Vocab list for Greek Mark Exam

This is most of the list, minus chapter 16, for those of you who would benefit from a digital format.

Mark 8

σπλαγχνίζομαι – have pity, feel sympathy

προσμένω – I remain, stay

νηστις, ὁ, ἡ – not eating, hungry

μακρόθεν – from far

πόθεν – from where

χορτάζω – fill, satisfy

ἐρημία, ἡ – wilderness, dessert

παραγγέλλω – give order, command, instruct, direct

εὐχαριστέω – give thanks

χλάω – break

παρατίθημι – set before

ἰχθύδιον, τό – little fish

ὀλίγος – little, few, small

εὐλογέω – bless

παρίσσευμα, τό – what remains, scraps, abundance

χλάσμα, τό – fragment, piece, crumb.

στιρίς, ή – basket, hamper

τετραχισχίλιοι – four thousand

ἐυβαίνω – embark, go in

μερός, τό – pl. district, region

πειπάζω – test, tempt

ἀναστενάζω – sigh deeply

γενεά – generation

ἐμβαίνω – embark, go in

ἐπιλανθάνομαι – forget, neglect

ζύμη – leaven

ουπω – not yet

νοέω – consider, perceive

σινίημι – understand

οῠς, τό – ear

μνημονεύω – remember

πέντε – five

πεντακισχίλιοι – five thousand

πλήρης – full, filled

ἐπιλαμβάνομαι – take hold of, grasp

ἐκφέρω – lead, carry or bring out

πτύω – spit

ὄμμα, τό – eye

δένδρον, τό – tree

εἴτα – then

διαβλέπω – look intently, open one’s eyes wide, see clearly

ἀποκαθίστημι – restore, give back

ἐμβλέπω – look at

ἅπας – all

βαπτιστής – Baptist

πάσχω – suffer

ἀποδοκιμάζω – reject

παρρησία, ή – outspokenness, openness, confidence; plainly, openly

φρονέω – set one’s mind on, think, be minded

ἁπαρνέομαι – deny

σταυρός, ό – cross

ἕνεκεν – because of, on account of

ὠφελέω – profit, benefit

κερδαίνω – gain

ζημιόω – (only passive) suffer loss, forfeit

ἀντάλλαγμα, τό – something given in exchange

ἑπαισχύνομια – be ashamed

μοιχαλίς, ἡ – adulteress; (adj.) adulterous

Chapter 9

γεύομαι – taste

ἕξ – six

ὑψηλός – high

μεταμορφόω – transform, transfigure

ἕμπροσθεν – before

λευχός – white

λίαν – very (much), exceedingly

οῐος – such as, what sort

λευκαίνω – bleach, whiten

συλλαλέω – speak together

σκηνή – tent, booth

νεφέλη, ἡ – cloud

ἐπισκιάζω – overshadow

πάσχω – suffer

ἐκθαμβέω – (only pass.) be amazed

προστρέχω – run up to

ἅλαλος – dumb, mute

καταλαμβάνω – lay hold of, seize, overtake

ὀδούς, τό – tooth

ἰσχύω – be able, be strong

ἀνέχω – (only mid.) bear with, endure

παιδιόθεν – from childhood

παλλάκις – often, many times, frequently

βοηθέω – help

ἐπισυντρέχω – run together

ἐπιτάσσω – order, command

μηκέτι – no longer

σταράσσω – tear, pull to and fro, convulse

ὡσεί – as, like

γένος, τό – class, kind; race

προσευχή, τό – prayer

κἀκεῐθεν – and from there

ἀγνοέω – be ignorant, not to know

σιωπάω – be silent

διαλέγομαι – discuss

μείζων – greater (comparative for superl.)

