John 11:37:2John.11.37.W2TAB

δὲ

de

but

Transliteration
DE
Extended
DEH
IPA
/ˈde/

Meaning by language

English
but

Alphabet Analysis

Deltath — as in this
Epsilone — as in met (short)

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Word in context

  1. word

    DE

  2. clause

    ti-NES DE eks au-TÔN EI-pan

  3. sentence

    ti-NES DE eks au-TÔN EI-pan ouk e-DY-na-to HOU-tos ho a-NOI-ksas tous oph-thal-MOUS tou ty-PHLOU poi-Ê-sai HI-na KAI HOU-tos MÊ a-po-THA-nê

Exegesis

The sentence begins with tines de {τινὲς δὲ | tinès dè} ‘but some’, where the contrastive particle de links this comment to the preceding scene of grief while the indefinite pronoun tines marks only a portion of the onlookers as speakers.

Root and etymology

adelphosalpha delta epsilon lambda phi omicron sigma

sibling from the same womb

In contextJohn 11:37

But some of them said, “Could not this one who opened the eyes of the blind have done something so that even this one would not have died?”

About this coordinate

John 11:37:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of John 11:37, so the Greek word δὲ (de) 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.11.37.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (John.11.37.W2.S1) and character.