21: Perfect Participles

Question 1

καιρός, ὁ

Answer 1

season; a time, age

Question 2

ῥῆμα, ῥήματος, τό

Answer 2

word, speech

Question 3

χρόνος, ὁ

Answer 3

time

Question 4

ὣρα, ἡ

Answer 4

hour

Question 5

εὐθύς

Answer 5

immediately

Question 6

ἐπιπίπτω

Answer 6

I fall upon

Question 7

ἒτι

Answer 7

still

Question 8

ἑτοιμάζω

Answer 8

I prepare

Question 9

Ἰόππη, ἡ

Answer 9

Joppa

Question 10

Ἰουδαία, ἡ

Answer 10

Judea

Question 11

κάθημαι

Answer 11

I sit

Question 12

κώμη, ἡ

Answer 12

village

Question 13

οἳ

Answer 13

“who” (m n pl, relative pronoun)

Question 14

Πετρός, ὁ

Answer 14

Peter

Question 15

πῦρ, πυρός, τό

Answer 15

fire

Question 16

σατανᾶς, ὁ

Answer 16

Satan

Question 17

φαρισαῖος, ὁ

Answer 17

Pharisee

Question 18

Recite Masculine Perfect Participle Paradigm

Answer 18

Question 19

Recite Feminine Perfect Participle Paradigm

Answer 19

Question 20

Recite Neuter Perfect Participle Paradigm

Answer 20

Question 21

In what ways are Perfect Participles used?

Answer 21

They are used in the same way as the other participles: adjectival (attributive and substantive) and adverbial (predicate).

Question 22

What two meanings are communicated by the perfect participle?

Answer 22

1. Completion of an event (in which case it functions like an English pluperfect)
2. A resulting state that the completed action initiates

Question 23

What is the Genitive Absolute?

Answer 23

An idiom that utilizes an adverbial participle to add background information to a statement.

Question 24

Of what two things does the genitive absolute consists?

Answer 24

1. Noun or pronoun in the genitive case
2. Adverbial Participle agreeing with the noun or pronoun in gender, case, and number.

Question 25

How do you translate a genitive absolute?

Answer 25

As you would any adverbial participle.

• for a present participle use “while”, “when”, or “as”
• for an aorist use “after”

Question 26

ὀψία, ἡ

Answer 26

evening

Question 27

ὀψίας δὲ γεγομένης

Answer 27

“and after it became evening…”

Genitive absolute example (frequent in the New Testament)

Question 28

What is the periphrastic use of participles?

Answer 28

Participles commonly used in combination with the verb “to be” (εἰμί)

Question 29

What are the two most common periphrastic formations in the NT?

Answer 29

1. Periphrastic Imperfect - imperfect of εἰμί + present participle
   (ex. ἦσαν πορευόμενοι, “were traveling”)
2. Periphrastic Pluperfect - imperfect of εἰμί + perfect participle
   (ex. οὔπω ἦν βεβλημένος, “not yet been thrown”)