Attached below is an interlinear text of the important passage in Ephesians 6 on “The Fully Armor of God.” Below each Greek word, as the New Testament was originally written in the Koine Greek language of that time, are four lines:
- The uninflected Greek word, known as the “lemma”
- The Morphology of the Greek word, as it is inflected on the top line
- A simple English word translation
- The Strongs Number.
Morphology
The morphology of a word is the fullest expression of how the word is used in the sentence as determined by its inflections. (An inflection is ‘adder’ letters that tell us something about how a word is to be understood, such as in English, at the end of the preceding sentence here, the “s” was added to “inflection”–the lemma, for our purposes– to indicate that its usage is as a “plural”).
Strongs Number
James Strong in the late 19th Century created a tool that enabled every New Testament word to be identified and searchable by an index, known as a Strongs Number, which is commonly written with the prefix letter G. What is especially useful today is that doing an online search, such as by Google, using the letter “G” followed by the Strongs Number can, usually on the first page of the search results, provide a link to a site that gives a wealth of information on a fuller definition of the respective word as it may be translated in any given version of the Bible (such as given in Line 3 above) and how and where it is used elsewhere in the Bible and even in other ancient Greek literature.
An example of how to use the below language tools for Ephesians 6:16 concerning the shield of faith against the Enemy’s flaming arrow is given here.
Ephesians 6:10ff (Interlinear text from Logos.com)
