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Keep Your Greek: Reading Greek Devotionally

Many students wonder how to stay in their Greek New Testament consistently after finishing their Greek courses. Of course some upper level courses will utilize Greek or require translation, especially if you take a Greek elective. You will also need ways to keep up with your vocab and you will need to create a plan to read through books of the Bible. But, there is no better way to consistently enter the Greek New Testament than to integrate it into your daily devotional reading….

Keep Your Greek: Don’t Lose Your Vocabulary

August 5, 2015

Todd Scacewater

For some students, learning vocabulary is a breeze. For others, it’s like pulling teeth. Brains are simply wired differently and memorizing vocabulary will be easier for some than for others. The same is true for keeping your vocabulary. Just because you memorized words once for that final exam does not at all mean you will remember them. In fact, vocabulary probably slips away faster than other parts of the language, such as grammar and syntax. You will probably always remember that a subject is generally in the nominative case, and that an adverbial participle modifies a verb, but you may quickly forget what θηρίον means….