1 Corinthians 13:12:211 Cor.13.12.W21TAB
καὶ
kai
“also”
- Transliteration
- KAI
- Extended
- kai
- IPA
- /kai/
Meaning by language
- English
- also
Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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BLE-po-men gar AR-ti di e-SO-ptro(u) en ai-NEEG-ma-ti TO-te de PRO-sō-pon pros PRO-sō-pon AR-ti gi-NO-sko ek ME-rous TO-te de e-pi-GNO-so-mai ka-THŌS KAI e-pe-GNO-sthên
Exegesis
The comparative kathos kai epegnosthen {καθὼς καὶ ἐπεγνώσθην | kathṓs kaí epegnṓsthēn} “just as also I was fully known” introduces a standard of comparison: the future fullness of the speaker’s knowledge is patterned after an already accomplished, complete knowing of the speaker by another (implicitly God), expressed by the aorist passive. In translation, the parallel arti/tote and the repeated contrast between partial and complete knowledge are preserved through consistent temporal adverbs and matching clauses, maintaining the eschatological movement from obscurity to clarity and from fragmentary understanding to fullness.
In context — 1 Corinthians 13:12
For now we see through a mirror in a riddle , but then face to face. Now I know in part, but then I shall know fully, just as I have also been fully known.
About this coordinate
1 Corinthians 13:12:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of 1 Corinthians 13:12, so the Greek word καὶ (kai) 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.13.12.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (1 Cor.13.12.W21.S1) and character.