ἡμῶν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἡμῶν

   hê-MON

   of us
2. sentence🔊 ζητεῖν τὸν θεὸν εἰ ἄρα γε ψηλαφήσειαν αὐτὸν καὶ εὕροιεν καί γε οὐ μακρὰν ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν ὑπάρχοντα

   dzê-TEIN ton the-ON ei A-ra ge psê-la-PHÊ-sei-an au-TON kai HEU-roi-en KAI ge ou ma-KRAN a-PO he-NOS he-KAS-tou hê-MON hy-PAR-khon-ta

   to seek the God if perhaps indeed they might feel after him and might find and indeed not far from one each of us being

Exegesis

The prepositional phrase apo henos hekastou hemon {ἀπὸ ἑνὸς ἑκάστου ἡμῶν | apò he-nós he-kás-tou hē-môn} stresses the universal and individual scope of God’s nearness, and the participle hyparchonta {ὑπάρχοντα | hy-pár-chon-ta} functions predicatively, “being” or “as One who is,” linking God’s existence with His relational proximity to every person. In English, the optative forms are conveyed by “might” and “perhaps,” the particle cluster is rendered with natural conditional language, and the final participial phrase is turned into a finite clause (“He is not far from each one of us”) to preserve clarity and flow while retaining the verse’s contrast between uncertain human searching and assured divine nearness.

Root and etymology

schema🔊 σχῆμαsigma–chi–eta–mu–alpha

“form, outward appearance”

• 🔊 σχῆμαSKHĒ-maform, outward shapePhilippians 2:8
• 🔊 εὐσχημοσύνηeus-skhē-mo-SÝ-nēdignity, propriety1 Corinthians 12:23