Well, I think the aorist has a specific meaning according to the circumstance and that a semelfactive perfective interpretation gives itself in many instances. The Latin perfectum is more or less the same as the aorist in the past, and for many verbs it is based on former aorist forms, especially the s-aorist.

May 16, 2014 · Usually, aorist is understood as a combination of perfective (aspect) and past (tense) (Plungian 2012). Preterite is a simple past, aspectually non-marked - thus, such combinations as Perfective Preterite and Imperfective Preterite are possible. Under this proposal, aorist is a kind of preterite (i.e. Aorist=Perfective Preterite).

Oct 11, 2021 · Aorist is always past tense - No; the aorist is basically (the equivalent of) a gerund acting as an attribute, rather than a complement; e.g., the sentence he came at us guns blazing, with tears running down his face contains two aorist constructions.

Nov 6, 2015 · aorist: there was historically a spiritus asper /h/ as shown by the related word ὅρος horos "boundary." I was confused before researching this because later on, at least in English words of Greek origin, the an- form started to be used before roots with historical spiritus asper, but I don't know when this occurred.

Oct 14, 2021 · There are aorist infinitives and imperatives that do not imply temporality at all. For example, the Lord's Prayer in Matthew 6:11 uses the aorist imperative in "Give (δός dós) us this day our daily bread",[8] in contrast to the analogous passage in Luke 11:3, which uses the imperfective aspect, implying repetition, with "Give (δίδου ...

Sep 19, 2015 · As Stagg points out, the actions thus portrayed are indeed punctiliar, but it is not the aorist aspect as such that makes them so. Applied to John 3:16, the aorist inflection of ἠγάπησεν does not indicate that he loved the world once or only once (nor does it indicate a past, present, or future orientation of the action). It simply ...

In these forms, like the imperative and infinitive, the aorist still indicates a single point in time—but it doesn't have to be in the past. That's what's happening here. The "present" forms here are actually imperfective, indicating a duration, while the "aorist" forms are perfective (or sometimes aoristic), indicating a point. Agni should ...

Both ἐγένετο and ἐσκήνωσεν are in the aorist indicative, which is usually translated as a simple past, so that it says "And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father, full of grace and truth." NASB. However, in 1 Peter 1:24, the aorist indicative is translated

Aug 10, 2017 · “Aorist presents” is a term used by many (but not all) Indo-Europeanists to describe verb forms for the present tense with zero-grade ablaut (like the strong aorist). A classic example is Sanskrit tudati “he bumps into”, which forms its present tense from the zero-grade root *tud-, not the full grade *taud-.

May 11, 2021 · In John 3:16 starting with ἠγάπησεν (aorist), the verbs shift to tenses signifying past actions. Does this mean Jesus' discourse with Nicodemus stopped with 3:15, and 3:16 starts John's narrative? Lang gives three basic positions: The dialog stopped and John picked up the discussion in v16; position of Erasmus