Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /ɣar/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /ɣar/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /ɣaɾ/

Conjunction

γάρ • ‎(gár)

1. for
2. since

Usage notes

Γάρ 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.

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 (© 2006–2016)
• γάρ in Slater, William J. (1969) Lexicon to Pindar, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
• “G1063”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Woodhouse, S. C. (1910) English-Greek Dictionary: A Vocabulary of the Attic Language, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Limited.
  • for idem, page 334.
  • yes idem, page 996.