Acts 2:8:10Acts.2.8.W10TAB
ἐν
en
“in”
- Transliteration
- en
- Extended
- ehn
- IPA
- /en/
Meaning by language
- English
- in
Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
en
- sentence
KAI PÔS hê-MEIS a-KOU-o-men HE-ka-stos têi i-DI-a di-a-LEK-tôi hê-MON en hêi e-ge-NNÊ-thê-men
Exegesis
The prepositional-relative clause en he egennethemen {ἐν ᾗ ἐγεννήθημεν | en hē̂ egennḗthēmen} modifies dialekto {διαλέκτῳ | dialéktō}, tying the dialect specifically to the place or context of birth and reinforcing ethnic and geographic identity. The English renderings maintain the initial interrogative focus (“And how” / “So how”) and mirror the Greek progression from collective (“we”) to distributive (“each of us”), while expressing the relative clause as “in which we were born” or “of our birth” to keep the close linkage between language and birthplace.
Root and etymology
pentēkontapi–epsilon–nu–tau–eta–kappa–omicron–nu–tau–alpha
“fifty”
In context — Acts 2:8
And how is it that we each hear in our own language, in which we were born?
About this coordinate
Acts 2:8:10 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 10 of Acts 2:8, so the Greek word ἐν (en) 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.2.8.W10, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.2.8.W10.S1) and character.