Acts 16:1:23Acts.16.1.W23TAB
Ἕλληνος
hellênos
“Greek”
- Transliteration
- HEL-lê-nos
- Extended
- HEHL-lê-nohs
- IPA
- /ˈhel.lɛː.nos/
Meaning by language
- English
- Greek
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Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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The word
Word in context
- word
HEL-lê-nos
- sentence
ka-TÊN-tê-sen de KAI eis DER-bên KAI eis LYS-tran KAI i-DOU ma-thê-TÊS tis ÊN e-KEI o-NO-ma-ti ti-MO-the-os hy-HOS gy-nai-KOS iou-dai-AS pis-TÊS pa-TROS de HEL-lê-nos
Exegesis
The noun huios {υἱὸς | huiós} “son” is expanded by two genitives: gynaikos Ioudaias pistes {γυναικὸς Ἰουδαίας πιστῆς | gynaikós Ioudaías pistês} on his mother’s Jewish faith, then patros de Hellenos {πατρὸς δὲ Ἕλληνος | patrós dè Héllēnos} marking his Greek father by contrast. The formal version preserves the single Greek sentence’s flow, while the dynamic version breaks into two clauses for clarity.
Root and etymology
Hellasepsilon–lambda–lambda–alpha–sigma
“Greece, Greek person”
In context — Acts 16:1
He came also to Derbe and to Lystra, and look, a certain disciple was there named Timothy, the son of a Jewish woman who was a believer, but with a Greek father .
About this coordinate
Acts 16:1:23 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 23 of Acts 16:1, so the Greek word Ἕλληνος (hellênos) 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.16.1.W23, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.16.1.W23.S1) and character.