    In Koiné biblical Greek, adjectives generally match the noun they describe in gender and number.

    Noun & Adjective agreement has three aspects: gender, number, & case.

    Books Search in Greek books for adjective NEAR noun NEAR agreement found 27 resources in my Logos library, including:

    Adjectives

    Adjectives are words that modify nouns. The adjective “classical” modifies the noun “language” in the sentence “We should all study a classical language.” In Greek, adjectives must agree with the nouns they modify in gender, number, and case.

    Gender. As you learned in chapter 2, nouns have gender and are either masculine, feminine, or neuter. This means that masculine nouns must be modified by masculine adjectives, feminine nouns must be modified by feminine adjectives, and neuter nouns must be modified by neuter adjectives. Adjectives (usually) have endings for three genders to match the gender of the noun being modified.

    Number. Agreement in number means that singular nouns are modified by singular adjectives and plural nouns are modified by plural adjectives.

    Case. Finally, agreement in case means that nominative nouns must be modified by nominative adjectives, accusative nouns must be modified by accusative adjectives, etc.

     

     Michael Boler, Introduction to Classical & New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic Education Press, 2020), 21–22.

    Christian Alexander said:

    How can I find the forms of feminine adjectives in the Gospels? 

    Nominative Singular Feminine (NSF) adjective & noun agreement search example in SBLGNT

    morph.g:JNSF WITHIN 5 WORDS morph.g:NNSF

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