τὴν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τὴν

   tēn

   the
2. sentence🔊 διὰ ταύτην οὖν τὴν αἰτίαν παρεκάλεσα ὑμᾶς ἰδεῖν καὶ προσλαλῆσαι ἕνεκεν γὰρ τῆς ἐλπίδος τοῦ Ἰσραὴλ τὴν ἅλυσιν ταύτην περίκειμαι

   di-A TAU-tēn OUN tēn ai-TI-an pa-re-KA-le-sa hy-MAS i-DEIN kai pros-la-LÊ-sai HE-ne-ken gar tês el-PI-dos tou is-ra-ÊL tēn HA-ly-sin TAU-tēn pe-RI-kei-mai

   for this therefore the reason I urged you to see and to speak because of for of the hope of the Israel the chain this I am wearing

Exegesis

The verse begins with a fronted prepositional phrase dia tauten oun ten aitian {διὰ ταύτην οὖν τὴν αἰτίαν | diá taútēn oûn tḕn aitían}, which foregrounds the motivation for Paul’s action: “because of this, therefore, the cause.”

The final segment, tauten perikeimai ten halysin {ταύτην περικείμαι τὴν ἅλυσιν | taú-tēn pe-ri-keî-mai tḕn há-ly-sin}, exhibits hyperbaton by separating the demonstrative tauten from its noun halysin with the verb perikeimai, creating emphasis on “this very chain” that the audience can see. The present middle/passive perikeimai portrays Paul’s chained condition as a continuing state. In translation, the fronted causal phrase is rendered “Therefore, for this cause” in the formal reconstruction to retain logical linkage, while the dynamic reconstruction uses “That is why” to make the discourse flow naturally in contemporary English. The coordinated infinitives are expressed as “to see me and to speak with me” and “to come and meet with me and talk together,” preserving both the visual and conversational purposes. The heneken gar clause is consistently represented as an explanatory “because of the hope of Israel,” tying Paul’s physical chains directly to his proclamation of Israel’s hope.

Root and etymology

katantaō🔊 καταντάωkappa–alpha–tau–alpha–nu–tau–alpha–omega

“to come down to, arrive at a place or goal”

• 🔊 καταντήσωμενka-tan-TĒ-sō-menwe might attain, arriveEphesians 4:13