James 3:11 — Word Study
N1904μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
BSAsurely not evermēti theho springpēgē [fountain, source of water] outek of theho sameautos [single, unique] openingopē pours forthbruō△▸ [pour forth, gush out] <the>ho [both] freshglukus [sweet] andkai <the>ho bitter?pikros [bitter]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| μήτι | surely not ever | Particle, interrogative |
| ἡ | the | Article, nominative, singular |
| πηγὴ | spring | Noun, nominative, singular |
| ἐκ | out | Preposition |
| τῆς | of the | Article, genitive, singular |
| αὐτῆς | same | Personal pronoun, genitive, singular |
| ὀπῆς | opening | Noun, genitive, singular |
| βρύει | pours forth | Verb, present, active |
| τὸ | <the> | Article, accusative, singular |
| γλυκὺ | [both] fresh | Adjective, accusative, singular |
| καὶ | and | Conjunction |
| τὸ | <the> | Article, accusative, singular |
| πικρόν; | bitter? | Adjective, accusative, singular |
Every word in the verse. Click a row to open it in the panel on the left.
| BSB | Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? |
| KJV | Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? |
| ASV | Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter? |
| YLT | doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter? |
| WEB | Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water? |
| BBE | Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water? |
Where they part company is πηγὴ — see How Translations Differ.
The sentence is structured around a main question, with a focus on the subject and the source.
8 commentators on this verse
Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them ›
clause
subjectὁ
verbβρύω
The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
1 of 13 occurs nowhere else in the New Testament — a word chosen on purpose.
Bars are logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word in the Greek New Testament, stands 19,867 times, so a linear scale would leave everything else invisible. Click a row to open that word.
Deep Study — James 3:11
Sections marked generated are written from the data on this page rather than by a named author. Everything else — the lexicon entries, the cross references, the manuscript readings, the counts — is quoted from its source unchanged.
Context — The Power of the Tonguegenerated
James 3:11 raises a question about the nature of a spring, using it as a metaphor for speech. The surrounding verses emphasize the inconsistency of blessing and cursing coming from the same mouth, highlighting the importance of integrity in what we say. This metaphor aligns with the broader theme of wisdom and understanding in the chapter, where James contrasts wise speech with unwise speech, urging his readers to reflect on the impact of their words.
Cross References
| Reference | Text (BSB) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | James 3:11 | Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring? |
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 1 reference, hung on the phrase they belong to
The Key Word — πηγὴ, pēgēgenerated
The Greek word πηγή refers to a source of water, such as a spring or fountain. It is a feminine noun indicating a place where water flows, often used metaphorically to signify a source of life or nourishment.
In this context, it symbolizes the origin of speech, suggesting that just as a spring produces water, a person's words flow from their heart or character.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
The verse is translated in the Berean Standard Bible as 'Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?' This wording is echoed in the WEB and YLT.
The KJV and ASV use 'fountain' instead of 'spring', while all translations agree on the contrast between 'sweet' and 'bitter' water, though the BSB and others opt for 'fresh' instead of 'sweet'.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The main verb in this verse is βρύει, pours forth, which governs the entire sentence. It is followed by two noun phrases that serve as the subject and the object, respectively, and a prepositional phrase that describes the source.
The structure emphasizes the relationship between the spring and the quality of water produced, illustrating the rhetorical question's intent to provoke thought about consistency in speech.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
πηγή is used in the Septuagint to translate various Hebrew words for water sources, such as מַעְיָן (spring) and עַ֫יִן (eye). This connection reinforces the idea of a source that yields life-sustaining water, paralleling its use in James.
In the LXX, it often conveys the concept of abundance and provision, similar to the metaphorical use in the New Testament.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
James 3:11 asks if a spring can produce both fresh and salt water. This question highlights the inconsistency of our words, as he discusses how the same mouth can bring both blessings and curses. James encourages us to consider the source of our speech and its impact.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
Fresh water symbolizes good and wholesome speech, while salt water represents harmful or bitter words, emphasizing the inconsistency that can arise from the same source.
James uses the metaphor of a spring to illustrate that just as a spring produces water, our words flow from our hearts, reflecting our true character.
This verse encourages us to be mindful of our words, ensuring that what we say aligns with our values and reflects kindness and truth.
The passage teaches that true wisdom is consistent and leads to good speech, contrasting with the inconsistency of unwise or harmful words.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- In what ways do I see inconsistency in my own speech, and how can I address it?
- How can I ensure that my words reflect the goodness I desire to express?
- What practices can help me cultivate wisdom in my communication with others?
- How does understanding the source of my words change the way I speak?
The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it
Hilary of Arles interprets this verse to discuss the nature of human speech, emphasizing the contrast between sound doctrine and falsehood.
The spring is the heart of man, the flowing stream of water is his speech, and the opening through which it pours is his mouth. The sweet water is sound doctrine, while the bitter water is just the opposite.
Hilary of Arles explains that the spring represents the heart, the flowing stream symbolizes speech, and the opening is the mouth, contrasting sound doctrine with false teachings.
Early Church Fathers on James 3 →Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on James 3:11 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleDoth a fountain send forth at the same place,.... "Or hole"; for at divers places, and at different times, as Pliny (m) observes, it may send forth sweet [water] and bitter: and it is reported (n),
Read John Gill on James 3 →Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryDoth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Fountain - the heart: as the aperture [so opees (G3692), 'place'] of the fountain represents the month.
Read Robert Jamieson on James 3 →Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy BibleOrdinarily and naturally; if any such be, it is looked upon as uncouth and prodigious.
Read Matthew Poole on James 3 →John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter? Ver. 11. Doth a fountain send forth] The fountain, or rather the botch, of sensual and sinful pleasures doth. Sin is a bitter sweet, γλυκυπικρον, the poison of asps, which first tickleth, and then killeth. All creature comforts are dulcis acerbitas, saith one. Amarissima volulptas, saith another, (Tertul.) " Principium dulce est, at finis amoris amarus; Laeta venire Venus, tristis abire solet."
Read John Trapp on James 3 →Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(11) Doth a (or, the) fountain send forth (literally, spurt) at the same place (or, hole, see margin) sweet water and bitter (i.e., fresh water and salt)?—A vivid picture, probably, of the mineral springs abounding in the Jordan valley, near the Dead Sea; with which might be contrasted the clear and sparkling rivulets of the north, fed by the snows of Lebanon. Nature had no confusion in her plans; and thus to pour out curse and blessing from the same lips were unnatural indeed. Or, again—
Read Charles John Ellicott on James 3 →AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the BibleVerse 11. Doth a fountain send forth - sweet water and bitter?] In many things nature is a sure guide to man; but no such inconsistency is found in the natural world as this blessing and cursing in man. No fountain, at the same opening, sends forth sweet water and bitter; no fig tree can bear olive berries; no vine can bear figs; nor can the sea produce salt water and fresh from the same place. These are all contradictions, and indeed impossibilities, in nature. And it is depraved man alone that can act the monstrous part already referred to.
Read AdamClarke on James 3 →CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges11. Doth a fountain] The Greek gives the article, the fountain, as more emphatically generalising the question.send forth at the same place …] Both verb and noun in the Greek are more vivid. Our word spurt or gush, if it could be used transitively, would answer to the former; our mouth, or “source”, or “orifice”, to the latter. The comparison was a natural one in a country like Palestine, where springs more or less salt or sulphureous are not uncommon. Most of those on the eastern slope of the hill-country of Judah and Benjamin are indeed brackish. Comp. the sweetening of the spring which supplied the college of the Sons of the Prophets in 2 Kings, 2 Kings 2:19, and the symbolic healing of…
Read Cambridge on James 3 →Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the BibleDoth a fountain send forth at the same place - Margin, “hole.” The Greek word means “opening, fissure,” such as there is in the earth, or in rocks from which a fountain gushes.
Read Albert Barnes on James 3 →The verse in English, compared — 16 translations, and where they part company
Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.
Modern formal
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
Does a spring send out from the same opening fresh and bitter water?
Can both fresh water and salt water flow from the same spring?
A spring does not pour out fresh water and bitter water from the same opening, does it?
Tyndale line
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
Doth the fountain send forth from the same opening sweet water and bitter?
Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
Doeth a fountaine send forth at one place sweete water and bitter?
Strictly literal
Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?
doth the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
does the fountain out of the same opening pour forth the sweet and the bitter?
Does a spring pour out from its opening both sweet and bitter water?
From the Latin
Doth a fountain send forth, out of the same hole, sweet and bitter water?
Simplified
Does a spring send both sweet and bitter water out of the same opening?
