Eight Noun Rules For Biblical Greek – Billy Kangas

I wrote a song this week for my Greek class. It deals with the Eight Noun Rules in William D. Mounce’s Basics of Biblical Greek Grammar

What do you think?

Here are the lyrics!

The first rule of nouns deals with stuff that connects

With the Alpha or Eta you’re in the First Set

An omicron’s second and the thirds consonants. The First Rule

The second rule deals with the neuter ending place

It’s the same in the nominative and accusative case

If the cases are plural it’ll probably be an

alpha because that’s the gist of rule three

The fourth rule is one you should write on your finger

The Iota subscripts in the Dative Singular

The fifth rule says vowels ablaut to create

contractions sometimes with another vowel mate

Or they’ll lengthen when a letter’s lost just to compensate, Rule Five

Rule six says the Masculine and Neuter will be

the same if the case is a “G” or a “D”

That’s for Genitive and Dative if your IQ is three, that’s Rule Six

Rule Seven deals with the stops in a square

Look in your book theirs a nice chart there

Rule eight comes up when a word ends in Tau

The Tau gets real nervous ‘cause it isn’t a vowel

And just disappears. That’s the last rule for now, The eight rules!
Philo Tain Hellanikain (8x)

Eight Noun Rules for Biblical Greek – Billy Kangas