Acts 19:35:4Acts.19.35.W4TAB
γραμματεύς
grammateus
“clerk”
- Transliteration
- gram-ma-TEUS
- Extended
- grahm-mah-TEUS
- IPA
- /gram.maˈteu̯s/
Meaning by language
- English
- clerk
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Alphabet Analysis
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
gram-ma-TEUS
- 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 subject is ho grammateus {ὁ γραμματεύς | ho grammateús}, the civic official in Ephesus, and the direct object of the participle is ton ochlon {τὸν ὄχλον | tón óchlon} ‘the crowd’. The participial construction is rendered as a temporal clause in English (“after…had quieted” / “when…had calmed”) to reflect its background, sequential function.
Root and etymology
grammagamma–rho–alpha–mu–mu–alpha
“written character, document”
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 19:35:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Acts 19:35, so the Greek word γραμματεύς (grammateus) 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.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.19.35.W4.S1) and character.