διάκονος, ὁ – servant, minister

κωλύω – hinder, forbid, prevent

ταχύ – quickly, at once

κακολογέω – speak evil of, revile, insult

ποτίζω – cause to drink, give to drink

μισθός – reward, pay

μικρός – little, small

περίκειμαι – lie, be placed around, wear

μύλος, ὁ – millstone

ὀνικός – pertaining to a donkey

τράκηλος, ὁ – neck

ἀποκόπτω – vut off

ἅσβεστος – inextinguishable

μονόφθαλμος – one-eyed

ἁλίζω – salt

ἅλας, τό – salt

ἄναλος – saltless, insipid

Chapter 15

συνέδριον, τό – council, Sanhedrin

κατηγορέω – accuse

θαυμάζω – marvel, wonder

ἑορτή – feast, festival

δέσμιος – prisoner

παραιτέομαι – ask for, request; decline, reject

στάσις, ἡ – insurrection, sedition

φόνος, ὁ – murder

φθόνος, ὁ – envy

ἀνασείω – stur up, incite

παρισσως – exceedingly, beyond measure, very

βούλομια – wish, will, want

ἱκανός – sufficient, fit, many

φραγελλόω – scourge, flog

στρατιώτης, ό – soldier

ἀπάγω – lead away, bring to

ἕσω – inside

αὐλή – courtyard, court

πραιτώριον, τό – governor’s official residence

συγκαλέω – call together, summon

σπεῐρα, ἡ – cohort

ἐνδιδύσκω – dress, put on

πορφύρω – purple, purple garment

περιτίθημι – put or place around, wear

ἀκάνθινος – thorny

στέφανος, ό – crown

χαῐρε – greetings

τύπτω – strike, beat

κάλαμος, ὁ – reed, stalk, staff

ἐμπτύω – spit on

γόνυ, τό – knee

ἐμπαίζω – mock, ridicule

μεθερμηνεύω – translate

οῐνος – wine

διαμερίζω – divide

κληρος, – lot

τρίτος – third

ἐπιγραφη, – inscription

αἰτία – charge, accusation, reason

ἐπιγράφω – write on

ληστής, – robber

εὐώνυμος – left

παραπορεομαι – go or pass by, go through

βλασφημέω – blaspheme, slander

οὐά – aha!

καταλύω – tear down, destroy

ναός – temple

οἰκοδομέω – build

ὁμοίως – likewise

ἐμπαίζω – ridicule, mock

συσταυρόω – crucify together

ὀνειδίζω – reproach

ἕκτος – sixth

σκότος – darkness

ἕνατος – ninth

βοάω – cry aloud

μεθερμηνεύω – forsake utterly

γενίζω – fill

σπόγγος, ὁ – sponge

ὅξος, τό – sour wine, wine vinegar

περιτίθημι – put or place around

καθαιρέω – take down, bring down, destroy

ἐκπνέω – expire, breathe out

καταπέτασμα, τό – veil, curtain

ναός – temple

σχιζω – split, divide

ἅνωθεν – from above, from top

κάτω – down, bottom

κεντυρίωον – centurion

ἐναντίος – opposite, against

πτωμα, τό – corpse

σινδών, ὁ – linen

Illuminated Manuscripts

This brings us to the true function of decoration in a twelfth-century book. It was clearly not just because it was pretty. The twelfth century was an age which delighted in classification and ordering of knowledge. Its most admired writers, men like Peter Lombard and Gratian, arranged and shuffled information into order that was accessible and easy to use. Twelfth-century readers loved encyclopedias…Les us then consider book illumination in these terms. It suddenly becomes easy to understand. Initials mark the beginning of books or chapters (PL.85). They make a manuscript easy to use. It helps classify the priorities of the text…A newspaper does this today with headlines of different sizes…any reader of a modern newspaper will fiercely defend his choice of paper by praising the text, not the layout or illustrations. It is not surprising that the twelfth-century chroniclers from St. Albans, Lincoln, and Canterbury complimented the accuracy of manuscripts when what they meant was that they liked using them.

Christopher De Hamel, A History of Illuminated Manuscripts 99.

Amo, Amas, Amat

Amo, amas, I love a lass,
As a cedar tall and slender;
Sweet cowslip’s grace
Is her nom’native case,
And she’s of the feminine gender.
Rorum, corum,sunt Divorum!
Harum, scarum, Divo!
Tag rag, merry derry, periwig and hatband!
Hic hoc horum Genitivo!