Does the fountain send from the same outlet sweet and bitter water?
Word by word, the decisions they made
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the Nestle 1904 treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The earliest translations — Latin and Syriac
Every translation is an argument about meaning made by someone who had to commit to one. These two were made while the Greek was still a living language, and they are the oldest opinions we have about what this verse says.
Numquid fons de eodem foramine emanat dulcem et amaram aquam ?
Jerome revised the Old Latin against the Greek from AD 382; the Latin west read this text for a thousand years.
ܕܠܡܐ ܡܫܟܚܐ ܕܡܢ ܚܕ ܡܒܘܥܐ ܢܦܩܘܢ ܡܝܐ ܚܠܝܐ ܘܡܪܝܪܐ
The Bible of the Syriac-speaking church, in the language nearest to the Aramaic Jesus spoke.
Shown verse by verse rather than word by word: aligning a Greek word to its Latin or Syriac counterpart automatically would be guesswork, and a wrong alignment is worse than none.
The Greek editions compared — what the manuscripts actually say
Eight printed editions of the Greek New Testament, side by side. Where they agree the wording is settled; where a word is missing from an edition it is marked, so you can see the difference rather than take it on trust.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
The standard critical text of the New Testament.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
The previous edition, still widely cited.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
An independent critical text built from the oldest witnesses then known.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.
μήτι ἡ πηγὴ ἐκ τῆς αὐτῆς ὀπῆς βρύει τὸ γλυκὺ καὶ τὸ πικρόν;
The printed tradition behind the King James Version.
A witness that read differently would show its variant word here, marked.
Word by word, across the editions
Every edition agrees. All 8 printed editions — Nestle-Aland 28, Nestle-Aland 27, SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Tyndale House 2017, Textus Receptus (KJV), Byzantine majority — carry every word of this verse, in the same order, with no difference that any translator would render differently.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Greek New Testament — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.
Lexicons — every word in James 3:11
One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Greek lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.
Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. Imported from the CrossWire SWORD modules — Abbott-Smith, the full Liddell-Scott-Jones, Strong's, Dodson, the Intermediate LSJ, Robinson and Packard on the Greek, Webster and Cawdrey on the English the translators were using. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
The Greek word μήτι is an interrogative particle used to pose questions that expect a negative answer. It is formed from the negation μή and the neuter of τίς. The New Testament uses it in several passages, including Matthew 7:16 and John 4:29, often in contexts of doubt or hesitation.
μή-τι,
interrog. particle,
expecting a negative answer: Mt 7:16 26:22, 25, Mk 4:21 14:19, Lk 6:39, Jo 8:22 18:35, Ac 10:47, II Co 12:18, Ja 3:11; in hesitant questions (v. M, Pr., 170n), μ οὗτός ἐστιν, can this be, Mt 12:23, Jo 4:29; μ. ἄρα, II Co 1:17; on εἰ μήτι (Lk 9:13, cf. Bl., § 65, 6), v.s. εἰ.†
μήτι [so GT WH R (commonly), but μή τε L (exe. 1 Co. vi. 3) Tr (exc. Mt. xxvi. 22, 25; Mk. iv. 21)j, (up and τί), whether at all, whether perchance, an interrogative expecting a negative answer; in a direct question (Germ. doch nicht etwa? [in Eng. generally untranslated: cf. W. § 57,3b.; B. 248 (213)]): Mt. vii. 16; xxvi. 22. 25; Mk. iv. 21; xiv. 19; Lk. vi. 39; Jn. vii. 81 [Β 6]: Vili. 22; xviii. 35; xxi. 5 [here all texts μή re (properly)]; Acts x. 47; 2 Co. xii. 18; Jas. iii. 11 ; μήτι dpa, 2 Co. i. 17; used by one asking doubtfully yet inclining to believe what he asks about (see μήποτε, 3 a.): Mt. xii. 23: Jn pnteye iv. 29. εἶ μήτι, see εἰ, III. 10. μήτιγε (or μήτι ye) see in its place.
μητί. On the translation of μητί in the NT, see Moulton Proleg. p. 170 and Hort ad Jas 34.
μήτι (mēti) — surely not.
Included with: μήτῐς
or μή τις, ὁ, ἡ, neuter μήτῐ, genitive μήτῐνος: (τὶς) old Gr. and Cretan dialect for μηδείς, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect dative singular μηδιμί [Refs] —hence
1. μήτι or μή τι, adverb, with imperative, and infinitive used imperatively, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with optative to express a wish, ὄλοιντο μή τι πάντες [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. after Verbs of fear or doubt, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
3. in direct questions, μή τί σοι δοκῶ ταρβεῖ; do I.. ? (i.e. I do not), [NT+4th c.BC+]
4. μή τί γε let alone, much less, οὐδὲ στρατιώτης οὗτός γε οὐδενός ἐστιν ἄξιος, μή τί γε τῶν ἄλλων ἡγεμών [Refs 4th c.BC+]; later, not to mention, οὐκ οἴδατε ὅτι ἀγγέλους κρινοῦμε; μήτι γε βιωτικά [NT]: with a word between, ὡς.. δώσοντι δίκην, μή τι ποιήσαντί γε [Refs 5th…
μήτι
meti
from 3361 and the neuter of 5100; whether at all:--not (the particle
usually not expressed, except by the form of the question).
see GREEK for 3361
see GREEK for 5100
μήτι
Irg.prt.
if not, unless
Particle-I — Particle · interrogativeparticle — a small word colouring the clause; it does not decline.
PRT-I PaRTicle, disjunctive particle Interrogative
19 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 17 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.
← what comes before
what comes after →
branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path
γέγονε γὰρ πρὸ ἐτῶν δισχιλίων, ἐφʼ ὅσον πλῆθος αἰῶνος οὐδʼ αὐτῶν οἱ ποιηταὶ τὰς γενέσεις τῶν θεῶν, μήτι γε τὰς τῶν ἀνθρώπων πράξεις ἢ τοὺς νόμους ἀνενεγκεῖν ἐτόλμησαν.
μήτι δύνῃ ἰσχυροτέρας ἀποκαλύψεις ὧν ἑώρακας ἰδεῖν;
αφ … … βιας ἐμοῦ ταῦτα πάντα οὐκ ἔγραψα ἐν τῷ πινακιδίῳ … ἐξερχόμενος μήτι δυν … … … … … σαι
κατεχόμενον … ορια τον ζωσ… ον καὶ … οστυ … ου ἐξάκτορα … μητι … ροση … καὶ ἐπὶ τοῦτο αὐτὸ
Φλαουίῳ Φλαουιανῷ … παρὰ Ἀντιοχίας ἰδια … πᾶσι τοῖς ἀδικουμένοις … … ἐπικουρεῖν μήτι γε ἐμοὶ … … νῳ μου νηπίῳ υἱῷ ε … ε … … εἶχον
The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-NSF — Article · nominative · singular · femininenominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
T-NSF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.
1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.
This he calls the preaching of the cross.
2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.
3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.
Th' adorning thee with so much art,
Is but a barb'rous skill.
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
πηγή is a feminine noun meaning a spring or fountain, often used metaphorically to denote a source or supply of something, such as water or blood. It appears in various New Testament contexts, including James 3:11 and John 4:6. The term is derived from a root suggesting the idea of gushing or flowing, and it can also refer to metaphorical sources of emotions or qualities.
πηγή, -ῆς, ἡ,
[in LXX chiefly for עַיִן, also for מָקוֹר, etc.;]
a spring, fountain: Ja 3:11, II Pe 2:17; τ. ὑδάτων, Re 8:10 14:7 16:4; of a well fed by a spring, Jo 4:6; π. τοῦ αἵματος, of a flow of blood, Mk 5:29; metaph., Jo 4:14, Re 7:17 21:6.†
πηγή, -ῆς, ἡ, fr. Hom. down, Sept. chiefly for Py, PW, Wp2; @ fountain, spring: Jas. iii. 11, and Ree. in 12; 2 Pet. ii. 17; ὕδατος ἁλλομένου, Jn. iv. 14; τῶν ὑδάτων, Rey. viii. 10; xiv. 7; xvi. 4; of a well fed by a spring, Jn. iv. 6. ζωῆς πηγαὶ ὑδάτων, Rev. vii. 17; ἡ π. τ. ὕδατος τῆς ζωῆς, Rev. xxi. 6, (on both pass. see in ξωή, p. 274); ἡ π. TOU ἥρω a flow of blood, Mk. v. 29." ahyvupt: 1 aor. ἔπηξα; fr. Hom. down; to make fast, lo fit; to ee together, to build by fastening together : σκηνήν, Heb. viii. 2 [A. V. pitched. Comp.: προσ-πήγνυμι.}
πηγή, “spring”: cf. BGU IV. 1120 (B.c. 5) τὴν] ἐν τῇ ἀντλίᾳ πηγήν, “the spring in the ship's hold,” OG/S 168% (B.c. 116-81) ἡ τοῦ Νείλου πηγὴ ὀνομαζομέϊ νη, and Aristeas 89 πηγῆς ἔσωθεν πολυρρύτου φυσικῶς ἐπιρρεούσης. The
πηγή (pēgē) — flow.
