Acts 23:21:22Acts.23.21.W22TAB
οὗ
hou
“when”
- Transliteration
- hou
- Extended
- hoo
- IPA
- /huː/
Meaning by language
- English
- when
Alphabet Analysis
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
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hou
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sy oun MÊ peis-THÊS au-TOIS e-ne-DREU-ou-sin gar au-TON eks au-TÔN AN-dres PLEI-ous te-se-RA-kon-ta HOI-ti-nes a-ne-the-MA-ti-san he-au-TOUS MÊ-te pha-GEIN MÊ-te pi-EIN HE-ōs hou a-NE-lō-sin au-TON kai NYN EI-sin HE-toi-moi pros-de-KHO-me-noi tên a-PO sou e-paŋ-ge-LI-an
Exegesis
The temporal clause heōs hou anelōsin auton {ἕως οὗ ἀνέλωσιν αὐτόν | héōs hoû anélōsin autón} uses heōs hou with the aorist subjunctive to indicate a future-contingent limit: the oath holds “until the time when” they succeed in killing him.
Root and etymology
boulebeta–omicron–upsilon–lambda–eta
“plan, counsel, design”
In context — Acts 23:21
Therefore you must not be persuaded by them, for more than forty men from among them are lying in wait for him, who have bound themselves with an oath neither to eat nor to drink until they have killed him; and now they are ready, awaiting the promise from you .
About this coordinate
Acts 23:21:22 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 22 of Acts 23:21, so the Greek word οὗ (hou) 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.23.21.W22, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.23.21.W22.S1) and character.