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Conjunction · Grammar concept
Conjunction: τε, οὔτε
τε, οὔτε is a conjunction topic in Koine (biblical) Greek. This page gathers its forms, paradigms, and function, drawn from the lessons of Reading Greek Deeply.
SyntaxConjunction – τε, οὔτε
The enclitic conjunction τε often functions like καί to simply connect two things. It can also be used with καί to mean ‘both and’ as in
- (398) ‘Both … and …’ (with καί)
- We previously asserted that Ἰουδαίους τε καὶ Ἕλληνας πάντας ὑφ’ ἁμαρτίαν εἶναι [both Jews and Greeks, all, are under sin]’ (Rom 3:9)
τε may also be repeated in two conditional clauses with ἐάν to mean ‘whether this … or whether that’:
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