2 person plural Greek

Christian Alexander

In the paradigm for εἰμί Bill Mounce says that the second person plural means "you" but that it is a plural "you" equivalent to "thou or you all." Is this the case for ὑμεις and ὑμας as well?

Dave Hooton

A little bit of morph search in KJV 1900 or Cambridge Paragraph Bible will establish the old English use of "you", "thou" and "thee".

εἰμί is a Verb, so type then select Verb (V), then Second Person(2) and then select Plural(P) i.e. morph.g:V???2P

so that lemma.g:εἰμί  INTERSECTS  morph.g:V???2P is a search for second person plural, which is translated with "ye" in KJV but "you" in modern English bibles.  Then try it with First person and note the different use with Singular and Plural.

Now do similar searches with the Greek pronouns  ὑμεις and ὑμας  e.g. ὑμας INTERSECTS morph.g:R?2?P. You should note the difference between Singular and Plural as well as the different translation in KJV.

Now search thou INTERSECTS morph.g:R?2?S  (singular) which has many results whilst using  morph.g:R?2?P shows that "thou" is never Plural. Then try the search with "you" and "thee" to determine whether singular or plural in KJV.