Basics Of Biblical Greek

Opening Thanks and Why the Class Matters

I want to thank you all for coming tonight, knowing that I am the substitute made me wonder if I'd come in and see a bunch of empty chairs, and it would have been okay, it would have only hurt my feelings a little, but I do appreciate you coming, for those of you who don't know me, my name is Keith Foskey, I graduated from this seminary in 2007 with my doctorate of ministry degree, I was here as a student of Dr. Vernon Johns first, he was my homiletics professor, my eschatology professor, and my friend, he also had a dear friend named Dr. Jerry Powers, Dr. Jerry Powers took over for him when he passed, and he became a very close personal friend and mentor to me for many years, we did, after I graduated, I did spend a little while not seeing him, but he did me a great favor once, a lady asked me to preach her funeral, she asked me before she died, just so y 'all know, she asked me to preach her funeral, and I didn't have a robe, but she requested a robe, she wanted her minister to wear a minister's robe, and I didn't have one, couldn't afford one, so Dr. Powers let me borrow his robe, and I wore his robe to preach her funeral, and I'll never forget that, he's just a very generous man, and a loving man, and a man who I still miss very much to this day, and I'm thankful for the men who spoke into my life at this school, and who were able to give me guidance and wisdom at a very young and formative age, and I'm thankful now to have the opportunity to speak before you all, so thank you again for being here, I'm a pastor, I've been the pastor of Sovereign Grace Family Church for the last 10 years, oh, I just refreshed Greek, I'm here because they were offering the Greek course, I wanted to come and learn some more, I've studied with different Greek professors, probably the most influential on me has been a man by the name of John Swan, he wrote the Interlinear ESV, I preach out the ESV Bible at my church, and he wrote the Interlinear, Reverse Interlinear ESV, and he's a very smart, very intelligent Greek scholar, and it's been a man that I've had an opportunity to study a little bit with, I'm not gonna say I was with him for a long time, but I've had an opportunity to study a little bit with him, that was a real blessing to me, but knowing that it would be good to be back in the classroom, getting to meet you all, were part of my motivation for coming back here and just being in class, as a pastor, you're also a student, and you're never not a student, so we want to just grow in the Word.

Exegesis, Isegesis, and the Goal of Studying Koine Greek

So, I want to begin with a little quote that I like to share, I'm not quoting anybody, this is something I tell people all the time, because I've taught Greek in my church, I've never taught in the seminary, but I have taught in my church, I've taught young people, children, not like little kids, but youth-aged children, Greek classes, because they seem to be the most interested, I can't get my senior adults to do it yet, but the young kids really, I say, hey, I'm gonna do a Greek course, man, it's flooded with teenagers and people, because they're hungry to learn, and I always tell them the same thing, our single purpose, hey brother, come on in, we just started, you didn't miss nothing, except for me talking, our single purpose for studying Koine, and you remember Koine is the Greek that we are studying, there are different types of the language as it has evolved, we are studying Koine, which means common, it was common in the first century, or in the time of Jesus Christ, our single purpose for studying Koine is the proper exegesis of scripture, what does the word exegesis mean?

It means to pull out of something, too many men make it their business of reading into the text something that is not there, they have an idea, they have something they want to talk about, they have some point that they want to make, and I've heard too many times preachers say, I've got a great sermon, now I've just got to find a text, you ever heard anybody say, I've got a great sermon, I just need a text to go with it, that is not preaching scripture, that is preaching your opinions or your convictions with scriptural ornaments, because the root is not scripture, the root is your opinion and your conviction, and then you sprinkle it with these ornaments of scripture, scripture should be the root, it should be the trunk, and if you are going to put any meat on the bones, or you are going to put any ornaments on the tree, that is where your illustrations and things like that come in, you don't start with the illustration and go looking for a text, you start with the text, and then you find whatever you need to help people understand what the text says, the opposite of exegesis is what, anybody know?

Isegesis, which means to read into, is being the prefix meaning into, ek being the out of, we've already learned that, we've talked about this in class, to get out of something, when you go to the text of scripture, you want to draw out from it what it says, and ultimately you want to draw out the original author's intention, now we could all say who is the author of scripture?

