Acts 17:25:6Acts.17.25.W6TAB
προσδεόμενός
prosdeomenos
“needing”
- Transliteration
- pros-de-O-me-NOS
- Extended
- prohs-deh-OH-meh-NOHS
- IPA
- /pros.de.o.meˈnos/
Meaning by language
- English
- needing
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
pros-de-O-me-NOS
- sentence
ou-DE hy-PO khei-RON an-thrô-PEE-nōn the-ra-PEU-e-tai pros-de-O-me-NOS TI-nos au-TOS di-DOUS PA-si zô-ÊN KAI pno-ÊN KAI ta PAN-ta
Exegesis
The participle prosdeomenos tinos {προσδεόμενός τινος | pros-de-ó-me-nos tí-nos} ‘needing anything’ syntactically qualifies the main verb, carrying an implicit comparative sense ‘as though.’
In context — Acts 17:25
Nor is He served by human hands as though He needed anything, since He Himself gives to all people life and breath and all things.
About this coordinate
Acts 17:25:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Acts 17:25, so the Greek word προσδεόμενός (prosdeomenos) 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.17.25.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.17.25.W6.S1) and character.