τῶν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τῶν

   tōn

   of the
2. sentence🔊 καί τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν ἐπείσθησαν καὶ προσεκληρώθησαν τῷ Παύλῳ καὶ τῷ Σιλᾷ τῶν τε σεβομένων Ἑλλήνων πλῆθος πολὺ γυναικῶν τε τῶν πρώτων οὐκ ὀλίγαι

   KAI TI-nes eks au-TON e-PEI-sthē-san KAI pro-se-klē-RŌ-thē-san tō PAU-lō KAI tō si-LA tōn te se-bo-ME-nōn hel-LĒ-nōn PLÊ-thos po-LY gy-nai-KŌN te tōn PRŌ-tōn ouk o-LI-gai

   and some from them were persuaded and were assigned and joined to Paul and to Silas of the and worshiping Greeks a multitude great of women and of the first not few

Exegesis

The genitive phrase tōn te sebomenōn Hellēnōn {τῶν τε σεβομένων Ἑλλήνων | tôn te se-bo-me-nōn Hel-lē-nōn} identifies “God-revering Greeks,” a conventional label for Gentile adherents attached to the synagogue, with te linking them closely to the previous group.

The final segment gynaikōn te tōn prōtōn ouk oligai {γυναικῶν τε τῶν πρώτων οὐκ ὀλίγαι | gu-nai-kōn te tôn prô-tōn ouk o-lí-gai} uses litotes ('not few') to stress that many socially prominent women responded, balancing the mention of Greeks and underscoring the socially diverse impact of the mission. In English, the long Greek sentence is slightly segmented and reordered to keep the flow from persuasion to joining clear while preserving the coordinated structure and emphases.

Root and etymology

prōt-🔊 πρωτ-pi–rho–omega–tau

“first, foremost”

• 🔊 πρωτεύωprō-teu-ōto have the first place, be preeminentColossians 1:18
• 🔊 πρῶτονprô-tonfirst, in the first placeRomans 1:16