God, the Holy Spirit of God, inspired the word of God to be written, but then we have to say that the medium of the individual was used, so Paul writes differently than does John, and John, and we've already talked about that because we've said John reads differently than Hebrews, right?

Hebrews is written in a more classical Greek style, John is written in a very simple elementary Greek style, and then of course you're able to see the differences that God uses these men, and it wasn't like that God made them a sort of a mimeograph machine where he just, and it wasn't like automatic writing, these were men who were being carried along by the Holy Spirit, this is what Peter tells us in his epistle, these are holy men of God, wrote, or they spoke as they were carried along by the Holy Spirit, so we know how scripture comes to us, it comes to us through these men, I want to know what was in the mind of the Apostle Paul, I want to know what was in the mind of the Apostle Peter and John as they were writing, I want to know what was in the mind of Luke and of Mark, and the only way to do that is proper exegesis, that's the goal, the goal of studying Greek is never to impress people, I know guys who want to tell you how much they know about the Greek language when they're preaching, and you end up leaving not knowing much more than when you came because you don't know the Greek language, and you're impressed that this guy's really smart, but you wouldn't know if he was telling you a fib, you wouldn't know if what he was telling you was wrong because he's being very erudite, he's being very show-offy with his understanding of the word, and so he just starts spitting out all these words, you wouldn't know if he's telling you the truth or not, and it does no good to confuse our people, if the English translation is sufficient, use it, because that's what they speak, and that's one thing we haven't really talked about yet, if the English is sufficient, I remember guys will say, well this word is this in the Greek, and it means this in the English, well that's what it said in the English, why did you have to do that, because I had to fill 10 seconds of sermon time, I've got to fill 40 minutes, or I don't know how long you preach, you know me, I preach 40 -45 minutes, I've got to fill some time, you all know that's wrong, right, that's a wrong attitude, that's what we do, we want people to know, hey they're paying us, they better pay us for something, we've got to give them something, you know, they signed my paycheck, they better make it worth something, well, no, I'd probably have a bigger paycheck if I went shorter, but anyhow, all that was just simply to say, this is valuable what we're doing because it helps us to understand what's being said, it's not for us to show-off, it's not for us to simply expand our minds for the sake of being able to glory in our own wisdom, but it's for the sake of being able to lead the people of God to a better understanding of the Word of God, because that's what we want to do.

Greek Alphabet, Capital and Lowercase Forms, and Pronunciation

So tonight, we're going to go through most of what we already have gone through, I haven't hooked up the PowerPoint yet, I do have it, but I've got enough that I don't think we'll need it, we'll still do a lot of what we already do, because I put the Greek letters on here, so we are going to go through the Greek letters a few times, because that is Dr. Spears' patented thing, every five minutes, we've got to go and go through the letters again.

So brother, can I have somebody help me, Pat, would you help me pass these out? This is the first one, I better keep one, there you go, and this has the alphabet on the front, I'm going to erase this, anybody need this anymore, because I'm going to write.

We do have one gentleman who was not with us for, and I'm going to call you out brother Ron, but I'm just saying you weren't with us for the first class, so I am going to be, by way of reminder, and for his benefit, taking a step back on some of the things, like how do we remember what the letters are and stuff, because again, I've taught kids this, and I've kind of come up with sort of fun and creative ways to remember these things, so I'm going to give them to you, and you take what you think is valuable, and put it in your bag, and what you don't think is valuable, drop it in the trash can on the way out, and then we'll be good, and nobody's feelings will be hurt, because I won't even know what you dropped.

Yeah, right there. Oh, I'm going to, we're going to hand these out in a minute, because we might not even get very far in this one, we'll see how far we go. Let's start over on the Greek alphabet, the basics, and you'll see that it's got on the far left side, all of the capital letters, then you have all of the lower case letters, then you have the name of the letter, then you have the English equivalent, and then you have for the different letters that we're not used to, you have what they sound like.

