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Verb: Pure state perfects
Pure state perfects is a verb topic in Koine (biblical) Greek. This page gathers its forms, paradigms, and function, drawn from the lessons of Reading Greek Deeply.
SemanticsVerb – Pure state perfects
The pure state reading of Leluka (introduced originally in 23.2.3.2) only works for a limited set of verbs. By far the most common verb is οἶδα ‘know’. This verb is originally from the root ειδ meaning ‘to see.’ However, it would be wrong to conclude from this that the real meaning of οἶδα is to know by seeing. The word οἶδα has taken on a new meaning of ‘to know’, but you can see how this developed. The result of having seen something is that you know something about it. This points to the basic semantics of at least some verbs that fall into the pure state class. They are, or were originally, verbs that refer to a result state:
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