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Learning To Use New Testament Greek: Lesson IV

This document provides guidelines for pronouncing letters in New Testament Greek and includes sample Greek text from John chapter 1. It begins with a table listing the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet along with English examples of words derived from those letters. It then outlines 8 guidelines for pronouncing Greek letters according to their placement within words, such as a single consonant going with the following vowel. The document concludes by providing the full text of John 1:1-5 in Greek as an example to demonstrate the pronunciation guidelines.

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Learning To Use New Testament Greek: Lesson IV

This document provides guidelines for pronouncing letters in New Testament Greek and includes sample Greek text from John chapter 1. It begins with a table listing the 24 letters of the Greek alphabet along with English examples of words derived from those letters. It then outlines 8 guidelines for pronouncing Greek letters according to their placement within words, such as a single consonant going with the following vowel. The document concludes by providing the full text of John 1:1-5 in Greek as an example to demonstrate the pronunciation guidelines.

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Learning To Use

New Testament
Greek
Lesson IV
Rex A. Tanchuan


eta


chi


beta


theta


delta


alpha

epsilon


zeta

upsilon

gamma

iota

lambda


nu

kappa


xi

omicron


rho


pi


mu


psi


tau


omega


phi


sigma

apostle

body (cf. somatic)

sound (cf. phone)

heart (cf. cardiac)

fear (cf. phobia)

race (cf. genus)

Philip

departure (cf. Exodus)

life (cf. zoology)

Peter

God (cf. theology)

woman (cf. gynecology)

father (cf. paternal)

city (cf. political

Christ

soul (cf. psychology)

Guidelines For Pronunciation


1. There is one vowel (or
diphthong) per syllable.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


2. A single consonant by itself
(not in a cluster) goes with
the following vowel.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


3. Two consecutive vowels,
which do NOT form a
diphthong, are divided.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


4. A cluster that does NOT

begin a word is divided and


the first consonant goes
with the preceding vowel.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


5. A consonant cluster that can
begin a word goes with the
following vowel.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


6. Double consonants are
divided.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


7. Any consonant plus a or
goes with the following
vowel.

Guidelines For Pronunciation


8. Compound words are
divided where joined.

John 1:1


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,
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John 1:2

John 1:3


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John 1:4

John 1:5



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