So really, this kind of is a snapshot of what we have on the PowerPoint, so it's not anything different, it's just looking at it a little different way. Let's go through the alphabet, starting out, Alpha, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xi, Omicron, P, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, Psi, Omega.

Alright, now, how many of you are really good at the lower case letters? That's not a practical question. How many of you are comfortable with lower case letters? How about the upper case letters? The upper case letters we're usually not as familiar with because when we're reading, we see 95 lower case letters.

Only time you're ever going to see an upper case letter is the beginning of a sentence or the beginning of a name, when it's a proper noun. You're not going to see upper case letters throughout the text.

Know this though, when it was written, and Dr. Spears already alluded to this, it was all upper case letters. It was written. All capital letters, no spaces, no punctuation. It's called unsealed text, and it was that way for the first eight centuries.

It wasn't until the eighth century that the introduction of what's called the minuscule. Minuscule is lower case. If you look at Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus, the oldest vellum manuscript that we have, that are still in existence today, they all look different than what we've been looking at.

That's fine, because it's not different in what it's saying, but when you look at it, you'll be like, wow, that's really weird, because you can imagine if I come up here and I wrote a sentence, all capital letters, no spaces, no punctuation, because for us that would be weird, but for them it was not weird.

They had a method of being able to understand that, and it wasn't a problem for them. It was just a problem for us. Yes, sir? What's it called? Lower case. Lower case is minuscule. Minuscule. Minuscule.

Uppercase. All uppercase is unseal. Unseal. Unseal text. Minuscule text. All right, so let's look at the capital letters, and let's just make a few little notes here. Alpha looks like an A. Everybody agree?

Beta looks like a B. The gamma looks like a what? A Y. Upside down L. An upside down L. It actually looks like a gallows. You know what a gallows is? I'm looking at capitals now. You're looking at the gallows.

You know what a gallows is, right? Back in the old west. You know what a gallows is? That's gallows starts with a G. So again, I've taught this to kids, now you remember. You will remember that one, because now you know.

All right, so that's that. The delta, you ever see Delta Airlines? That's their symbol. It also looks like the head of a dart. That helps for D D D. All right, all right, epsilon. Am I losing you brother?

No, I'm thinking when I was in school in physics or chemistry, delta was something we used all the time. Okay.

Well, there you go. My daughter was informing me the other day that she knows Greek. Oh, good. Well, there you go. That symbol is used in science. Now you will notice that they pronounce the Greek differently.

Somebody in here said pi earlier when we got to the letter that looks like that. The reason why is because you grew up pi R square, but I'm from the south and cake R square, pi R round. There you go. That's an old joke.

I can't believe it. I love it when an old joke still works. No, pi is how it is. It's the universities use a certain language. It's called something. I just lost my word, but it's basically it's the university language.

It's also the language of mathematics and science, and they have it a certain way. We are using what is called the Erasmian pronunciation. The Erasmian pronunciation is when you pronounce every letter, and you've heard the doc talk about that.

Erasmus was a scholar during the time of Martin Luther, during the time of the Reformation back in the 1500s, Erasmus was a scholar, and he was the one who actually put together the manuscripts into what would later become the Textus Receptus, which you've heard the professor talk about that.

So that scholar, it was a dead language. Nobody spoke it anymore. So how did they begin to speak it? Well, we pronounce every letter because we don't know how they spoke it 2 ,000 years ago, but we know how we're going to speak it now because we're going to just pronounce every letter.

So that's the Erasmian pronunciation. That's what we're using. Yes, sir. No, that this would have been the Tower of Babel would have been something that happened before Christ in the Old Testament. This is actually in the 1500s is the time I'm referring to.

This has been well after the New Testament. Yes, sir. All right. So just know that there's different ways to pronounce. If you go to Greece today, they're going to talk way different than the way you're if you try to talk to them in Greek like this, they're going to look at you like you got two heads.

But it's the same thing is if you try to talk King James English to somebody who talks, you know, like me, Southern American, yeah, you're going to have a different way of talking. So it's not that it's wrong.