-John O’Keeffe, Agreeable Surprise II.ii

All Truth is God’s Truth

A person who is a good and true Christian should realize that truth belongs to his Lord, wherever it is found, gathering and acknowledging it even in pagan literature, but rejecting superstitious vanities and deploring and avoiding those who ‘though they knew God did not glorify him as God…’

Saint Augustine, On Christian Teaching II.75

Cicero on Treachery

No treachery is more insidious than that which is hidden under a pretence of loyalty, or under the name of kinship. For against an open adversary you could be on your guard and thus easily avoid him; but this hidden evil, within the house and family, not only arises before you are aware but even overwhelms you before you can catch sight of it and investigate it.

Cicero, In Verr., 2.1.13

The Paradox of Love

You, sir, have taught me the paradox of love. Strong yet gentle, patient yet pressing ahead, mature and yet young . . . This indeed would puzzle any sage, and fill him with wonder like a ship on the sea or a serpent on a rock . . .

– Petite Huguenotte, Letters to my Fiance

The Unnameable Names of God

How then can we speak of the divine names? How can we do this if the Transcendent surpasses all discourse and all knowledge, if it abides beyond the reach of mind and of being, if it encompasses and circumscribes, embraces and anticipates all thins while itself eluding their grasp and escaping from any perception, imagination, opinion, name, discourse, apprehension, or understanding? How can we enter upon this undertaking if the Godhead is superior to being and is unspeakable and unnameable?

-Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names, 5.

Realizing all this, the theologians praise it by every name–and as the Nameless One…This surely is the wonderful “name which is above every name: and is therefore without a name…And yet on the other hand they give it many names, such as “I am being,” “life,” “light,” “God,” the “truth.” These same wise writers…use names drawn from all the things caused: goo, beautiful, wise, beloved, God of gods, Lord of Lords, Holy of Holies, eternal, existent, Cause of the ages. They call him source of life, wisdom, mind, word, knower, possessor beforehand of all the treasures of knowledge, power, powerful, and King of Kings, ancient of days, the unaging and unchanging, salvation, righteousness and sanctification, redemption, greatest of all and yet the one in the still breeze. They say he is in our minds, in our souls, and in our bodies, in heaven and on earth, that while remaining ever within himself he is is also in and around and above the world, that he is above heaven and above all being, that he is sun, star, and fire, water, wind, and dew, cloud, archetype stone, and rock that he is all, that he is no thing.

-Pseudo-Dionysius, The Divine Names, 6.

Milton on the Vaudois

This poem was written by John Milton concerning the persecution of the Vaudois (Waldenses). Milton, along with Sir Morland, used his gift of prose to try to stop the Duke of Savoy from massacring these French Huguenots.

Avenge, O Lord, thy slaughtered saints, whose bones

Lie scattered on the Alpine mountains cold;

E’en them, who kept thy truth so pure of old,

When all our fathers worshipped stocks and stones,

Forget not: in thy book record their groans,

Who were thy sheep, and in their ancient fold

Slain by the bloody Piedmontese, that roll’d

Mother with infant down the rocks. Their moans

The vales redoubled to the hills, and they

To heaven. Their martyred blood and ashes sow

O’er all the Italian fields, where still doth sway

The triple tyrant; that from these may grow

An hundred-fold, who, having learnt thy way,

Early may fly the Babylonian woe!

John Milton, in The Waldenses: Sketches of the Evangelical Christians of the Valleys of the Piedmont, Alexis Muston

Charity Bandanas

The following is from Benjamin Nieuwsma. Please take a second to read!

We are raising money for the Community Action Partnership in Moscow . The charity works to reach out to poor people in our area in a number of ways. The partnership provides food for people unable to afford it, clothing and health related expenses. Often the elderly on fixed incomes are unable to afford their heating bill during the winter and this partnership helps with that as well. They also help pay for educational expenses.

Unlike many other charities, the Community Action Partnership works towards self-sufficiency as much as it can, so for many of the underprivileged families, they help by providing work for them.

