τὴν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τὴν

   tên

   the
2. sentence🔊 ὅτε δὲ ἀνέβησαν ἐκ τοῦ ὕδατος πνεῦμα κυρίου ἥρπασεν τὸν Φίλιππον καὶ οὐκ εἶδεν αὐτὸν οὐκέτι ὁ εὐνοῦχος ἐπορεύετο γὰρ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ χαίρων.

   HO-te de a-NE-bê-san ek tou HY-da-tos PNEU-ma KY-ree-ou HÊR-pa-sen ton PHI-lip-pon kai ouk EI-den au-TON ou-KE-ti ho eu-NOU-khos e-po-REU-e-to gar tên ho-DON au-TOU KHAI-rōn

   when and they went up from the water Spirit of {the} Lord snatched away the Philip and not saw him no longer the eunuch was going for the way of him rejoicing

Exegesis

The clause eporeueto gar ten hodon autou chairon {ἐπορεύετο γὰρ τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ χαίρων | e-po-reú-e-to gár tēn ho-dón au-toû khaí-rōn} uses the imperfect eporeueto {ἐπορεύετο | e-po-reú-e-to} to portray ongoing action—he kept going on his way—while gar {γὰρ | gár} introduces this as an explanation or result of the previous event.

The direct object ten hodon autou {τὴν ὁδὸν αὐτοῦ | tēn ho-dón au-toû} specifies his personal route, and the participle chairon {χαίρων | khaí-rōn} functions adverbially to describe the manner of his travel: he traveled rejoicing. In translation, the temporal clause is rendered first to preserve narrative sequencing, the suddenness of hērpasen is reflected with “snatched” or “suddenly took,” and the imperfect eporeueto is represented by “went on” to suggest continuous motion. The participle chairon is converted into a finite expression “rejoicing” or “filled with joy” to keep natural English flow while still marking the joyful emotional state as the outcome of the encounter.