τοῦ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τοῦ

   tou

   of the
2. sentence🔊 ἄνθρωποις παραδεδωκόσι τὰς ψυχὰς αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ.

   AN-thrô-pois pa-ra-de-dô-KO-si tas psy-KHAS au-TÔN hy-PER tou o-NO-ma-tos tou KY-ri-ou hê-MON ee-ay-SOO khree-STOO

   men having handed over the lives their for the name of the Lord our Jesus Christ

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase hyper tou onomatos {ὑπὲρ τοῦ ὀνόματος | hypér tou onó-matos} ‘for the name’ expresses action on behalf of or for the sake of someone, here indicating vicarious devotion.

This is further defined by the genitive chain tou kuriou hēmōn Iesou Christou {τοῦ κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ | toû kurí-ou hē-môn Iē-soû Khris-toû}, in which successive genitives (“of the Lord,” “of us,” “of Jesus,” “of Christ”) identify whose name is in view: that of “our Lord Jesus Christ.” In English, the participial construction is naturally rendered as a relative clause (“men who have given over…”) and the hyper phrase is maintained as “for the name” to preserve the theological nuance of sacrificial allegiance to Christ’s person and reputation.