I am the project manager of a team of about a dozen students who chose this charity to raise money for as class project and we have come up with a couple different incentives for giving money to the partnership:

Donate 1 Dollar

For anyone donating a dollar to help the underprivileged in our area, we will enter them into a drawing for one of three $50 gift certificates for the online sporting good stores:

www.buysnow.com

www.buywake.com

www.buyskate.com

Donate 4 Dollars

For anyone who donates $4 (essentially the price of a nice coffee), we will give them a free bandana. They are black with a golden U of I logo design on them.

This charity is tax deductible and upon request we can provide you with verification of your donation. Unfortunately, due to some supplier problems on the bandanas, we are running out of time for this project. We need to know about everyone who is willing to donate by next Monday, November 26.

So, if you would be willing to donate a few dollars, it would be a great blessing to the charity, and a huge help to me and my team.

Please send me an email. (BenjaminN@vandals.uidaho.edu) or feel free to call (208-310-1841)

Thanks!

Benjamin Nieuwsma

One thing Ben mentioned to me is that you don’t have to pay him right away. So if you are away on break, just send him an email letting him know that you will be getting him the money whenever you get back.

Thanks!

Moscow City Council

O Socii, today is a great and honourable day. It is a day in which we can put to use our right as citizens of the Unitest States of America to elect our leaders. In days past leaders were often chosen through strength of arms. Men proved their courage on the battle field, fighting for their king, that they might live peaceful lives under their king. We have no bloody battle field on which to pour our blood and prove our valor, but we do have the Moscow Fair Grounds, and today, until 8 p.m. May it not be said of the students of New Saint Andrews college that they did not bother to go out and vote. Furthermore, this is going to be a close vote – 50 could turn the tide of the election. You may feel like it’s not your place to vote in Moscow, but it does affect you. It affects NSA, it affects the families you’re boarding with, and it affects our churches. If you’ve lived here for more than 30 days, you can vote! Please vote!

Please vote for Krauss and Carscallen for the 4 year seat (do not vote for a 3rd person) and Steed for the two year seat.

To the Polls!

Homo proponit, sed Deus disponit. O Socii, Proponite!

Cicero on Property Tax

When constant wars made the Roman treasury run short, our forefathers often used to levy a property tax. Every effort must be made to prevent a repetition of this; and all possible precautions must be taken to ensure that such a step will never be needed. What I am going to say now will refer to the world in general and not specifically to Rome, because when I am making ominous forecasts I would rather that they were directed towards other countries and not our own. But if any government should find itself under the necessity of levying a tax on property, the utmost care has to be devoted to making it clear to the entire population that this simply has to be done because no alternative exists short of complete national collapse.

Cicero, On the Good Life, On Duties, Book II

Cicero on the Sea

How beautiful again is the sea, and how splendid in its entirety, with its crowd and variety of islands, its picturesque coastlines and beaches! It is the home of so many different species of marine life, partly dwelling under water, partly floating and swimming on the surface, and partly encrusted on the rocks with its shells. The sea itself in its longing to embrace the land, sports on its shoreline, so that the two elements seem to merge into one.

Cicero, On the Nature of the Gods, book II

The Article

One of the greatest gifts bequeathed by the Greeks to Western civilization was the article. European intellectual life was profoundly impacted by this gift of clarity.

Wallace, Greek Grammar Beyond the Basics, An Exegetical Syntax of the New Testament, 207.

The Man of Learning

…Children ought to be provided with property and resources of a kind [referring to the tools of philosophic knowledge and learning] that could swim with them even out of a shipwreck. These are indeed the true supports of life, and neither Fortune’s adverse gale, nor political revolution, nor ravages of war can do them any harm. Developing the same idea, Theophrastus, urging men to acquire learning rather than to put their trust in money, states the case thus: “The man of learning is the only person in the world who is neither a stranger when in a foreign land, nor friendless when he has lost his intimates and relatives; on the contrary, he is a citizen of every country, and can fearlessly look down upon the troublesome accidents of fortune. But he who thinks himself entrenched in defenses not of learning but of luck, moves in slippery paths, struggling through life unsteadily and insecurely.”

~Vitruvius, De architectura (The Ten Books on Architecture), book VI. 1st century B.C.

All the gifts which fortune bestows she can easily take away; but education, when combined with intelligence, never fails, but abides steadily on to the very end of life.

Ibid