I read an excellent article in Novum Testamentum yesterday that argues that the novel sense of διακρίνομαι ‘to […]
Category Archive: Lexicography
So apparently this book will eventually come into being and in English, at that! Update: The original Spanish articles are […]
That moment when you read in BDAG (and BAGD, too) that σκοτίζω’s middle form has the function of: […]
That moment when you read in BDAG that κοιμάω is: in our lit. only in pass. and w. act. […]
Transitivity plays a central role in all voice usage, not only in the contrast between active and middle, but also within the usage of the middle voice itself. Understanding that range is important for discerning the meaning of a given verb in the middle voice when reading the biblical text or other contemporary Koine Greek literature.
It looks like John Lee’s A History of New Testament Greek Lexicography might be out of print…which is a […]
If anything could supplant LSJ, this could be it. I’m looking forward to picking up a copy. The […]
Helma Dik just made an announcement on her website about a online interface for using digitized Greek lexicons […]
Metaphor and analogy drive much (all) of semantic change. The text is from 4 Macc 2:2-3 2 ταύτῃ […]
Dionysius Thrax (or at least the grammar attributed to him) represents one early voice on the structure of […]
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