Acts 15:5:17Acts.15.5.W17TAB

τε

te

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Transliteration
te
Extended
teh
IPA
/te/

Meaning by language

English
and

Alphabet Analysis

Taut — as in top
Epsilone — as in met (short)

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Word in context

  1. word

    te

  2. sentence

    ek-sa-NE-stê-san de TI-nes tôn a-PO tês hai-RE-se-ôs tôn pha-ri-sa-I-ôn pe-pi-steu-KO-tes LE-gon-tes HO-ti DEI pe-ri-TEM-nein au-TOUS pa-rang-GEL-lein te tê-REIN ton NO-mon mô-y-sE-ôs

Exegesis

The conjunction hoti {ὅτι | hóti} introduces an indirect statement centered on the impersonal verb dei {δεῖ | deî} ‘it is necessary’, governing the infinitives peritemnein {περιτέμνειν | peritémnein} ‘to circumcise’ and the coordinated paraggellein te terein {παραγγέλλειν τε τηρεῖν | parangéllein te tēreîn} ‘to command and to keep’.

The enclitic te {τε | te} tightly links these obligations.

Root and etymology

peritemnōpi–epsilon–rho–iota–tau–epsilon–mu–nu–omega

to cut around, circumcise

In contextActs 15:5

But some who had believed, from the sect of the Pharisees, stood up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to command them to keep the law of Moses.”

About this coordinate

Acts 15:5:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Acts 15:5, so the Greek word τε (te) 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 Acts.15.5.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.15.5.W17.S1) and character.