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Introduction to Key Greek Vocabulary
Welcome back to Bible Student Languages! This is 10 of the most important Greek words to buff your Greek vocabulary, so let’s get straight into it.
1. God – Theos
Number one is God, which is Theos. This shows up in verses like Matthew 5:8, which said, “Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see Theos,” which is God.
2. Lord – Curios
Number two is Lord, or Curios. Curios shows up in verses like Philippians 2:11, “Every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is Curios, the Lord.”
3. Christ – Christos
Number three is Christ, which is just a transliteration of the Greek Christos. We get the first five letters Christ and so Christos. Now you’ll notice that this looks like an X, so you might think it’s Christos, but it’s pronounced like the Hebrew khet or kaf, and so we have k’ Christos. And that shows up in verses like Matthew 16:16, which says, “You are the Christos, the Son of the Living God.”
4. Faith – Pistis
Number four is Faith, or Pistis. Pistis, in verses like “The Righteous shall live by Pistis,” Faith in Romans 1:17.
5. Grace – Charis
Number five, Charis. Again, we have the X looking thing in the beginning, it’s not X, like in English it is X, and we have Charis, which is Grace. In verses like, “By Charis, you’ve been saved through Faith,” which if you remember is Pistis. By Charis, you’ve been saved through Pistis. Grace, you’ve been saved through Faith.
6. Righteousness – Dikaiosynē
Number six is Righteousness, extremely important in Paul’s letters. He talks a lot about Dikaiosynē, Dikaiosynē. Now we’re going to break this one down real quick, because this has three vowels in the middle right here, the A, the I, and the O, and you might be tempted to say Dikaiousinē, but this A-I is what’s called a diphthong, which is where two letters, two vowels, come together to make one sound, and this makes the A or the I sound. So Dikaiu or Dikaiu, so this here is actually only two vowel sounds, Dikai-u-si-nei. Now this U-looking thing will sometimes make a U sound or a long vowel sound when it’s placed next to a vowel, but when it’s all by itself, it makes the I sound like a Y. And so we have Dikaiosynē, Righteousness, in verses like “The dikaiosynē of God has been manifested,” which is Romans 3:21.
7. Salvation – Sōtēria
Next up we have Salvation, which is Sōtēria. Sōtēria, in verses like “Today, Salvation, Sōtēria, has come to this house,” and if you’ve been paying attention, you might be able to understand this verse: “By Charis, you have been Sōtēria through Pistis.”
8. Love – Agapē
Number eight is Agapē. Agapē. This little mark right here is your stress mark, which syllable gets the stress, so it’s not Agape, it’s not Agape, it’s Agapē. Agapē in verses like “God is Love, God is Agapē” in 1 John 4:8.
9. Spirit – Pneuma
Number nine is Spirit or Pneuma. Now you see this is a P and an N, the P or the Pi right here becomes silent and so we have Numa. Now notice this right here, these two vowels in a row do not create a diphthong, so it is Neuma or Numa, which is Spirit.
10. Kingdom – Basileia
Number 10, we have Kingdom, which is Basileia, and again we have three vowels in a row, the E and the I together make an A sound, and the A makes an R sound, ironically. So we have Basileia, which is Kingdom, and so we have Matthew 6:33, which says, “Seek first the Basileia of Theos.”
Conclusion
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