πηγή,
Doric dialect πᾱγά, ἡ, running water, used by [Refs 8th c.BC+] always in plural, streams, πηγαὶ ποταμῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+]
2. metaphorically, of tears, πηγαὶ κλαυμάτων, δακρύων, streams.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also πηγαὶ γάλακτος, βοτρύων, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πόντου πηγαῖς with sea-water, [Refs]; πηγαὶ τροφῆς τῷ γεννωμένῳ, of mother's milk, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. fount, source, τοῦ Νείλου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πηγαὶ ἡλίου the fount of light, i. e. the South, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; πηγαὶ νυκτός the North, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πυρὸς παγαί[Refs 5th c.BC+]; πηγὴ ἀργύρου, of the silver-mines at Laureion, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; τῆς ἀκουούσης π. δι᾽ ὤτων, i.e. the sense of hearing, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἀπὸ μιᾶς ἀρχῆς καὶ π. [Refs 4th…
πηγή
pege
probably from 4078 (through the idea of gushing plumply); a fount
(literally or figuratively), i.e. source or supply (of water, blood,
enjoyment) (not necessarily the original spring):--fountain, well.
see GREEK for 4078
πηγή, ῆς, ἡ
n.f.
a fountain, spring, well
πηγή πηγη, doric παγά, ἡ, mostly in pl. of running waters, streams, Hom., etc.; distinct from κρουνός (the spring or well-head), κρουνὼ δ᾽ ἵκανον καλλιρρόω, ἔνθα δὲ πηγαὶ δοιαὶ ἀναΐσσουσι Il.:—in sg., Aesch.
metaph. streams, of tears, πηγαὶ κλαυμάτων, δακρύων id. Aesch., Soph.; so, πηγαὶ γάλακτος Soph.; πόντου πηγαῖς with sea- water, Eur.; παγαὶ πυρός Pind.
= κρήνη, a fount, source, πηγαὶ ἡλίου the fount of light, i. e. the East, Aesch.:—in sg., πηγὴ ἀργύρου, of the silver-mines at Laureion, id. Aesch.; τῆς ἀκουούσης πηγῆς δι᾽ ὤτων, i. e. the sense of hearing, Soph.
metaph. the fount, source, origin, πηγὴ κακῶν Aesch.; ἡδονῶν, νοσημάτων Plat.
Noun-NSF — Noun · nominative · singular · femininenominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
N-NSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Nominative Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
See FOUNTAIN; WELL.
Spring
(Heb. ‘ain, “the bright open source, the eye of the landscape”). To be carefully distinguished from “well” (q.v.). “Springs” mentioned in Josh. 10:40 (Heb. ‘ashdoth) should rather be “declivities” or “slopes” (R.V.), i.e., the undulating ground lying between the lowlands (the shephelah) and the central range of hills.
12 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 5 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Counted over the 53 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.
καὶ ἔστιν ὑπερουράνιος ἀστήρ, πηγὴ τῶν αἰσθητῶν ἀστέρων, ἣν οὐκ ἂν ἀπὸ σκοποῦ καλέσειεν ἄν τις παναύγειαν, ἀφ’ ἧς ἥλιος καὶ σελήνη καὶ οἱ ἄλλοι πλάνητές τε καὶ ἀπλανεῖς ἀρύτονται, καθ’ ὅσον ἑκάστῳ δύναμις, τὰ πρέποντα φέγγη, τῆς ἀμιγοῦς καὶ καθαρᾶς…
καὶ βοηθεῖν αὐτοῖς δοκιμάσας οὐκ ἀνέμεινεν, ἀλλʼ ἐπειχθεὶς καὶ κατὰ πέμπτην ἐπιπεσὼν νύκτα τοῖς Ἀσσυρίοις περὶ Δάνον, οὕτως γὰρ ἡ ἑτέρα τοῦ Ἰορδάνου προσαγορεύεται πηγή, καὶ φθάσας πρὶν ἐν ὅπλοις γενέσθαι τοὺς μὲν ἐν ταῖς κοίταις ὄντας ἀπέκτεινε…
ὅτι ἀληθῶς βλέπω ἐν ὑμῖν ἐκκεχυμένον ἀπὸ τοῦ πλουσίου τῆς πηγῆς κυρίου πνεῦμα ἐφ̓ ὑμᾶς.
Ἀμμωνίου … ἀμπελῶνος ὄντος ἐν κώμῃ Ψαντανχνούβει τῆς Ἀραβίας τοῦ Λατοπολίτου … ου μέρους πηγῆς ἐξ ὀπτῆς πλίνθου· ὅρια τοῦ ἀμπελῶνος· νότου ἀμπελὼν Τοτοέους τοῦ Ἀμένωτος, βορρᾶ ἀμπελὼν Πιούνσιος
βιβλ … … … … Ἱβιτῶν α ὕδρευμα … … πηγὴ α … … … Μεγχεοῦς … β ὕδρευμα … … … ὑδρευματ
ια ἰνδικτίονος Π … ντου ἀνυδρωμ Φιλ γεφυρ Πηγὴ Βορίνου Πετεχῶν Φ … Ψάιτος Παλῆς
The Greek word ἐκ (transliterated as ek) is a preposition that means 'from' or 'out of,' governing the genitive case. It indicates origin, separation, or motion away from a place, time, or cause. In the New Testament, it is used to denote various relationships, such as source or distinction, and appears in contexts like John 6:31 and Matthew 1:3. Different lexicons highlight its versatility in both literal and metaphorical senses.
ἐκ (ἐξ),
prep. c. gen.,
from out of, from (see Addendum, p. 492).
ἐκ, before a vowel ἐξ,
prep. c. gen.,
of motion outwards, separation from (opp. to εἰς; = Lat. e, ex), from out of, from among, from.
Of Place,
ἐκ, before a vowel ἐξ, a preposition governing the genitive. It denotes as well exit or emission out of, as separation from, something with which there has been close connection ; opp. to the prepositions εἰς into and ἐν in: from out of, out from, forth from, from, (Lat. e, ex), [ οἵ. W. 364, 366 (343) sq.; B. 326 sq. (281)]. It is used I. of Pace, and 1. univ. of the place from which; from a surrounding or enclosing place, from the interior of: ἄρτος, ἄγγελος, φῶς ἐξ οὐρανοῦ, Jn. vi. 81 sq.; Acts ix. 3 [here RG ἀπό]; Gal. 1. 8; ἀνατολή, δύναμις ἐξ ὕψους, Lk. i. 78; xxiv. 49; esp. after verbs of going, fleeing, leading, calling, freeing, removing, releasing, etc. : ἥκειν ἐκ τῆς ᾿Ιουδαίας eis τ. Γαλιλαίαν, Jn. iv. 47; ἐξέρχεσθαι ἔκ τινος out of the body of one (spoken of demons), Mk. i. 25; v. 8 [here L mrg. ἀπό]; vii. 29; of power emanating from the body, Mk. v. 30 [cf. B. 301 (258)…
Read the full entry →ἐκ 190 passages as P Tebt I. 23" (c. B.C. 119 or 114) οὐκ ὀρθῶς κρίνομεν πέπρακταί σοι μὴ ἐκ τῆς ἡμῶν προεδρίας πεφροντικέναι ἀπροσδέητον ἑτέρων γενέσθαι, ‘I consider that you have acted badly in not having been careful that he should be independent of others owing to my superior rank ”’ (Edd. ), 24. 248° (B.c. 117) ἔκ τε τῆς πλείστης προσεδρείας, ‘on account of the prolonged attendance ’’ (Edd.), and P Fay 12} (c. B.C. 103) ἐκ κοινολογ[ς(]α[ς] τ[ἢ]ς συνσταθείσης πρὸς αὐτούς, ‘‘as the result of the colloquy which took place between τ᾿ (Edd.). From this it is an easy transition to the meaning ‘‘ according to”’ or “in accordance with,’’ as in the common legal phrase καθάπερ ἐγ δίκης, ‘‘as if in accordance with a legal decision,’’ z. δ. ‘‘as if a formal decree of the court had been obtained,’’ as in P Eleph 1132 (B.C. 311-0) (= Selections, p- 3), P Ryl 11. 15435 (a.p. 66): cf. P Petr III.…
Read the full entry →ἐκ (ek) — out from.