It just is. It isn't good or bad. It just it is. All right. So we know Delta Epsilon is an E. We have that one. It's the same capital letter Zeta or some Zeta is a Z. Now, I have the hardest time drawing the Zeta letter.

Mine always comes out. I have a hard time writing it when I'm writing. I did this today in the kids. I was substitute teaching and I was actually writing their names in Greek for them just because I was in the class and we just needed something to do.

So I was writing out their names in Greek, which is a fun activity. If you really want to know, if you know the letters, just start writing English words in Greek letters and you'll figure out how much you understand about diphthongs, how much you understand about how the relationship between the syllables work.

It's really neat exercise. So anyway, Zeta is a hard one to write for me, anyway, Eta is what we would say is the long E sound at the end of Agape is actually a long A sound, but in the way it's usually translated as a long E, but it has an A sound.

So just that's where we say long A, long E. It's got the H and the, everybody says it looks like an N. I think it looks like an H. This is one of the ones, if you think if you just add a little higher side, to me, I've never had trouble remembering that one because I just think of it being a little longer H and you got it.

It's not an N, it's an H. Theta or Theta is the O, the line through it. Now you will see it sometimes like this, depending on the handwriting. Some of the handouts I hand you tonight, your Theta will be like this and your Phi will be like this and it's because that's the way you would write it.

They would like that and again, it's not the right way or the wrong way, it's a way. Be with me. It's good because there's different ways of doing it, but you just get that as a, if you see an O and a line's going horizontally, it's a Tha, Tha sound.

If you see an O and a line's going vertically, it's a Fuh, Fuh sound. Got it? Tha, Fuh. Alright. Yoda. I always joke with the kids, I say it's like Jedi Master Yoda because it's E-Oda, E-Oda, E-Oda.

E-Oda. It's E-Oda, but if you say E-Oda, it kind of has a Yuh sound and that's why Yesu, that's why we say that, when there's an I at the beginning, right? Same thing. It is what it is. That's the way I say it.

I'm a little weird, but I just like saying Jedi Master Yoda. You don't have to like Star Wars, but I do. Okay. So you got E-Oda. It's the same, capital and lowercase, the same as English. Most of these are the same.

Kappa is capital, same as the lowercase. Lambda, right, is the pyramid, right? And the lowercase lambda is the pyramid with the line just slightly offset. It's pyramid or pyramid with it slightly offset.

So really that shouldn't throw you. Just know that you will sometimes confuse it with the delta because you have to know that the delta has the line on the bottom and the lambda does not. So as you're reading through, you'll see a lambda and you'll think, oh, delta, and it might catch you.

So just kind of keep that in mind. Mu is M, and the lowercase M is just an M with what looks like a tail. Nu, let me show you how I do this with the kids. I think about the letter N, and then I erase that, and that's your nu, which is how I see it in my mind's eye.

Whether that's right or wrong or going to help you, I don't know. But if you think about an N and you erase that part, it becomes a nu. So rather than thinking V, I'm trying to get you out of thinking English.

I'm trying to get you to think these are their own letters and how do they feel like my letters. This is how I get them to think. It's how I get to think that way. Xc or C is really kind of, it looks like a big E.

If you think about it, look at it, think of, you know, your epsilon looks like that. Your, well, I put one too many, it looks like that, right? It looks like a big E. Think exit, Xc, exit, looks like an E.

How about a capital? Capital, that's one you're going to have to just memorize because I haven't, just, it's three lines, but it's still the same thing. It's line, line, line, if you connected these two, it'd be an E.

That's really all they're doing with the lowercase is they're taking the three lines and they're doing it together. There's still three lines. All right, I'm going to erase this. Is this being helpful?

Okay. Okay. Next is omicron. Everybody knows that one, right? Sounds like a transformer. Doesn't it? The omicron's coming. Okay. All right, so the omicron is got the big O, little O. P is the same, big and little.

It's just when it's big, it looks like pillars. P, pillars, it does, it looks like two pillars. That's what, you know, think of P. Rho, rho, is rho, they roll the R, rho, it looks like a P. That one is one that, again, just my brain sees this, which kind of looks like an R.

