14 2 Strong Aorist Verbs in Greek New Testament Made Easier Ver2 2024

STRONG AORISTS: In this video, you will learn about the strong aorist indicative active as it is used in New Testament Greek. New information is best learned by moving from the familiar to the unfamiliar. Thus Rob McIver starts with what is familiar: using the English simple past tense as a translation for the aorist tense in Greek. He then explores the aspect of the aorist tense, as well as briefly mentioning considerations of type of action and time. The video continues by looking at the strong aorists of some of the more frequently occurring verbs in the New Testament, the paradigm of the strong aorist, and some examples of its use, comparing the strong aorist indicative active with the present indicative active. The video concludes by offering advice on how to make strong aorists easier to understand and translate.

The video follows Chapter 14 of the book by Robert K. McIver, “Beginning New Testament Greek Made Easier”. Latest edition: 8th edition, available in paperback and as a Kindle eBook (search 0648640809 for paperback or B0CRBZ22M5 for eBook on amazon.com, amazon.com.au, etc.).

Other videos in this series include:
14 1 Tense in New Testament Greek for beginners but with enough detail to be useful
14 2 Strong Aorist Verbs in Greek New Testament Made Easier
15 1 Weak Aorist Tense in Greek New Testament Made Easier
16 2 Aorist ind act of μι verbs made easier
16 3 The aorist tense of ἀποστέλλω φέρω and other interesting verbs
16 4 How to recognize Weak and Strong Aorist Verbs in the Greek NT

Other videos by Rob McIver on the grammar and syntax of New Testament Greek may be found on the channel, @NTGreekMadeEasier.


Outline
00:00 Introduction
00:24 The 5 Greek tenses
00:53 What is the aorist tense?
01:02 Aspect of aorist tense
02:12 Strong and weak aorists
02:59 List of commonly occurring verbs in NT
03:46 English simple past for regular verbs
05:36 English simple past for irregular verbs
07:13 Strong aorist of commonly occurring verbs
10:40 Accents on the aorist tense
11:25 Paradigm of the strong aorist indicative active
12:44 Examples comparing aorist and present
14:56 Aorist of compound verbs
15:44 Summing up What is the aorist indicative tense?
16:36 Making the strong aorists easier
19:35 Other videos

Rob (Professor Robert K. McIver if we are being formal) has been teaching NT Greek to on-campus students at Avondale University, NSW, Australia, since 1989, and also to distance students since 2001. In addition to his articles that have appeared in academic journals, his book publications include:
“Beginning New Testament Greek Made Easier”. Martinsville, NSW: Barnard Publishing, 2024.
“Intermediate New Testament Greek Made Easier”. Martinsville, NSW: Barnard Publishing, 2022.
“Verbatim and Gist Parallels Between the Gospels: Coded Greek Synopsis and Selected Statistics”. 3rd edition. Cooranbong, NSW: Avondale Academic Press, 2022.
“Memory, Jesus and the Synoptic Gospels”. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011; Leiden: Brill, 2012.
“Mainstream or Marginal?: The Matthean Community in Early Christianity”. Friedensauer Schriftenreihe A12. Frankfurt am Main: Lang, 2012.
“1 and 2 Peter”. Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2016.
“Tithing Practices Among Seventh-day Adventists: A Study of Tithe Demographics and Motives in Australia, Brazil, England, Kenya and the United States”. Cooranbong, NSW; Silver Spring MD: Avondale Academic Press/General Conference Office of Archives, Statistics and Research, 2016.
“Beyond the Da Vinci Code”. Nampa, ID: Pacific Press, 2006.
“Ezekiel: Through Crises to Glory”. Boise, ID: Pacific Press, 1997.