Morphology Catalog of Koine Greek Verbs

Here is the first edition of a Morphology Catalog of Koine Greek Verbs. 12 pg pdf; small print (9 pt) double col. listing about 250 verbs with forms that often puzzle beginning students (and sometimes others of us as well). This is not a “principle parts chart,” though such forms are included. It covers a much wider range of forms. It is based primarily on frequency in the NT and LXX: verbs which occur more than 25 times in the NT and more than 100 times in the LXX. The actual forms included, however, are not limited to those which occur in the NT or the LXX. It covers a wider swath than that, though it’s not exhaustive for all koine writings related to the NT.

I have several purposes in mind for this catalog, but the primary one is as a supplement to Danker’s new Concise Lexicon of the NT—which gives NO morphology information in the main entries. (Second aorist forms, etc. are sometimes listed alphabetically, but nothing within each entry as is given in BDAG.) I plan to use the CL for first year Greek from now on, but without the morphology data, it doesn’t provide the first year student with the help he needs in that area. The definitions provided in a concise lexicon more than outweigh that loss for pedagogical purposes, and I figured that I could supplement the morphology data—thus this catalog.

I have deliberately formatted it in such a size that it can be printed, trimmed, and “tipped in” the back of the CL if anyone desires to do that.

I am quite confident that you will find some errors here. I’ve spent a couple of weeks on this and proofread it several times, but this amount of raw data is bound to hide a variety of bloopers. Some will be typos, others the inattention of staring at my laptop screen for too many hours on end, others will simply be misinterpreting the data from BDAG—a primary source for this catalog, though I’ve supplemented it heavily with other tools and with Accordance. (I’ve run more Accordance searches in the past two weeks than I’ve run in a long time!) So for all the errata that you find, I’d greatly appreciate you posting them in the comments here, or, after the comments close (I think a month?), use the Contact form at the top of the right sidebar. (Of course those of you who have my email address are welcome to send them directly.) In due time I’ll post an updated, corrected copy.

And if you have a favorite verb form that always causes you trouble that I’ve not included, post that as well. Perhaps the list will expand a bit in due time.

KoineVerbMorphology.pdf