I don't know if you're going to make that connection, but for me, that's okay. Or on the capital, my brain sees that. It sees the added line. That's right. Because that's the R. And again, I had to trick myself into figuring this out because I had to take tests too.

I had to be able to remember this stuff. And these are just sometimes the things that work for some people don't work for others, so maybe it'll help you. Sigma, the sigma E looks, or the sigma capital looks like a giant E.

That one, still to this day, every once in a while I'll see it and I'll think, ah, ah, sound and it's a sound. That's just one you're going to have to try to memorize that it looks like that. If you have an idea, some kind of mental thing that helps you remember that that's a sound, I haven't gotten there yet.

I still have to, every time I see it, I think, Simone, Simon, Peter, his name starts with that letter. And that's him. Oh, it is a sideways W. That doesn't help me think of S though. Sideways. Sideways.

Hey, sideways. There you go. Sideways. W-R-M. Okay. Tau. Tau is the same up in, it's the T and it's the same in English. Upsilon, this one will throw you because earlier, if you go back to Gamma, you will see the lowercase Y is the lowercase Gamma, but the uppercase Y is the uppercase Upsilon.

That is another one that you'll have to sort of just put in your memory bank. If you're concerned with the uppercase letters and if you get to where you're reading, you're going to want to know these.

That was one that sometimes will catch me because I'll be thinking Gamma because I'm thinking the lowercase, but it doesn't match in this case. Phi is, think of a head holding a phone. It's a phone. You're looking at the guy sideways and the phone's against the side of his head.

I mean, you'll remember it. You'll go home. You'll look at it and say, I know what that letter is. That's a phone letter. All right. The next one is, for me, easy because what the professors always said is very true.

Xmas. Kuh, kuh, kuh sound. The Christos starts with an X, not a C. Well, there's no C in Greek. It doesn't start with a kappa. It starts with a kuh C, or a kuh, kuh sound. All right. Phi or C, rather.

I think I've told you guys this. It looks like a trident. Think about popping a balloon and it makes a sound, psss, and that's the letter. That's the noise that you're thinking.

Yeah. That actually did help me the first time you said that. Yeah.

That was years ago. Somebody told me that and I was like, man, that's pretty good.

Because the Phi, Ki, Psi all run together for me, so I had to figure out a way to break them up. Yeah.

And then Omega, the big Omega, looks like an O with feet, and the little Omega looks like a W. That one will throw you off, because you'll be thinking English. You'll be thinking, oh, a W. But just remember, there is no W.

So it's not a W. But like when you, we're going to look at the word later, Glossa. Remember what's Glossa? Remember what that word means? Language. All right. Glossa is what? Gamma, Lambda, Omega, because it's Glossa, not Glossa.

Glossa would be either an Omicron or an Alpha, depending on whether it was ah-ah or ah-ah, you know, depending. But it's Glossa and it has the Omega, okay? Is there any questions? I know, Ron, you probably have a thousand, because it's your first night, but is there any questions about any of these letters or anything that you've noticed through your study or anything that you're having trouble with before we move to the diphthongs?

Well, perfect. You guys are doing great. Well, let's go now to the diphthongs. The Alpha Iota diphthong, diphthong, makes the I sound, I-le. The Epsilon Iota diphthong makes the A, and you think about the number 8, E-I, starts.

And then the Omega, I'm sorry, Omicron Iota is Oi. The Alpha Upsilon makes the Au-Au, like cow. The Epsilon Upsilon makes the U sound, like in feud. This is Edward. I don't know where I, this, I would scratch that out and put feud, because that's a better, it should be feud.

I don't know why it says, I didn't make this particular part of that. That was one I got from a book. And I don't know where they're getting Edward, but Omicron Upsilon is U, like soup or food. And Upsilon Iota is We, like sweet or queen.

All right, let's do all of the diphthongs together. I, A, Oi, Au, U, U, We. It's not the same order we're used to. We learned it in an order, and now it's out of order. All right, let's do the alphabet.

