Nicene Creed – Vocabulary by Part of Speech

Color-Coded Lexical Analysis in Greek

Nouns

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• 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

Adjectives

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• 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

Verbs

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• 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

Prepositions

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

Adverbs

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• πάλιν – Again
• οὐκ – Not

Pronouns

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

Conjunctions

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

Indeclinables

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• Ἀμήν – Amen