ἐκ,
before a vowel ἐξ, also
__A ἐξ τῳ ϝοίκῳ [Refs] and less frequently ; ἐγ- in Inscrr. before β γ δ λ μ ; Cretan dialect and Boeotian dialect ἐς [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἐχ frequently in Attic dialect Inscrr. before χ φ θ (and in early Inscrr. before ς, [Refs]:—preposition governing GEN. only (except in [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—radical sense, from out of, frequently also simply, from.
__A.I OF PLACE, the most frequently usage, variously modified:
__A.I.1 of Motion, out of, forth from, ἐκ Πύλου ἐλθὼν τηλόθεν ἐξ ἀπίης γαίης [Refs 8th c.BC+] to strike with a spear in the hand, opposed to ἀντιτοξεύειν or ἀκοντίζειν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἐκ χρυσῶν φιαλῶν πίνειν[Refs 5th c.BC+]
ἐκ
ek
or ex ex
a primary preposition denoting origin (the point whence action or
motion proceeds), from, out (of place, time, or cause; literal or
figurative; direct or remote):--after, among, X are, at,
betwixt(-yond), by (the means of), exceedingly, (+ abundantly above),
for(- th), from (among, forth, up), + grudgingly, + heartily, X
heavenly, X hereby, + very highly, in, ...ly, (because, by reason) of,
off (from), on, out among (from, of), over, since, X thenceforth,
through,
X unto, X vehemently, with(-out). Often used in composition,
with the same general import; often of completion.
ἐκ, ἐξ
Prep.
from out, out from among, from
ἐκ ek 915x
ἐχ before vowels, with genitive, from, out of, a place, Mt. 2:15; 3:17; of, from, out of, denoting origin or source, Mt. 1:3; 21:19; of, from some material, Mt. 3:9; Rom. 9:21; of, from, among, partitively, Mt. 6:27; 21:31; Mk. 9:17; from, denoting cause, Rev. 8:11; 17:6; means or instrument, Mt. 12:33, 37; by, through, denoting the author or efficient cause, Mt. 1:18; Read the full entry →
ἐκ
ἐξ before a vowel, ἐγ before β γ δ λ μ prep. governing GEN. only, Lat. e, exRadical sense, from out of, opp. to εἰς:
out of, from. c. gen.
OF PLACE:
of Motion, out of, forth from, Hom., etc.: ἐκ θυμοῦ φίλεον I loved her from my heart, with all my heart, Il.
to denote change from one place or condition to another, κακὸν ἐκ κακοῦ one evil from (or after) another, id. Il.; λόγον ἐκ λόγου λέγειν Dem.
to express distinction from a number, ἐκ πόλεων πίσυρες four out of many, Il.
of Position, like ἔξω, outside of, beyond, ἐκ βελέων out of shot, id. Il.; ἐκ καπνοῦ out of the smoke, Od.
with Verbs of Rest, ἐκ ποταμοῦ χρόα νίζετο washed his body with water from the river, id. Od.:—with Verbs signifying to hang or fasten, ἐκ πασσαλόφι κρέμασεν φόρμιγγα he hung his lyre from (i. e. on) the peg, id.…
Prep — Prepositionpreposition — its sense depends on the case of the word it governs.
PREP PREPosition
933 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 26 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-GSF — Article · genitive · singular · femininegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
T-GSF Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
ov:
(1) In Anglo-Saxon, had the meaning "from," "away from" (as the strengthened form "off" has still), and was not used for genitive or possessive relations, these being expressed by special case-forms. In the Norman period, however, "of" was taken to represent the French de (a use well developed by the time of Chaucer), and in the Elizabethan period both senses of "of" were in common use. But after about 1600 the later force of the word became predominant, and in the earlier sense (which is now practically obsolete) it was replaced by other prepositions. In consequence the King James Version (and in some cases the Revised Version (British and American)) contains many uses of "of" that are no longer familiar--most of them, to be sure, causing no difficulty, but there still being a few responsible for real obscurities.
OF, preposition ov. [Gr.]
1. From or out of; proceeding from, as the cause, source, means, author or agent bestowing.
I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered to you. 1 Corinthians 11:1.
For it was of the Lord to harden their hearts. Joshua 11:1.
It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed.
Lamentations 3:1.
The whole disposing thereof is of the Lord. Proverbs 16:1.
Go, inquire of the Lord for me. 2 Chronicles 34:2.
That holy thing that shall be born of thee. Luke 1:1.
Hence of is the sign of the genitive case, the case that denotes production; as the son of man, the son proceeding from man, produced from man. This is the primary sense, although we now say, produced by man. 'Part of these were slain; ' that is, a number separate, for part denotes a division; the sense then is, a number from or out of the whole were slain. So also, 'some of these were slain; ' that is…
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
αὐτός is a pronoun meaning 'self' or 'the same,' used to emphasize distinction or opposition. It can function as a reflexive pronoun and appears frequently in the New Testament, often in contexts that highlight contrast or identity, such as in Luke 5:37 and John 2:25. The entries indicate that it can also be used in various grammatical constructions, including with articles to denote sameness.
αὐτός, -ή, -ό,
determinative pron., in late Gk. much more freq. than in cl. (WM, 178 f.; Jannaris, HGG, §1399).
Emphatic (so always in nom. exc. when preceded by the art., v. infr., iii);
self (ipse), expressing opposition, distinction, exclusion, etc., αὐ. ἐκχυθήσεται, Lk 5:37; αὐ. ἐγινώσκεν, Jo 2:25; αὐ. ὑμεῖς, Jo 3:28; καὶ αὐ. ἐγώ, Ro 15:14; αὐ. Ἰησοῦς, Jo 2:24; αὐ. καὶ οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ, Mk 2:25; ὑμεῖς αὐ., Mk 6:31; esp. (as freq in cl.) αὐ. ὁ, Mt 3:4, Mk 6:17, Jo 16:27, I Th 3:11, al.; in late Gk., sometimes…
αὐτός, -7, -d, pron. (“derived from the particle αὖ with the added force of a demonstrative pronoun. In itself it signifies nothing more than again, applied to what has either been previously mentioned or, when the whole discourse is looked at, must necessarily be .upplied.” Klotz ad Devar. ii. p. 219; [see Vaniéek p. 268]). It is used by the bibl. writ. both of the O. T. and of the N. T. far more frequently than the other pronouns; and in this very frequent and almost inordinate use of it, they deviate greatly from prof. auth.; cf. B. § 127, 9. [On classic usage ef. Hermann, Opusce. i. 308 sqq., of which dissertation a summary is given in his edition of Viger pp- 732-736.] I. self, as used (in all persons, genders, numbers) to distinguish a person or thing from or contrast it with another, or to give him (it) emphatic prominence. ik When used to express Opposition or Distinction, it is…
Read the full entry →αὐτός. The weakening of the old distinction between αὐτὸς 6 and ὁ αὐτός, especially in Luke, is noted in Proleg. p. 91, and paralleled from Hellenistic. We may add (cf. Linleitung p. 145f.) Sy// 8071 (ii/A.D.) αὐταῖς ταῖς ἡμέραις, where Dittenberger remarks ‘‘expectaveris ταῖς αὐταῖς," OG/S 383! (Antiochus of Commagene, i/8.c.) τὴν αὐτήν τε κρίσιν, for which Ditt. desiderates ταύτην τὴν κρίσιν, P Iib I. 30° (B.c. 265) αὐτὸς Ὧρος “the said H.,’’ P Lille I. 238 (B.C, 221) οὗ μ[ισ]θωτὴς Ἡρώδ[ης] ὁ αὐτός “ce méme L.,”’ P Oxy VI. 892% (A.D. 338) τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως, 26. VIII. 1105 (A.D. 254) τοῦ αὐτοῦ ἀμφοδογραμματέως “the said a.’’: all these seem to be practically identical, with αὐτός differing little from ἐκεῖνος. The combination αὐτὸ τοῦτο may be illustrated by P Grenf I. 114 (literary, ii/B.c.) “ for this reason ” (Ed.) as in 2 Pet 1°, P Ryl 11. 77°9 (a.p. 192) καὶ αὐτὰ ταῦτα ἀσφαλίσομαι…
Read the full entry →αὐτός (autos) — it/s/he.
