τὴν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τὴν

   tên

   the
2. sentence🔊 Ἐν δὲ ταῖς Ἀθήναις ἐκδεχομένου αὐτοὺς τοῦ Παύλου παρωξύνετο τὸ πνεῦμα αὐτοῦ ἐν αὐτῷ θεωροῦντος κατείδωλον οὖσαν τὴν πόλιν

   en de tais a-THÊ-nai̯s ek-de-kho-ME-nou au-TUS tou PAU-lou pa-rō-KSY-ne-to to PNEU-ma au-TOU en au-TÔ the-ō-ROUN-tos ka-TEI-dō-lon OU-san tên PO-lin

   in but the Athens waiting for them of Paul was provoked the spirit his in in him seeing full of idols being the city

Exegesis

A second genitive participial construction, theōrountos kateidōlon ousan tēn polin {θεωροῦντος κατείδωλον οὖσαν τὴν πόλιν | theōroûntos kateídōlon oûsan tḗn pólin}, depends on the same implicit genitive subject (Paul) and expresses the circumstance or cause: ‘as he was observing the city being full of idols.’ Here ousan links the object tēn polin with the predicate adjective kateidōlon, characterizing Athens as comprehensively idolatrous. In translation, the genitive absolutes are rendered as temporal clauses (“while Paul was waiting,” “as he observed”) to preserve the flow of narrative and make clear that Paul’s inner provocation arises precisely from his sustained observation of the city’s pervasive idolatry.

Root and etymology

anistēmi🔊 ἀνίστημιalpha–nu–iota–sigma–tau–eta–mu–iota

“to raise, make stand up”

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