These are in order. Alpha, Theta, Gamma, Delta, Epsilon, Zeta, Eta, Theta, Iota, Kappa, Lambda, Mu, Nu, Xe, Omicron, P, Rho, Sigma, Tau, Upsilon, Phi, Chi, C, Omega. One thing I am doing, I'm letting you cheat.

Next time, I'm going to tell you to put your hand over the letter, because you can actually read it. I didn't think about that until just now. Yeah, all right. Going back on the same page over where it says smooth and rough.

If you see a word beginning with a vowel letter, and over it there is a comma, and you see a same vowel, and the comma is going backwards, which one has the H sound, the second one? This one would, well, I'll put it on the right side.

This one, by adding this breathing mark, adds the H sound to the front. So it's not agios, it's hagios, which is holy. There's a lot of times where that's going to really need to be thought of when you're pronouncing it.

If you are teaching your people, and you're reading out a Greek word, I see a lot of guys who just miss the breathing all together, and just say it without the H sound. And it is part of the word, OK?

So that is the breathing, which makes the H sound, because there is no H letter. So that establishes the H letter for us. Any questions on that? OK, we have the next thing is the punctuation. Punctuation, a period is a, a comma is a, a semicolon is a period above the line, and the question mark is a semicolon.

Again, when it was originally written, those didn't exist. But they do. So they were added for whose benefit? The person reading. So that people like us wouldn't have to figure it out. You know, somebody has figured it out, put it together for us, and it's a benefit.

Writing Greek Names and the Tetragrammaton

All right, now, this next part is something I want you to do. You are going to write your name. We're going to take five minutes of class. I give you, in this form, the right way to write the letters as you're writing.

So if you look at the alpha, you start here, and it's alpha. And then beta comes up from here, right? And then gamma, down here, delta, epsilon, can't do, I just think, I really am in trouble with that one, eta, theta, kappa, lambda, C, P, sigma, epsilon, phi, chi, C, and then omega.

All right, figure out how to write your name. You may already be doing it, but you can go to the bottom of the page, and I left you a space there. He just gave me the funniest look, like, I hate you. He had asked us to do it a couple weeks ago.

He mentioned it in class, that's why. But we never did bring it back up. My problem is, I know that, like, Jesus uses the capital yoga. Is that in place of all Js? Yes. Yes. So remind me again of your first name.

Jason. Yeah, it would be Jason. It would be E-A-son. Or Yasin. For you, I would do Yoda, A, eta, because I want to have the long A sound. And then, I'm doing this for you. Well, I figured if I asked, I was just kidding.

And then it would be Omicron, nu, so it would be E-A-son. Yeah. Because there's not a J, so you're not going to. J is a Germanic sound. J is something that comes to us in German. That's why Je-Jehovah is not the way that you pronounce the sacred name of God.

It can't be, because the Je-Je sound does not exist in Hebrew, and the Je-Je sound does not exist in Greek. Je-Jehovah is a Germanic change to the Tetragrammaton. Tetragrammaton, Yod, Hay, Vod. Oh, I did that wrong.

My Hebrew is nowhere as good as my Greek. But Yod, Hay, Vod, Hay is the four-letter name of God. And what we would say Yahweh or Yehovah. Yehovah is a combination of Yahweh and Adonai. And the reason for that is because they would not pronounce the divine name, so they combined Yahweh and Adonai to make Yehovah.

And it becomes a change in the name so that they don't pronounce God's name and take his name in vain. So when the Jehovah's Witnesses come to your door, and they tell you God's name is Jehovah, don't use that argument because they're just going to go, use something else.

But really, the whole idea of, you know, if you want to call God Jehovah, that's fine. It's just like calling Jesus, Jesus. Nothing wrong with it. And if that's what you call God and that makes you happy, don't think I'm trampling on your sensibilities.

I'm not. I'm just saying German is where we get the Je-Je sound.

I don't write the first letter of my name. What's your?

Cecil? Ce-ce-ce-cecil? Well, it would be a sigma. C-C. That's another problem that you have. It's the same as me. Because Keith, there's no diphthong that makes the E sound like our names do. Because my, in English, K-E-I-T-H is Keith.

