τὸ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τὸ

   to

   the
2. sentence🔊 ὀδυνώμενοι μάλιστα ἐπὶ τῷ λόγῳ ᾧ εἰρήκει ὅτι οὐκέτι μέλλουσιν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ θεωρεῖν προέπεμπον δὲ αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πλοῖον

   o-dy-NO-me-noi MA-lis-ta e-PEE tôi LO-gôi hôi ei-REE-kei HO-ti ou-KE-ti MEL-lou-sin to PRO-sô-pon au-TOU the-ô-REIN pro-E-pem-pon de au-TON eis to PLOI-on

   being grieved most of all because of the word which he had said that no longer they are about the face his to see they were accompanying and him to the ship

Exegesis

The content of that word is introduced by hoti {ὅτι | hóti} as indirect discourse: ouketi mellousin to prosōpon autou theōrein {οὐκέτι μέλλουσιν τὸ πρόσωπον αὐτοῦ θεωρεῖν | oukéti mél-lousin tó prósōpon autoû theōreîn}, literally “they are no longer about to see His face,” where mellousin plus infinitive theōrein expresses a future expectation, and ouketi negates it as a permanent loss. The object to prosōpon autou places emphasis on the personal, relational aspect of parting.

The main narrative verb proepempon {προέπεμπον | proépempon} with de {δὲ | de} resumes the storyline, describing their ongoing action of accompanying him, while the prepositional phrase eis to ploion {εἰς τὸ πλοῖον | eis tó ploîon} marks the spatial goal. English formal rendering preserves the Greek sequence by foregrounding the cause of grief before the action of escorting, whereas the dynamic translation smooths the flow with explicit temporal progression (“Then they went with him”) while retaining the same causal and result relationships.

Root and etymology

sabbaton🔊 σάββατονsigma–alpha–beta–beta–alpha–tau–omicron–nu

“Sabbath, by extension week”

• 🔊 σάββατονsabbatonSabbath dayMark 2:27
• 🔊 σαββατισμόςsabbatismosSabbath restHebrews 4:9