τῶν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τῶν

   tōn

   of the
2. sentence🔊 δουλεύων τῷ κυρίῳ μετὰ πάσης ταπεινοφροσύνης καὶ δακρύων καὶ πειρασμῶν τῶν συμβάντων μοι ἐν ταῖς ἐπιβουλαῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων

   dou-LEU-ōn tō ky-REE-ō me-TA PA-sēs ta-pei-no-phro-SY-nēs KAI da-KRY-ōn KAI pei-ras-MŌN tōn sym-BAN-tōn MOI en TAIS e-pi-bou-LAIS tōn i-ou-dai-ŌN

   serving the Lord with all humility and tears and trials of the that happened to me in the plots of the Jews

Exegesis

The genitive participial phrase ton symbanton moi {τῶν συμβάντων μοι | tōn symbántōn moi} “that happened to me” qualifies peirasmon, identifying these trials as concrete historical events affecting Paul personally.

The prepositional phrase en tais epiboulais tōn Ioudaiōn {ἐν ταῖς ἐπιβουλαῖς τῶν Ἰουδαίων | en taîs epiboulaîs tōn Ioudaíōn} is locative, situating those events within the context of “the plots of the Jews,” and implicitly indicating the source of danger. In translation, the participial structure is rendered either as a finite verb (“I served”) or as an adverbial participle (“Serving”), while preserving the sequential flow: service directed to the Lord, characterized by humility and tears, and taking place amid hostile schemes. The English phrasing maintains the piling effect of the coordinated genitives and makes explicit the connection between the trials and the hostile plots without over-specifying causal relations beyond the Greek locative expression.

Root and etymology

asthenēs🔊 ἀσθενήςasthenḗs

“weak, without strength”

• 🔊 ἀσθένειαastheneiaweakness2 Corinthians 12:9
• 🔊 ἀσθενέωastheneōto be weakJames 5:14