Dan Jones

Freelance Illustrator, follower of Jesus

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God is omnipresent - present in all places, at all times. Have a read of Psalm 139.

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ἄχρι

'achri'

Sounds a bit like 'I cry', maybe in a Scottish accent. Och, the lad hit me until ah cree!

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ἄφεσις

'aphesis' or 'aphes-ees'

It's got the 'phess' sound in the middle, which reminds me of 'confess' or 'fess up' - do so, and you will find forgiveness.

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λοιπός

'loipos' or 'lo-eepos'

Either way it looks a bit like 'low hippos' - how many hippos remaining? How many hippos have we got left over? We're a bit low on 'ippos!

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ἐάν

It sounds almost like 'Ian' - can mean when, or if, or can add 'ever' to words. Remember a verb in the subjunctive will often follow this one.

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@SynesisGreek Sorry, slow reply - I'm still learning, I find a mixture helpful but others will find different words difficult. Drawing and writing helps me to remember as well.

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πράσσω

I am happy to take some liberties - this one sounds a bit like 'practice' and 'bassoon' mixed together and can mean things like 'do' 'perform' and 'accomplish', all of which bassoon practice might help you with...

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@matthaios_x Looks like I just forgot the accent on the omega, sorry.

Yes it would be an incorrect pronunciation on the first ε - but half the time with mnemonics I'm just going for close enough to help me remember!

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ἐγω

I have an ego (hopefully it's not too big)

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πονηρός - poneros / ponyros

and κακός - kakos

Both adjectives meaning bad or evil. Don't name your pony 'Ross' because you're asking for trouble.

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Everything in creation had a beginning.
God was not created - didn't need to be, always has been, always will be.

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καθώς

The first one I came up with for this was 'even as cathartic as a catheter' but a) you might not want me to draw that and b) I kept remembering catheter rather than the actual meaning.

Here's a woman smashing an uncooperative printer.

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ἐξουσία

Well why would you!

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ἐκ

Any meatloaf fans? Like a bat out of 'eck!

Not all it can mean, but from / out of / out from are some of the most common translations.

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μετά

You'll know this word from facebook. This mnemonic is designed to be read in an Italian accent. I met-a with-a general! After I met-a him he-accusa-d me!

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διά

In modern pronunciation it sounds more like 'thia' so I remember it sounds a bit like 'via' for through - maybe it's close enough in Erasmian?

I hope you don't know any accusative accountants, but if you do you can teach them some Greek.

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Perhaps there's no perhaps about it. Come to church on Sunday and find out some more about what God's like.

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ἀπό

Fairly simple one - an apostate has generally turned away from their faith

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ὑπό

This one works better in modern pronunciation, but should be ok either way. Just your basic advice for hippo engagement really. In the genitive it's 'by', in the accusative it's 'under'.

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πρός

Not to be confused with πρό...

As far as I know this one is always followed by a word in the accusative, which is helpful.

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Preposition time!

παρά

This was a mnemonic someone had submitted to Bill Mounce's vocab section on his website - I used his textbook for year 1 Greek and found it very helpful.

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