John 1:10:6John.1.10.W6TAB
ὁ
ho
“{the}”
- Transliteration
- ho
- Extended
- ho
- IPA
- /ho/
Meaning by language
- English
- {the}
Alphabet Analysis
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) |
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Word in context
- word
ho
- sentence
en TOI KOS-moi ÊN KAI ho KOS-mos di au-TOU e-GE-ne-to KAI ho KOS-mos au-TON ouk EG-nô
Exegesis
The second clause, ho kosmos di’ autou egeneto {ὁ κόσμος διʼ αὐτοῦ ἐγένετο | ho kósmos di' autoû egéneto}, places ho kosmos as grammatical subject, with the prepositional phrase di’ autou expressing agency through the genitive pronoun: the world “came into being” through Him. The aorist middle egeneto summarizes the act of creation as a completed event.
The third clause, ho kosmos auton ouk egnō {ὁ κόσμος αὐτὸν οὐκ ἔγνω | ho kósmos autón ouk egnō}, repeats ho kosmos for rhetorical emphasis, highlighting the tragic irony that the created order, personified as “the world,” failed to “know” Him. The aorist egnō carries the sense of decisive, relational recognition rather than mere cognition. The structure moves from His presence, to His role in creation, to the world’s failure to respond rightly, which the translations render by preserving the repeated “world” and distinguishing the continuous “was” from the summary aorists “was made” / “came into being” and “did not know/recognize.”
Root and etymology
kosm-kappa–omicron–sigma–mu
“order, arranged world”
In context — John 1:10
He was in the world, and the world was made through Him, and the world did not know Him.
About this coordinate
John 1:10:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of John 1:10, so the Greek word ὁ (ho) 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 John.1.10.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (John.1.10.W6.S1) and character.