Here is the reading again. There are five different feminine nouns in this passage (two following patterns we haven’t yet encountered, but signposted by the feminine definite article). What are they?

¹Ἐὰν ταῖς γλώσσαις τῶν ἀνθρώπων λαλῶ καὶ τῶν ἀγγέλων, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, γέγονα χαλκὸς ἠχῶν ἢ κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον.

²καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω προφητείαν καὶ εἰδῶ τὰ μυστήρια πάντα καὶ πᾶσαν τὴν γνῶσιν, καὶ ἐὰν ἔχω πᾶσαν τὴν πίστιν ὥστε ὄρη μεθιστάναι, ἀγάπην δὲ μὴ ἔχω, οὐθέν εἰμι.

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The words are a mixture of masculine, feminine and neuter forms, and they are all words you have learned: select the correct parsing.

ἱεροῦ	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
βιβλία	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
ψυχῆς	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
δοῦλοις	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
ἀδελφάς	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
κόσμῳ	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
γῆν	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
λόγους	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural
ἔργα	gender masculine feminine neuter	case nominative accusative genitive dative	number singular plural

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The following verses are from some parables in the gospels of Luke and Matthew. See how many words you can recognise (or guess) before looking at the English version

Ἄνθρωποι δύο ἀνέβησαν εἰς τὸ ἱερὸν προσεύξασθαι, ὁ εἷς Φαρισαῖος καὶ ὁ ἕτερος
τελώνης.

εἶπεν δὲ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτῷ, Πάτερ, ἥμαρτον εἰς τὸν οὐρανὸν καὶ ἐνώπιόν σου, οὐκέτι εἰμὶ
ἄξιος κληθῆναι υἱός σου.

Πάλιν ὁμοία ἐστὶν ἡ βασιλεία τῶν οὐρανῶν ἀνθρώπῳ ἐμπόρῳ ζητοῦντι καλοὺς μαργαρίτας.

λέγω δὲ ὑμῖν, οὐδὲ Σολομὼν ἐν πάσῃ τῇ δόξῃ αὐτοῦ περιεβάλετο ὡς ἓν τούτων.

English: