Acts 19:35:27Acts.19.35.W27TAB
διοπετοῦς
diopetous
“fallen from heaven”
- Transliteration
- di-o-pe-TOUS
- Extended
- dih-oh-peh-TOOS
- IPA
- /di.o.peˈtuːs/
Meaning by language
- English
- fallen from heaven
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Alphabet Analysis
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
di-o-pe-TOUS
- sentence
ka-ta-STEI-las de ho gram-ma-TEUS ton OKH-lon phê-SEEN AN-dres e-PHE-si-oi tis gar es-TIN an-THRÔ-pôn hos ou gi-NÔS-kei tên e-phe-SI-ôn PO-lin ne-ô-KO-ron OU-san tês me-GA-lês ar-TE-mi-dos kai tou di-o-pe-TOUS
Exegesis
The genitives tēs megalēs Artemidos {τῆς μεγάλης Ἀρτέμιδος | tēs megálēs Artémidos} and tou diopetous {τοῦ διοπετοῦς | toû diopetoûs} both depend on neokoron, specifying what the city serves as temple-keeper of: the great goddess Artemis and the sky-fallen object. The adjective diopetous is substantivized and refers to a cult image thought to have fallen from Zeus, which we render as “the thing that fell from Zeus” in formal style and “the object that fell down from heaven” in dynamic style to convey the mythic, celestial origin without over-specifying its form. Throughout, the Greek word order foregrounds the city’s honored status before detailing the objects of its guardianship, a pattern preserved by keeping “the city of the Ephesians” as the central subject in both translations.
Root and etymology
petomaipi–epsilon–tau–omicron–mu–alpha–iota
“to fly, to fall from above”
In context — Acts 19:35
But after the scribe had quieted the crowd, he said, “Men of Ephesus, who is there who does not know that the city of the Ephesians is the temple-keeper of the great Artemis and of the thing that fell from Zeus?”
About this coordinate
Acts 19:35:27 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 27 of Acts 19:35, so the Greek word διοπετοῦς (diopetous) 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.19.35.W27, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.19.35.W27.S1) and character.