αὐτός
(Cretan dialect ἀϝτός [Refs] (also αὐτόν[Refs], reflexive pronoun, self:—in oblique cases used for the personal pronoun, him, her, it:—with Article, ὁ αὐτός, ἡ αὐτή, τὸ αὐτό (also ταὐτόν), etc., the very one, the same.
I. self, myself, thyself, etc., accusative to the person of the Verb: frequently joined with ἐγώ, σύ, etc. (see. below 10),
I.1. one's true self, the soul, not the body, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; reversely, body, not soul, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; oneself, as opposed to others who are less prominent, as king to subject, [Refs]; man to wife and children, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; warrior to horses, [Refs 8th c.BC+], or to weapons, [Refs]; shepherd to herd, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; seamen to ships, [Refs]: generally, whole to parts,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, the Master, as in the [Refs 4th c.BC+]…
αὐτός
autos
from the particle au (perhaps akin to the base of 109 through the idea
of a baffling wind) (backward); the reflexive pronoun self, used
(alone or in the comparative 1438) of the third person , and (with the
proper personal pronoun) of the other persons:--her, it(-self), one,
the other, (mine) own, said, (self-), the) same, ((him-, my-, thy-
)self, (your-)selves, she, that, their(-s), them(-selves), there(-at,
- by, -in, -into, -of, -on, -with), they, (these) things, this (man),
those, together, very, which. Compare 848.
see GREEK for 109
see GREEK for 1438
see GREEK for 848
αὐτός, αὐτή, αὐτό
Pers.pr.
he, she, it, they, them, same
αὐτός autos 5x
self, very; alone, Mk. 6:31; 2 Cor. 12:13; of one’s self, of one’s own motion, Jn. 16:27; used also in the oblique cases independently as a personal pron. of the third person; ὁ αὐτός, the same; unchangeable, Heb. 1:12; κατὰ τὸ αὐτό, at the same time, together, Acts 14:1; ἐπὶ τὸ αὐτό, in one and the same place, Mt. 22:34; at the same time, together, Acts 3:1
αὐτός self, Lat. ipse:— in the oblique cases simply for the personal Pron., him, her, it:— with the Artic. ὁ αὐτός, ἡ αὐτή, τὸ αὐτό (or ταὐτόν), etc., the very one, the same.
self, myself, thyself, etc., acc. to the person of the Verb., Hom., etc.:
oneself, one's true self, the soul, not the body, Od.; or opp. to others, as king to subjects, parent to children, man to wife, etc., Hom.; hence absol. for the master, τίς οὗτος;—Αὐτός, i. e. Socrates, Ar.; similarly in neut. αὐτὸ δείξει the result will shew, Eur.
of oneself, of one's own accord, Lat. sponte, Hom., Soph.
by oneself, alone, αὐτός περ ἐών although alone, Il.; αὐτοί ἐσμεν we are by ourselves, i. e. among friends, Ar.
in Plat., τὸ δίκαιον αὐτό right in itself, the idea of right, etc.; cf. αὐτοάνθρωπος.
Pron-GSF — Personal pronoun · genitive · singular · femininegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
P-GSF Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
5,861 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 92 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 5,561 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.
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Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
περὶ τοῦ γένους Ἀδάμου καὶ τῶν ἀπ' αὐτοῦ δέκα γενεῶν τῶν μέχρι τοῦ κατακλυσμοῦ.
πεπεισμένος οὖν τοῦτο καὶ συνειδὼς ἐμαυτῷ, ὅτι ἐν ὑμῖν λαλήσας πολλὰ ἐπίσταμαι, ὅτι ἐμοὶ συνώδευσεν ἐν ὁδῷ δικαιοσύνης κύριος, καὶ πάντως ἀναγκάζομαι κἀγὼ εἰς τοῦτο, ἀγαπᾶν ὑμᾶς ὑπὲρ τὴν ψυχήν μου, ὅτι μεγάλη πίστις καὶ ἀγάπη ἐγκατοικεῖ ἐν ὑμῖν ἐπ’…
Πακοίβιος ἱερεὺς Σούχου καὶ Ἀφροδίτης ὡς ἐτῶν μ εὐμεγέθης μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν τὴν ὑπάρχουσαν αὐτῷ μερίδα γῆς σιτοφόρου ἐν τῷ περὶ Παθῦρειν πεδίωι σφραγίδων τεσσάρων , ἣν καὶ αὐτὸς
1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος
ὡς ἐτῶν νε μέσος ἢ ἐλάσσων μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν ὑπόσκνιφος, καὶ Πετεαρσοῆρις Σχώτου τῶν αὐτῶν ἱερέων ὡς ἐτῶν ν μέσος ἢ ἐλασσων μελίχρως μακροπρόσωπος εὐθύριν ὑπόσκνιφος, ἀπὸ τοῦ ὑπάρχοντος
ὀπή is a feminine noun meaning an opening or hole. It can refer to various types of openings, such as a crevice, cave, or even a hole in a roof. The New Testament uses it in James 3:11 and Hebrews 11:38, where it denotes openings in a metaphorical sense. The lexicons agree on its general meaning but provide different contexts for its use.
ὀπή, -ῆς, ἡ, (perh. fr. ὄψ᾽ [root dm (see ὁράω) ; ef. Curtius § 627]), prop. through which one can see (Pollux | 2, 53 p. 179] ὀπή, δ ἧς ἔστιν ἰδεῖν, cf. Germ. Luke, Loch [2]}, an opening, aperture, (used of a window, Cant. v. 4): of fissures in the earth, Jas. iii. 11 (Ex. xxxiii. 22); of caves in rocks or mountains, Heb. xi. 38 [here R. V. holes}; Obad. 3. (Of various other kinds of holes and openings, in Arstph., Aristot., al.)
ῥοπή occurs as a v./. for ῥιπή, “ἃ moment,” in 1 Cor 1552 D*EFG 67**. For the original meaning, ‘‘a turn of the scale,” as in Sap 1812, cf. P Par 63% (B.c. 165) (as read P Petr III. p. 24) συμβαλεῖται ῥοπὴν eis τὸ προκίμενον, “it would turn the scale in favour of the matter in hand” (Mahaffy), and P Tebt I. 2779 (cited s.v. ἐνθυμέομαι). See also Aristeas 90 ῥοπῇ καὶ νεύματι, ‘momento temporis et ad nutum,” Vett. Val. p. 3011 at στιγμαὶ ἢ poral τῶν ὡρῶν, and Herodas VII. 33 with Headlam’s note. “Ῥοῦφος. For the probable identification of the Ῥοῦφος of Rom 1678 with the Ῥοῦφος of Mk 15%, see SH p. 426f. The name is very common: see e.g. P Hamb I. 29° (A.D. 89), and the reff. in Preisigke Mamenbuch s.v. OZ? ῥύμη. ͵ r For this word in its late Greek sense ‘‘ street,” ‘lane, which it has in its four occurrences in the NT (Mt 65, e , pvopac Lk 1421, Ac 944, 1219), cf. P Par 5126 (B.c. 159) (=…
Read the full entry →ὀπή (opē) — hole.
ὀπή, ἡ,
opening, hole, ὀπὰς γὰρ εἶχεν οὐκ ὀλίγας [τὸ τριβώνιον] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; a mouse's hole, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of holes in the earth, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; in a door, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; in a rock, [LXX]; of an orifice in the body, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]
2. hole in the roof, serving as a chimney, ={κάπνη},{καπνοδόκη}, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
II. plural, in Architecture texts, holes in the frieze left to receive the beam-ends, [Refs 1st c.BC+]; later, of windows, lights in doors, αἱ ὀ. τῶν τοίχων [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. (ὄψομαι, ὄπωπα) sight, τοὶ μήτ᾽ ἀκουὰν μήτ᾽ ὀπὰν πεπαμένοι [Refs 3rd c.BC+]
ὀπή
ope
probably from 3700; a hole (as if for light), i.e. cavern; by analogy,
a spring (of water):--cave, place.
see GREEK for 3700
ὀπή, ῆς, ἡ
n.f.
a crevice, cave
ὀπή opē 2x
a hole; a hole, vent, opening, Jas. 3:11; a hole, cavern, Heb. 11:38*
ὀπή ὀπη, ἡ,
an opening, hole, Ar.
a hole in the roof, serving as a chimney, id. Ar.
Noun-GSF — Noun · genitive · singular · femininegenitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked singular feminine.
