Acts 7:40:4Acts.7.40.W4TAB
Ποίησον
poiêson
“make”
- Transliteration
- POI-ê-son
- Extended
- POI-ê-sohn
- IPA
- /ˈpoi.eː.son/
Meaning by language
- English
- make
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
POI-ê-son
- sentence
ei-PON-tes tôi a-a-RON POI-ê-son hê-MEEN the-OUS hoi pro-po-REU-son-tai hê-MON ho gar mô-yü-SÊS HOU-tos hos ek-SÊ-ga-gen hê-MAS ek gês ai-GYP-tou ouk OI-da-men TI e-GE-ne-to au-TÔ
Exegesis
The imperative Poiēson {Ποίησον | Poí-e-son} governs the object theous {θεοὺς | the-oús} ‘gods’, while the relative clause hoi proporeusontai hēmōn {οἳ προπορεύσονται ἡμῶν | hoí pro-po-reú-son-tai hē-môn} further defines these “gods” by their intended function as those who “will go before” the people, with hēmōn marking them as the beneficiaries of such guidance.
In context — Acts 7:40
They said to Aaron, “Make for us gods who will go before us, for this Moses, who led us out of the land of Egypt, we do not know what has happened to him.”
About this coordinate
Acts 7:40:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Acts 7:40, so the Greek word Ποίησον (poiêson) 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.7.40.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Acts.7.40.W4.S1) and character.