γάρ
See also: γαρ
Ancient Greek
Etymology
Pronunciation
- (5th BCE Attic) IPA(key): /ɡár/
- (1st CE Egyptian) IPA(key): /ɡar/
- (4th CE Koine) IPA(key): /ɣar/
- (10th CE Byzantine) IPA(key): /ɣar/
- (15th CE Constantinopolitan) IPA(key): /ɣar/
Conjunction
γᾰ́ρ • (gár)
Usage notes
γᾰ́ρ is a post-positive word, i.e. it is never the first word in a sentence. It is usually the second, but sometimes also the third or fourth.
Descendants
References
- “γάρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1940) A Greek–English Lexicon, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- “γάρ”, in Liddell & Scott (1889) An Intermediate Greek–English Lexicon, New York: Harper & Brothers
- “γάρ”, in Autenrieth, Georg (1891) A Homeric Dictionary for Schools and Colleges, New York: Harper and Brothers
- γάρ in Bailly, Anatole (1935) Le Grand Bailly: Dictionnaire grec-français, Paris: Hachette
- Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek–English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
- γάρ in Cunliffe, Richard J. (1924) A Lexicon of the Homeric Dialect: Expanded Edition, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, published 1963
- γάρ in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (2006–2024)
- “γάρ”, in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- G1063 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
- Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English–Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language[1], London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.