N-GSF Part of Speech: Noun Case: Genitive Number: Singular Gender: Feminine
2 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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ὁ μὲν τοίνυν ἄνευ τέχνης ἱππικῆς ἐπιβεβηκὼς λέγεται μὲν εἰκότως ἀναβάτης, ἐκδέδωκε δὲ ἑαυτὸν ἀλόγῳ καὶ σκιρτητικῷ θρέμματι, ὥσθ’ ὅπῃ ἂν ἐκεῖνο χωρῇ | ’κεῖσε πάντως ἀναγκαῖον φέρεσθαι καὶ μὴ προϊδόμενον χάσμα γῆς ἢ βαθύν τινα βόθρον ὑπὸ τῆς ἐν τῷ…
εἰ δʼ ἐμπλησθεὶς τῆς ἐπιθυμίας ὑπερηφανεύσειεν αὐτὴν γαμετὴν ἔχειν, μηκέτʼ ἐξουσίαν ἐχέτω καταδουλοῦν αὐτήν, ἀλλʼ ὅπη βούλεται χωρεῖν ἀπίτω τοῦτο ἐλεύθερον ἔχουσα.
οπάις Ψενταψάεις εἰς Φαμενὼτ κζ πρ δραχμὰς τριάκοντα τρεῖς τετρώβολον, γίνονται δραχμαὶ λγ τετρώβολον. ἔτους
1 … ων … εἰληφέναι … τὰ … ἅπερ ὁπη… καταλογείου οὐ … διὰ τὸ ἐντεῦθεν εὐδοκεῖν με τῇ ἐσομένῃ δημοσιώσει
ωνω … … νευσεν … αξιωσι κατὰ τοὺς νόμους … … ειτω … οπαις … ναφοβ … νοσο … … … νεμ … … αλέλειπται τῶν δια
βρύω is a verb meaning to swell or gush forth, often used in contexts related to plants or water. It can describe the earth producing vegetation or springs bursting with water, as seen in James 3:11. The word is primarily built from the idea of fullness and abundance, with various usages in classical literature and the New Testament.
* βρύω, poët., late prose and vernac.,
to be full to bursting;
of the earth producing vegetation.
Of plants putting forth buds.
Of springs, to gush with water: Ja 3:11.†
βρύω (bruō) — to pour.
βρύω [ῠ],
mostly present: imperfect, [Refs 6th c.BC+]: aorist participle βρύσας [Refs 6th c.AD+]:—to be full to bursting:
1. with dative, swell or teem with, especially of plants, ἔρνος.. βρύει ἄνθεϊ λευκῷ swells with white bloom, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἰούλῳ, θριξί, κόμαις, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of men, β. δόξᾳ [Refs 5th c.BC+]
2. with genitive, to be full of, χῶρος.. βρύων δάφνης ἐλαίας ἀμπέλου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; στεφάνων δόμος ἔβρυεν probable reading in [Refs 6th c.BC+]
3. absolutely, abound, grow luxuriantly, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the earth, teem with produce, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; of water, burst forth, ὕδωρ βρύσαν ἐξ ὑπονόμων [Refs 6th c.AD+]
βρύω
bruo
a primary verb; to swell out, i.e. (by implication) to gush:--send
forth.
βρύω
v.
I cause to gush forth, send forth
βρύω bryō 1x
pr. to be full, to swell with anything; to emit, send forth, Jas. 3:11*
βρύω mostly in pres. to be full to bursting:
c. dat. to swell or teem with, βρύει ἄνθεϊ teems with bloom, Il.:—metaph., βρύων μελίτταις καὶ προβάτοις Ar.; of men, θράσει βρύων Aesch.
c. gen. to be full of, βρύων δάφνης, ἐλαίας, ἀμπέλου Soph.: metaph., νόσου βρ. Aesch.
absol. to abound, grow luxuriantly, Soph.: of the earth, to teem with produce, Xen.
c. acc. cogn. to send forth water, NTest. (Akin to βλύω, βλύζω, and perh. to φλύω.）
Verb-PAI-3S — Verb · present · active · indicative · third person · singularpresent active indicative — an action in progress.
V-PAI-3S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: third Number: Singular
forth: "Forth," adverb (from "for"), signifies movement
(1) forward,
(2) out of,
(3) beyond a certain boundary.
In a few instances in the Old Testament it is the translation of the preposition `al, properly "above," "upon" (2Ki 11:15; 2Ch 23:14; Am 7:17 the King James Version), and of chuts, "without" (Ge 39:13; Jud 19:25). "Forth" is often used as an expletive of various verbs, as "break (forth)," "bring (forth)," "call (forth)," etc. In the Gospel of John it is the translation of exo, "without," as "Lazarus, come forth" (11:43; so 15:6; 19:4 the King James Version…
1 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 1 different way. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-ASN — Article · accusative · singular · neuteraccusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
T-ASN Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter
THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.
1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.
This he calls the preaching of the cross.
2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.
3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.
Th' adorning thee with so much art,
Is but a barb'rous skill.
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
The Greek word γλυκύς (i.e., *glykys*) means 'sweet' and can refer to taste, smell, or metaphorically to something delightful. It appears in the New Testament, notably in James and Revelation, contrasting with bitter or salty. The word can also describe people affectionately, though it may have negative connotations in some contexts, such as implying simplicity or silliness.
γλυκύς, -εἴα, τύ, sweet: Jas. iii. 11 (opp. to πικρόν); 12 (opp. to ἁλυκόν); Rey. x. 9, [10]. [From Hom. down.]
γλυκύς. The neuter γλυκύ could denote some kind of sweet wine. λεάνας διεὶς γλυκεῖ, ‘soften by diluting with raisin wine” (Edd.) ; ef. 2. VIII. 1142? (late iii/.D.) γλ]ύκιον ῥοιτικόν. ‘pomegranate wine ” (Ed.), and P Lond 23918 (c. A.D. 346) (ΞΞ 11. p. 298) γλυκοιδίων ὀμφακηρά (see note). BGU IV. 1118!® (B.c. 22) and 11201® (B.C. 5) have πράσον yAuKéws. 7b. 11. 424% (ii/iii A.D.) ἀλλὰ πάντοτε τὰ τῶν γονέων γλυγύτερά (-Ξ γλυκ.) ἐστιν. The rest of our papyrus citations are in superlative, which is very common as a term of affection. Thus P Oxy I. 331-18 (late ii/a.p.) κλέος σοι ἐστὶν ὑπὲρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης σου πατρίδος τελευτῆσαι, 27). VI. 907° (A.D. 276) τέκνα μου γλυκύτατα, 70, 935° (ili/A.D.) ἄσπασαι πολλὰ τὸν γλυκύτατον ἀδελφὸν ᾿Αρποκρατίωνα, P Giss I. 22° (early ii/A.D.) εὔχομαι. . . τὴν [γλυκυ]τάτην cov ὄψιν προσκυνῆσαι, and from the inscriptions OG/S 526: τὴν γλυκυτάτην καὶ σεμνοτάτην…
Read the full entry →γλυκύς (glukus) — sweet.
γλῠκύς, εῖα
(-ῆα[Refs 3rd c.BC+], sweet to the taste or smell, νέκταρ [Refs 8th c.BC+]; opposed to ὀξύς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to δριμύς, [Refs 8th c.BC+], pleasant, delightful, ἵμερος, ὕπνος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; γλυκύ [ἐστι], with infinitive, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
__b of water, sweet, fresh, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; opposed to πικρός, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to ἁλμυρός, [Refs 4th c.BC+]
2. after [Refs 8th c.BC+], of persons, sweet, dear, γλυκεῖα (variant{-ῆα}) μᾶτερ [Refs 7th c.BC+]: with infinitive, γ. φρὴν συμπόταισιν ὁμιλεῖν [Refs 5th c.BC+], etc.; also ὑπὲρ τῆς γλυκυτάτης πατρίδος τελευτῆσαι [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; ὦ γλυκύτατε my dear fellow, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; sometimes in bad sense, simple, silly, ὡς γ. εἶ! [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also applied κατ᾽ ἀντίφρασιν to a swine, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; γλυκὺ…
γλυκύς
glukus
of uncertain affinity; sweet (i.e. not bitter nor salt):--sweet,
fresh.
γλυκύς, εῖα, ύ
Adj
sweet
γλυκύς glykys 4x
sweet, Jas. 3:11-12; Rev. 10:9, 10*
γλυκύς sweet, Il., etc.:—metaph. sweet, delightful, Hom., etc.:— γλυκύ ἐστι c. inf., Aesch., etc.
of water, sweet, fresh, opp. to πικρός, Hdt.
after Hom., of persons, sweet, dear, Soph.; ὦ γλυκύτατε my dear fellow, Ar.:—sometimes in bad sense, simple, silly, ὡς γλυκὺς εἶ! Plat.
