ἡ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἡ

   hê

   the
2. sentence🔊 βλέπεις ὅτι ἡ πίστις συνήργει τοῖς ἔργοις αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐκ τῶν ἔργων ἡ πίστις ἐτελειώθη

   BLE-peis HO-ti hê PIS-tis sy-NEER-gei tois ER-gois au-TOU kai ek tôn ER-gōn hê PIS-tis e-te-le-Ō-thê

   you see that the faith was working together with the works of him and from the works the faith was completed

Exegesis

In this clause the subject hē pistis {ἡ πίστις | hē pís-tis} ‘the faith’ is fronted and then linked with the imperfect active indicative verb synērgei {συνήργει | syn-ḗr-gei} ‘was working together,’ whose imperfective aspect portrays an ongoing cooperative process.

The repeated subject hē pistis {ἡ πίστις | hē pís-tis} ‘the faith’ is then the patient of the aorist passive indicative verb eteleiōthē {ἐτελειώθη | e-te-lei-ṓ-thē} ‘was completed,’ presenting a resultative event in which faith is brought to its intended end. The parallel structure between the cooperative imperfect and the resultative aorist underscores that works are integral to bringing faith to maturity.

Root and etymology

synagō🔊 συνάγωsigma–upsilon–nu–alpha–gamma–omega

“to bring together, gather”