A direct object is a person or thing that directly receives (or is affected by) the action of the verb. For example, in “Jesus healed him,” Jesus is the subject and “him” is the direct object. The indirect object is “the person (or thing) who receives the direct object of the verb.” Note that the definition of an indirect object is not that it receives the action of the verb indirectly but that it receives the direct object which receives the action of the verb directly. For example, “Please give me a little water from your jar” (Gen 24:17b). An object of a preposition is the noun that the preposition is linked to to form a prepositional phrase, for example, “in Christ Jesus,” which we saw in Romans 8:1-2.