Adj-ASN — Adjective · accusative · singular · neuteraccusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
A-ASN Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter
Adj.:
The translation of hadhash, "new," "fresh" (Job 29:20, "My glory is fresh in me"); of leshadh, "sap," "moisture" (Nu 11:8, of the manna, "as the taste of fresh oil," the Revised Version, margin "cakes baked with oil"); of ra`anan, "to be fresh and green" (Ps 92:10, "fresh oil"); of glukus, "sweet" (Jas 3:12, "salt water and fresh," the Revised Version (British and American) "sweet"). Fresher is the translation of rutaphash, "to become fresh" (Job 33:25; "His flesh shall be fresher than a child's").
4 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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νυνὶ δὲ καὶ ἀντιφιλονεικεῖ μοι ἡ τροπή, καὶ πολλάκις βουλόμενος καθῆκόν τι νοῆσαι ἐπαντλοῦμαι ταῖς παρὰ τὸ καθῆκον ἐπιρροίαις, καὶ ἔμπαλιν ἔννοιάν τινος λαμβάνων αἰσχροῦ ποτίμοις ἐννοίαις ἀπερρυψάμην ἐκεῖνο, θεοῦ τῇ ἑαυτοῦ χάριτι γλυκὺ νᾶμα ἀντὶ…
ἦν δὲ τοιοῦτος μὲν Αἰγυπτίοις, Ἑβραίοις δὲ γλυκὺς καὶ πότιμος καὶ μηδὲν τοῦ κατὰ φύσιν παρηλλαγμένος.
ἐὰν δὲ εἰς τὸ μέλι μὴ βληθῇ τὸ ἀψίνθιον, γλυκὺ εὑρίσκεται τὸ μέλι καὶ εὔχρηστον γίνεται τῷ δεσπότῃ αὐτοῦ.
ημ … ὄγδοον … γλυκὺ ἥμισυ … ῥόας κεράμιον α κοφίνους δ σφυρίδος πλήρους ἀπώρας σφυρίδιον μικρόν φοινίκων
μοι. πότε δεῖ αὐτὰ κοπῆναι κοπῆναι ἵνα αἱ ἄμπελοι μὴ σκιάζωνται, πέμψον μοι ἐνκεφάλιον γλυκὺ ἐπεὶ ἀσθενέστερός εἰμι. ἔρρωσο Θὼθ ιβ. γράψον δέ μοι καὶ πόσα κτήνη Πάπου ἔργασται
τὴν οἰκίαν σε ἐπανιέναι· κατὰ γὰρ τὸν ἀρχαῖον λόγον εἰς ὄμματʼ εὔνου ἀνδρὸς ἐμβλέπειν γλυκύ· τοῦ δὲ πατρῴου ἡμῶν θεοῦ τρισμεγίστου Ἑρμοῦ ὃς παρίσταταί σοι πανταχοῦ συναραμένου πρὸς τὴν
καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.
καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…
Read the full entry →και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…
Read the full entry →καί (kai) — and.
καί,
conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,
__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,
__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]
καί
kai
apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also
a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in
connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,
also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,
yet.
καί
Cj.
and, even, also, namely
καί kai 9x
(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4
Conj — Conjunctionconjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle
9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν
1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν
The definite article — the commonest word in the Greek New Testament at 19,867 occurrences. Greek uses it more freely than English does and can drop it deliberately, so its presence and its absence both carry weight for a translator; but no single occurrence carries a message of its own. Here it simply gathers “the things” into one definite bundle.
ὁ, ἡ, τό,
the prepositive article (ἄρθρον προτακτικόν), originally a demonstr. pron. (so usually in Hom.), in general corresponding to the Eng. definite article.
As demonstr. pron.
As freq. in Hom., absol., he (she, it), his (etc.): Ac 17:28 (quoted from the poet Aratus).
ὁ 435 ὁ tives of quantity, ὅλος, πᾶς, πολύς, see each in its own place. d. What has been said concerning adjectives holds true also of all other limitations added to substantives, as ἡ κατ᾽ ἐκλογὴν πρόθεσις, Ro. ix. 11; ἡ παρ᾽ ἐμοῦ διαθήκη, Ro. xi. 27; 6 λόγος 6 τοῦ σταυροῦ, 1 Co. i. 18; ἡ εἰς Χριστὸν πίστις, Col. ii. 5; on the other hand, ἡ πίστις ὑμῶν ἡ πρὸς τὸν θεόν, 1 Th. i. 8; τῆς διακονίας τῆς εἰς τοὺς ἁγίους, 2 Co. viii. 4; see many other exx. of each usage in W. 131 (124) sqq.; [B. 91 (80) sqq.]. e. The noun has the article before it when a demonstrative pronoun (υὗτος, ἐκεῖνος) belonging to it either precedes or follows [W. § 18, 4; B. § 127, 29-31]; as, ὁ ἄνθρωπος οὗτος, Jn. ix. 24 [οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρ. 1, Tr mrg. WH); Acts vi. 13; xxii. 26; ὁ λαὸς οὗτος, Mt. xv. 8; 6 vids σου οὗτος, Lk. xv. 30; plur. Lk. xxiv. 17, and numberless other exx.; οὗτος 6 ἄνθρωπος, Lk. xiv. 30; οὗτος ὁ…
Read the full entry →ὃ, ἡ τό. (1) Apart from connexion with μέν or δέ (see below) the demonstrative use of the art. in the NT is confined to a poetical quotation Ac 1778, but it is not uncommon in the papyri, e.g. P Par 45® (B.C. 153) (= Witkowski®, p. 85) τὰ (for ἃ) πράσεις (Δ πράσσεις), P Oxy VIII. 1160! (iii/iv A.D.) Ta (for ἃ) σεσύλληχα (for συνείληχα) δὲ κέρμα {ταν τηρῶ αὐτὰ εἰς τὴν δίκην, “1 am keeping for the trial the money that I have collected” (Ed.). For the distributive Opéev.. - 6 8€, as in 1 Cor7’, cf. P Lond 535 (B.c. 161) (=I. p. 19, U.P.Z. i. p. 239) kal τὰ μὲν ἡμῶν ἐληφότων εἰς τὴν γινομένην ἡμῖν συντάξειν, τὰ δ᾽ ἔτι διὰ τὴν τῶν ὑποτεταγμένων {(.. ... > παρελκομένων. (2) The use of the art. as a relative, of which there is no trace in the NT, may again be illustrated by the following papyrus citations from ¢c. A.D. 346—P Lond 414® (= II. Ῥ. 292) γεινῴσκιν oe θέλω περὶ τοῦ βρεουίου…
Read the full entry →ὁ (ho) — the/this/who.
ὁ,
ἡ, τό, is, when thus written,
__A demonstrative Pronoun.
__B in Attic dialect, definite or prepositive Article.
__C in Epic dialect, the so-called postpositive Article, = relative Pronoun, ὅς, ἥ, ὅ.—The nominative masculine and feminine singular and plural, ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ, have no accent in codices and most printed books, except when used as the relative; but ὁ, ἡ, οἱ, αἱ differ only in writing from ὃ, ἣ, οἳ, α; the nominative forms of the article are said by Hdn.Gr.1.474 to be oxytone, and by [Refs 2nd c.AD+] in Aeolic dialect accusative to [Refs 8th c.BC+] genitive and dative dual τοῖιν [Refs 8th c.BC+]— In Doric dialect and all other dialects except Attic dialect and Ionic dialect the feminine forms preserve the old ᾱ instead of changing it to η, hence Doric dialect etc. ἁ, τάν, τᾶ; the genitive plural τάων contracts in many dialects to τᾶ; the genitive…
ὁ ἡ τό
ho
he hay, and the neuter
to to
in all their inflections; the definite article; the (sometimes to be
supplied, at others omitted, in English idiom):--the, this, that, one,
he, she, it, etc.
