1 Corinthians 13:1:161 Cor.13.1.W16TAB
ἠχῶν
êkhôn
“sounding”
- Transliteration
- ê-KHÔN
- Extended
- ay-KHOHN
- IPA
- /ɛːˈkʰɔːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- sounding
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Alphabet Analysis
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Chi | h/kh — like Bach | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
ê-KHÔN
- sentence
e-AN TAIS GLÔS-sais tôn an-THRÔ-pōn la-LÔ KAI tôn an-GGE-lōn a-GA-pēn de MÊ E-khō GE-go-na khal-KOS ê-KHÔN Ê KYM-ba-lon a-la-LA-dzon
Exegesis
This verb is completed by two predicate nominatives: chalkos echōn {χαλκὸς ἠχῶν | khal-kós ē-khôn} ‘a sounding brass’ and kymbalon alalazon {κύμβαλον ἀλαλάζον | kým-ba-lon a-la-lá-zon} ‘a clanging cymbal’, linked by the disjunctive e {ἢ | ē} ‘or’. The participles echōn and alalazon modify the metallic nouns, creating vivid metaphors of empty, resonant noise. In translation, the conditional structure is preserved by rendering the protasis with “If I speak” and, in dynamic form, “Even if I could speak,” while the metaphoric predicates are expressed through idiomatic English images that convey impressive yet ultimately meaningless sound in the absence of love.
In context — 1 Corinthians 13:1
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but do not have love, I have become a sounding brass or a clanging cymbal .
About this coordinate
1 Corinthians 13:1:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of 1 Corinthians 13:1, so the Greek word ἠχῶν (êkhôn) can be cited, linked and studied at exactly this position rather than somewhere in the verse. In the Biblical Knowledge Coordinate System the same position is written 1 Cor.13.1.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Cor.13.1.W16.S1) and character.