Yours is Cecil. It would actually be more like sassle. Like, I would say mine is either Kath or Kaith. For me, I always say it's Kaith. So it would be like Kaith. I don't know if you've ever heard anybody call somebody Keith Kaith.

The one that I use is Sigma. Huh? Yeah, I would say Sigma. And it would be Sigma Cecil would be Sigma Yoda Lambda. So it would be Cecil. And that's close enough. It sounds similar. How about Eric? Eric.

Eric. Everybody's had me do it before. Epsilon Rho. Yoda Ka.

Ron. It would be Rho. P. Omicron. Nu. Ron. Hey, you got it. You got it. Yes, sir. He got it. First day he got it. You look like you're interested. With that word for one name, it doesn't mean it's a flex.

Dawid. I can't remember how we do the W.

Oh, the Dawid. We is the diphthong of the Epsilon and the Yoda. So it's we is coming from the last diphthong on the paper. The one that's the Epsilon Yoda. So it would be Delta Alpha Epsilon Yoda Delta.

Dawid. Stu. It would actually be Stephen like it's written in Scripture. Yours has the V. Right? But in Scripture, you notice that Stephen does not have the V. You know why? There's no V in Greek. Stephen's a Greek name.

It is Sigma Tau Epsilon Phi Epsilon Nu. Oh, man. It's the Pha. It's Stephan. Stephen is more of a modern way of saying it. Stephan. I put an Alpha. All right. Anybody else have any trouble with their names?

I was just confused because I didn't have a J. It wouldn't sound the same as it does in English. But that would be the way I would say it should be. Ieason. How did you write the J? It's actually Yoda because it's Ieason would be his name, not Jason because there's no J sound.

Do you know what I'm talking about? Yes, sir.

Stephanos. Stephanos. Yeah, well, there you go. That's true. Stephanos. It sounds more official than right. All right. So are we good?

I can erase this and move on? I want to get... What's that? Remind me your name. Remind me. I want to see it. What you got? Sondra. And then Robin. Oh, yeah.

Robinson. Okay. All right. You guys want to really have fun now? I mean, like, really knock it out? We're going to have some fun now. If you guys got your names done because when we turn this page over, we're going to get real.

Can you? Owen. Yeah. O-W as Omega. Epsilon. O-N. Yeah. Yep.

Greek Matching Exercises and New Testament Verse Identification

All right, guys. Turn your page over. This is Greek matching. How many of you, when y 'all were in school, you would get... A teacher would give you all the answers on one side and all the questions on the other side, and you had to draw a line from what to the other?

Well, that is what this is. I made this just for us. This is not in anybody's textbook. This is from Mr. Foskey's textbook. I like doing this kind of stuff because what we're going to do is we're going to read all these Greek sentences.

Now, there's some words you don't know. That's okay. But the words you do know, we're going to underline as we go, and then we're going to find the verse that attaches to it based on the root, the words that we're using.

Okay? All right? So we're going to underline. Yes, sir? Oh, I was going to answer the first one. You know the first one. What's the first one? John 1 -1. It is John 1 -1. Can you read the text for us?

Okay. And I'm not calling you out. I just didn't know. How did you know it was the first one? Yep, logos. Yep. Yep. Yep. Let's walk through it. Let's walk through it together. N-R-K-A-N-H-A-L-O-G-O-S.

Say that. N-R-K-A-N-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. N-R-K-A-N-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. All right. K-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. K-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. A-N-P-R-O-S-T-O-N-T-H-E-O-N. K-H-A-L-O-G-O-S.

K-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. A-N-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. A-N-H-A-L-O-G-O-S. All right. Now, he was right. So if you want to draw your line, find John 1 -1 on the other page, which is almost down at the bottom.

Take your little line and draw from that to John 1 -1. Because I want you to have these, because later you'll get to take this home, and you'll at least, you'll know that these verses go with these. Uh-huh.

You know the next one? Look, look. I was just saying it, because I already did it. You already know them. Look at you. Let him have it. All right, all right. Is that important, man? Go on and say it. Let him have it.