ὁ, ἡ, τό
Article
the
ὁ ho 19x
the prepositive article, answering, to a considerable extent, to the English definite article; but, for the principle and facts of its usage, consult a grammar; ὁ μὲν ... ὁ δέ, the one ... the other, Phil. 1:16, 17; Heb. 7:5, 6, 20, 21, 23, 24; pl. some ... others, Mt. 13:23; 22:5, 6; ὁ δέ, but he, Mt. 4:4; 12:48; οἱ δέ, but others, Mt. 28:17; used, in a poetic quotation, for a personal pronoun, Acts 17:28
ὁ the, that
ὁ, ἡ, τό, is
demonstr. Pronoun.
the definite Article.
in epic, the relative Pronoun, when it is written with the accent ὅ, ἥ, τό ῀ ὅς, ἥ, ὅ. Besides the common forms, note epic gen. sg. τοῖο for τοῦ; pl. nom. τοί, ταί; gen. fem. τάων [α^], dat. τοῖσι, τῇς and τῇσι; dual gen, and dat. τοῖιν:— in Trag. we find τοὶ μέν . . , τοὶ δέ . . , for οἱ μέν . . , οἱ δέ . . ; dat. pl. also τοῖσι, ταῖσι: the dual has commonly but one gender, τώ for τά, τοῖν for ταῖν.
DEMONSTR. PRONOUN:
joined with a Subst., not as the Art., but like Lat. ille, ὁ Τυδείδης Tydeus's famous son, Il.; Νέστωρ ὁ γέρων Nestor— that aged man, id. Il.; τιμῆς τῆς Πριάμου for honour, namely that of Priam, id. Il.
Art-ASN — Article · accusative · singular · neuteraccusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
T-ASN Part of Speech: definite arTicle Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter
THE, an adjective or definitive adjective.
1. This adjective is used as a definitive, that is, before nouns which are specific or understood; or it is used to limit their signification to a specific thing or things, or to describe them; as the laws of the twelve tables. the independent tribunals of justice in our country, are the security or private rights, and the best bulwark against arbitrary power. the sun is the source of light and heat.
This he calls the preaching of the cross.
2. the is also used rhetorically before a noun in the singular number, to denote a species by way of distinction; a single thing representing the whole. the fig tree putteth forth her green figs; the almond tree shall flourish; the grasshopper shall be a burden.
3. In poetry, the sometimes loses the final vowel before another vowel.
Th' adorning thee with so much art,
Is but a barb'rous skill.
20,685 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 83 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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40 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →
Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.
ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.
Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.
r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.
βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν
The Greek word πικρός (pikros) means 'bitter' and is derived from the idea of sharpness or piercing. It describes something that is sharp to the senses, particularly in taste, and can also refer to harshness or cruelty in a metaphorical sense. The New Testament uses it in James 3:11 to contrast with sweetness. There is some variation in how lexicons describe its metaphorical uses, particularly regarding emotional states.
πικρός, -ά, -όν
(poët. in cl.),
[in LXX chiefly for מַר;]
sharp, pointed.
sharp to the senses; of taste, bitter: opp. to γλυκύ, Ja 3:11; metaph., harsh, bitter: Ja 3:14.
πικρός, -d, -dv, [ ἔτ. τ. meaning ‘to cut,” ‘prick’; Vaniéek 534; Curtius §100; Fick i. 145], fr. Hom. down, Sept. for 13; bitter: prop. Jas. iii. 11 (opp. to τὸ γλυκύ); metaph. harsh, virulent, Jas. iii. 14.
πικρός, “bitter,” (1) literally: P Oxy VIII. 1088° (medical receipt—early i/A.D.) καρύων πικρῶ(ν), (2) metaphorically : P Par 63121 (B.c. 164) (=P Petr III. p. 28) τὸ... δοκοῦν εἶναι πικρόν, ‘what appears to be harsh’’ (Mahaffy) (cf. Jas 312, PSI I. 284 (magic tablet—iii/iv A.D.) πικραῖς μάστιξιν, and Kazbe/ 640°! (c, ii/a.D.)— ἑξηκοστὸν ἔτος πανελεύθερον ἐξεβίωσα καὶ καλὸν τὸ τύχης καὶ πικρὸν οἶδα βίου. For a contrast with ὀξύς see Plut. AYam. xvii, 2 πικρὸς μὲν οὖν οὐδενί, πολλοῖς δὲ ὀξὺς ἐδόκει Kal κοῦφος εἶναι τὴν φύσιν.
πικρός (pikros) — bitter.
πικρός, ά, όν,
poetry also ός, όν [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—properly pointed, sharp, keen, ὀϊστός [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II. generally, sharp to the sense:
II.1. of taste, pungent, ῥίζα [Refs 8th c.BC+]; of salt water, opposed to γλυκύς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἁλμυρὸς καὶ π. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πριγλία π. [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἀπ᾽ ὄμφακος πικρᾶς [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὑγρότης π., opposed to ὀξεῖα, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; also of smell, pungent, [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.2. of feeling, sharp, keen, ὠδῖνες [Refs 8th c.BC+]
II.3. of sound, piercing, shrill, οἰμωγά [Refs]; γόοι, ὄδυρμα, [Refs 5th c.BC+]
III. metaphorically,
III.1. of things, bitter, especially of what yields pain instead of expected pleasure, frequently in threats, μὴ τάχα πικρὴν Αἴγυπτον καὶ Κύπρον ἵκηαι…
πικρός
pikros
perhaps from 4078 (through the idea of piercing); sharp (pungent),
i.e. acrid (literally or figuratively):--bitter.
see GREEK for 4078
πικρός, ά, όν
Adj
bitter, acrid, malignant
πικρός πικρός, ή, όν from πεύκη properly pointed, sharp, keen, ὀϊστός Il.; γλωχίς Soph.;metaph., γλώσσης πικροῖς κέντροισι Eur.
generally, sharp to the senses:
of taste, sharp, pungent, bitter, Hom., Hdt.:—so of smell, Od.
of feeling, sharp, keen, ὠδῖνες Il., Soph.
of sound, sharp, piercing, shrill, οἰμωγή, φθόγγος Soph.; γόοι Eur.
metaph.,
of things, bitter, cruel, Od., attic
of persons, bitter, malignant, Solon., Hdt., attic; πικρὸς θεοῖς hateful to the gods, Soph.; πικρὸς πολίταις Eur.
embittered, sorrowing, Soph.
comp. -ότερος, Sup. -ότατος Pind., etc.
adv. πικρῶς, bitterly, cruelly, Aesch., Soph.; π. ἔχειν τινί, πρός τινα Dem.; π. φέρειν τι Eur.
Adj-ASN — Adjective · accusative · singular · neuteraccusative — the one it is done to — the object.
Agrees with anything else marked singular neuter.
A-ASN Part of Speech: Adjective Case: Accusative Number: Singular Gender: Neuter
Bitter
Bitterness is symbolical of affliction, misery, and servitude (Ex. 1:14; Ruth 1:20; Jer. 9:15). The Chaldeans are called the “bitter and hasty nation” (Hab. 1:6). The “gall of bitterness” expresses a state of great wickedness (Acts 8:23). A “root of bitterness” is a wicked person or a dangerous sin (Heb. 12:15).
The Passover was to be eaten with “bitter herbs” (Ex. 12:8; Num. 9:11). The kind of herbs so designated is not known. Probably they were…
2 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.
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branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path
Counted over the 13 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.
εἰσὶ δέ τινες τῶν ἀσκητῶν, οἷς τὴν ἐπ’ ἀρετὴν ἄγουσαν ὁδὸν τραχεῖαν καὶ δυσάντη καὶ χαλεπὴν νομισθεῖσαν τὸ πρῶτον λεωφόρον αὖθις ὁ τὰ πάντα εὐεργέτης ἀπέδειξε θεὸς εἰς γλυκύτητα τὸ πικρὸν τοῦ πόνου μεταβαλών.
ἐπεφέροντο δʼ ἐκ τῆς προωδοιπορημένης ὕδωρ τοῦ στρατηγοῦ κεκελευκότος, καὶ τούτου δαπανηθέντος ἐκ φρεάτων ἐποιοῦντο τὴν ὑδρείαν ἐπιπόνως διὰ σκληρότητα τῆς γῆς, καὶ τὸ εὑρισκόμενον δὲ πικρὸν ἀλλʼ οὐ πότιμον ἦν, καὶ τοῦτο δὲ σπάνιον.
ἡ δὲ μακροθυμία μεγάλη ἐστὶ καὶ ἰσχυρὰ καὶ δύναμιν ἔχουσα καὶ στιβαρὰν καὶ εὐθηνουμένην ἐν πλατυσμῷ μεγάλῳ, ἱλαρά, ἀγαλλιωμένη, ἀμέριμνος οὖσα, δοξάζουσα τὸν κύριον ἐν παντὶ καιρῷ, μηδὲν ἐν ἑαυτῇ ἔχουσα πικρόν, παραμένουσα διὰ παντὸς πραεῖα καὶ…