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Nicene Creed – Vocabulary by Part of Speech

Color-Coded Lexical Analysis in Greek

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Nouns

  • Θεός – God
  • Πατήρ – Father
  • Κύριος – Lord
  • Υἱός – Son
  • Πνεῦμα – Spirit
  • σωτηρία – Salvation
  • φῶς – Light
  • βασιλεία – Kingdom
  • Ἐκκλησία – Church
  • ζωή – Life
  • ἁμαρτία – Sin
  • νεκρός – Dead one
  • προφήτης – Prophet

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Adjectives

  • ἕνα – One
  • μονογενής – Only-begotten
  • ἀληθινός – True
  • ὁμοούσιος – Of one essence
  • ἅγιος – Holy
  • κύριος – Lordly
  • ζωοποιός – Life-giving
  • μία – One (fem.)
  • καθολική – Catholic
  • ἀποστολική – Apostolic
  • μέλλων – Coming/Future

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Verbs

  • πιστεύω – I believe
  • γεννάω – I beget
  • ποιέω – I make
  • κατέρχομαι – I descend
  • σαρκόομαι – I become flesh
  • ἐνανθρωπέω – I become man
  • σταυρόω – I crucify
  • πάσχω – I suffer
  • θάπτω – I bury
  • ἀνίστημι – I rise
  • ἀναβαίνω – I ascend
  • κάθημαι – I sit
  • ἔρχομαι – I come
  • κρίνω – I judge
  • λαλέω – I speak
  • ὁμολογέω – I confess
  • προσδοκάω – I expect

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Prepositions

  • εἰς – into
  • ἐκ – from
  • πρὸ – before
  • διὰ – through
  • μετὰ – with
  • ἐπὶ – upon
  • κατὰ – according to
  • σὺν – with

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Adverbs

  • πάλιν – Again
  • οὐκ – Not

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Pronouns

  • ἡμᾶς – us
  • ἡμετέρα – our
  • οὗ – of whom

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Conjunctions

  • καὶ – and
  • τε ... καὶ – both ... and

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Indeclinables

  • Ἀμήν – Amen