με

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 με

   me

   me
2. sentence🔊 τότε ὁ Παῦλος πρὸς αὐτὸν εἶπεν Τύπτειν σε μέλλει ὁ θεός τοῖχε κεκονιαμένε καὶ σὺ κάθῃ κρίνων με κατὰ τὸν νόμον καὶ παρανομῶν κελεύεις με τύπτεσθαι

   TO-te ho PAU-los pros au-TON EI-pen TYP-tein se MEL-lei ho the-OS TOI-khe ke-ko-ni-a-ME-ne kai sy KA-thêi KRI-nōn me ka-TA ton NO-mon kai pa-ra-no-MŌN ke-LEU-eis me TYP-tes-thai

   then the Paul to him said to strike you is about the God wall whitewashed and you sit judging me according to the law and acting contrary to law you command me to be struck

Exegesis

The clause kai sy kathe krinōn me kata ton nomon {καὶ σὺ κάθῃ κρίνων με κατὰ τὸν νόμον | kaí sý ká-thē krí-nōn me katá ton nó-mon} presents a contrastive coordination: the finite verb kathe {κάθῃ | ká-thē} (“you sit”) is modified by the participle krinōn {κρίνων | krí-nōn} (“judging”), and the prepositional phrase kata ton nomon {κατὰ τὸν νόμον | ka-tá tón nó-mon} specifies the claimed standard of legal judgment.

The final clause keleueis me typtesthai {κελεύεις με τύπτεσθαι | ke-leú-eis me týp-te-sthai} uses an object complement structure: the finite verb “you command” takes the pronoun me as object and the passive infinitive typtesthai {τύπτεσθαι | týp-te-sthai} as the content of the command, providing concrete evidence of the unlawful behavior. The English translations preserve the fronted vocative for rhetorical force and render the participles krinōn and paranomōn as finite or subordinate clauses to maintain natural flow while retaining the contrast between judging “according to the law” and at the same time violating it.

Root and etymology

diatasso🔊 διατάσσωdelta–iota–alpha–tau–alpha–sigma–sigma–omega

“to arrange, prescribe, command”

• 🔊 διαταγήdiatagḗordinance, directiveRomans 13:2
• 🔊 διατάσσωdiatássōto order, directLuke 8:55