BBL 105: Syllabus

BBL 105 • OFFICIAL COURSE SYLLABUS

BBL 105: Core Koine Greek Vocabulary & Nominals

Welcome to BBL 105: Core Koine Greek Vocabulary & Nominals! Students build a strong foundation of the 300 highest-frequency words in the Greek New Testament while mastering the five Greek cases (Nominative, Genitive, Dative, Accusative, Vocative), First, Second, and Third Declension nouns, the Greek article, adjectives, prepositions, pronouns, and Present Active Indicative verbs.

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5-Chapter Curriculum Outline (31 Lessons & 31 Assessments)

Chapter 1: High-Frequency Theological Vocabulary of the Greek New Testament

Acquiring the core vocabulary that accounts for over 75% of all word occurrences in the GNT.

  • Lesson 1: Christological Vocabulary: Theos, Kyrios, Christos, Iesous, Huios, Logos, Pneuma
  • Lesson 2: Soteriological Vocabulary: Charis, Pistis, Pisteuo, Dikaiosyne, Soter, Soteria, Hamartia
  • Lesson 3: Ecclesiological and Ethical Vocabulary: Ekklesia, Agape, Agapao, Koinonia, Doulos, Mathetes
  • Lesson 4: Eschatological and Kingdom Vocabulary: Basileia, Aion, Aionios, Zoe, Parousia, Doxa
  • Lesson 5: High-Frequency Conjunctions and Particles (kai, de, gar, oun, alla, hoti, hina)
Chapter 2: The Greek Case System and First & Second Declension Nouns

Understanding how Greek cases function and mastering 1st and 2nd declension paradigms.

  • Lesson 1: How Inflection Works: Stem, Connecting Vowel, and Case Ending
  • Lesson 2: Functions of the Five Cases: Nominative (Subject), Genitive (Possession), Dative (Indirect Object), Accusative (Direct Object), Vocative
  • Lesson 3: Second Declension Masculine (-os) and Neuter (-on) Nouns (logos, theos, ergon, teknon)
  • Lesson 4: First Declension Feminine (-a, -e) and Masculine (-as, -es) Nouns (hora, kardias, graphe, prophetes)
  • Lesson 5: The Greek Definite Article (ho, he, to): The Master Key to Greek Case, Gender, and Number
Chapter 3: Third Declension Nouns, Adjectives, and Prepositions

Recognizing consonant-stem 3rd declension nouns, adjective agreement, and prepositional phrases.

  • Lesson 1: Introduction to the Third Declension: Consonant Stems and Case Endings (sarx, charis, pistis, pneuma)
  • Lesson 2: First/Second Declension Adjectives (agathos, hagios, dikaios, pistos)
  • Lesson 3: Attributive, Predicate, and Substantival Positions of the Greek Adjective
  • Lesson 4: Greek Prepositions with One, Two, and Three Cases (en, eis, ek, apo, dia, kata, meta, pros, hyper)
  • Lesson 5: How Case Governs the Meaning of Greek Prepositions (Spatial, Temporal, and Instrumental)
Chapter 4: Greek Pronouns: Personal, Demonstrative, Relative, and Reflexive

Mastering ego, sy, autos, houtos, ekeinos, and hos across all cases.

  • Lesson 1: First and Second Person Personal Pronouns (ego, hemeis, sy, hymeis)
  • Lesson 2: The Threefold Function of autos: Personal Pronoun, Intensive Adjective, and Identical Adjective
  • Lesson 3: Near and Far Demonstrative Pronouns (houtos ‘this’ and ekeinos ‘that’)
  • Lesson 4: The Relative Pronoun (hos, he, ho) and Antecedent Agreement
  • Lesson 5: Reflexive, Reciprocal (allelon), Interrogative (tis), and Indefinite (tis) Pronouns
Chapter 5: Present Indicative Verbs and Basic Clause Translation

Parsing Present Active and Middle/Passive Indicative verbs and translating GNT clauses.

  • Lesson 1: Anatomy of the Greek Verb: Person, Number, Tense-Form, Voice, and Mood
  • Lesson 2: Present Active Indicative of lyo (‘I loose’) and Contract Verbs (-ao, -eo, -oo)
  • Lesson 3: Present Indicative of eimi (‘I am’) and Predicate Nominatives
  • Lesson 4: Present Middle and Passive Indicative (-omai, -e, -etai, -ometha, -esthe, -ontai)
  • Lesson 5: Guided Translation Lab: Reading 1 John 1:1-10 and John 1:1-14 in Koine Greek