ἐπʼ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἐπʼ

   ep

   upon
2. sentence🔊 καὶ νῦν ἰδοὺ χεὶρ κυρίου ἐπὶ σέ καὶ ἔσῃ τυφλὸς μὴ βλέπων τὸν ἥλιον ἄχρι καιροῦ παραχρῆμα δὲ ἔπεσεν ἐπʼ αὐτὸν ἀχλὺς καὶ σκότος καὶ περιάγων ἐζήτει χειραγωγούς

   KAI NYN i-DOU KHEIR ky-REE-ou e-PI SE KAI E-sê ty-PHLOS MÊ BLE-pōn ton HÊ-li-on A-khri kai-ROU pa-ra-KHRÊ-ma de E-pe-sen ep au-TON a-KHLYS KAI SKO-tos KAI pe-ri-A-gōn e-DZÊ-tei khei-ra-gō-GOUS

   and now behold hand of {the} Lord upon you and you will be blind not seeing the sun until {a} time immediately and fell upon him mist and darkness and going around he was seeking hand-guides

Exegesis

The clause kheir kyriou epi se {χεὶρ κυρίου ἐπὶ σέ | kheír kyríou epí sé} employs the idiom “hand of the Lord upon you,” a genitive construction in which kyriou functions as the source of the active agency, while epi with the accusative se marks the hostile direction of that agency toward the person addressed.

This state is specified further by the participial phrase mē blepōn ton hēlion {μὴ βλέπων τὸν ἥλιον | mḗ blépōn tón hḗ-lion}, in which the present participle indicates the ongoing result of the judgment: continued inability to see the sun.

A sharp narrative shift follows with parachrēma de epesen {παραχρῆμα δὲ ἔπεσεν | parachrê-ma dé épesen}, where the adverb parachrēma “immediately” with the aorist verb epesen “fell” portrays the instantaneous fulfillment of the spoken word.

Root and etymology

apopleo🔊 ἀποπλέωalpha–pi–omicron–pi–lambda–epsilon–omega

“to sail away, depart by sea”

• 🔊 πλεῖνpi–lambda–epsilon–iota–nuto sailActs 20:6