John 1:48:21John.1.48.W21TAB
εἶδόν
eidon
“I saw”
- Transliteration
- EI-don
- Extended
- EI-dohn
- IPA
- /ˈiː.don/
Meaning by language
- English
- I saw
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Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
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EI-don
- sentence
LE-gei au-TOI na-tha-na-EL PO-then me gi-NO-skeis a-pe-KRI-thê ee-ay-SOOS KAI EI-pen au-TOI pro tou se PHI-lip-pon phō-NÊ-sai ON-ta hy-PO tên sy-KÊN EI-don se
Exegesis
The main clause eidon se {εἶδόν σε | ei-dón se} “I saw you” concludes the saying, and its final position in Greek gives rhetorical emphasis to Jesus’ personal, initiating vision of Nathanael. The English renderings preserve this structure by keeping the temporal clause first (“Before Philip called you”), followed by the situational description (“while you were under the fig tree”), and climaxing in the emphatic declaration, “I saw you.”
Root and etymology
horaōomicron–rho–alpha–omega
“to see, perceive”
In context — John 1:48
Nathanael said to Him, “How do You know me?” Jesus answered and said to him, “Before Philip called you, while you were under the fig tree , I saw you.”
About this coordinate
John 1:48:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of John 1:48, so the Greek word εἶδόν (eidon) 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.1.48.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (John.1.48.W21.S1) and character.