How to read the fourth line of an interlinear

[Nig]

Does anyone have any good resources on how to read the fourth line in an interlinear for amateurs. This is the line that indicates tense, mood etc . Prefer web page link please.

 

[Radagast]

Does anyone have any good resources on how to read the fourth line in an interlinear for amateurs. This is the line that indicates tense, mood etc . Prefer web page link please.

You'd have to learn some grammar basics (like, what the aorist tense is). I don't think there's any easy way to make sense of it -- that part is intended for people who know some of the language.

 

[granpa]

THE STANDARDS AND ELEMENTS

 

[Radagast]

THE STANDARDS AND ELEMENTS

That's exactly what you don't need -- it contains several errors and inaccuracies.

There's no substitute for taking a few Greek classes. If you don't, it's better to just ignore that stuff and look at the English tenses.

 

[Nig]

THE STANDARDS AND ELEMENTS

Thank you, it may take some digesting but will be worth it...

 

[Nig]

THE STANDARDS AND ELEMENTS

That's exactly what you don't need -- it contains several errors and inaccuracies.

There's no substitute for taking a few Greek classes. If you don't, it's better to just ignore that stuff and look at the English tenses.

Any better suggestions ? I do use youngs literal a bit to help sort out tense but I was kinda hoping to find a guide to what that line was saying so I would not have to figure out youngs .

 

[Radagast]

Any better suggestions ? I do use youngs literal a bit to help sort out tense but I was kinda hoping to find a guide to what that line was saying so I would not have to figure out youngs .

My suggestion is that, if you're really interested in Greek tenses, you pick up an introductory Greek text, and at least read the descriptions of how the tenses work. I don't think there's another way of getting a "feel" for the tenses.

 

[childofdust]

Any better suggestions ? I do use youngs literal a bit to help sort out tense.

NOT A GOOD IDEA.

Young had some ABSOLUTELY CRAZY concepts about Hebrew tense back in his day. He stated, emphatically, that all the scholars of his time were wrong about Hebrew tense (they weren't), that there was no evidence anywhere in ancient Semitic languages for the Hebrew tenses scholars advocated (I've been translating texts in Ugaritic, Moabite, Canaanite, Phoenician, and Amorite - and I've seen the same tenses as in Hebrew again and again and again and again). Thus, his translation of Hebrew verbs is pretty much totally and utterly wrong. Everywhere. In every sentence. In every paragraph. In every chapter. In the entire Old Testament.

STAY FAR, FAR AWAY FROM YOUNG'S LITERAL TRANSLATION. IT IS AN ABOMINATION OF ERROR.

As for the Greek, however... That's something else.

 

[Radagast]

As for the Greek, however... That's something else.

It's not all that great for Greek either.

 

[Nig]

Hmm scorching but no great help either.....

I have some grasp of tense but I would like to read it for myself......

 

[Nig]

Hmm scorching but no great help either.....

I have some grasp of tense but I would like to read it for myself......

 

[Nig]

Blue letter bible app has been very helpful