John 12:35:23John.12.35.W23TAB
καταλάβῃ
katalabêi
“may overtake”
- Transliteration
- ka-ta-LA-bêi
- Extended
- kah-tah-LAH-behêi
- IPA
- /ka.taˈla.bɛːi/
Meaning by language
- English
- may overtake
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Beta | v — as in victory | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
ka-ta-LA-bêi
- sentence
EI-pen OUN au-TOIS ho ee-ay-SOOS E-ti mi-KRON KHRO-non to PHÔS en hy-MEEN es-TIN pe-ri-pa-TEI-te hôs to PHÔS E-khe-te HI-na mê sko-TI-a hy-MAS ka-ta-LA-bêi kai ho pe-ri-pa-TÔN en têi sko-TI-ai ouk OI-den pou hy-PA-gei
Exegesis
The purpose clause hina me skotia humas katalabē {ἵνα μὴ σκοτία ὑμᾶς καταλάβῃ | hí-na mḕ sko-tí-a hu-mâs ka-ta-lá-bē} expresses the intended result: ‘so that darkness might not overtake you’. The subject skotia precedes the object humas, giving rhetorical weight to the threatening agent, while the aorist subjunctive katalabē presents the overtaking as a decisive possibility to be avoided. A middle dot again separates this clause from the following generalizing statement.
In context — John 12:35
Then Jesus said to them, “Yet a little while longer the Light is among you. Walk while you have the Light , so that darkness will not overtake you. And the one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.”
About this coordinate
John 12:35:23 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 23 of John 12:35, so the Greek word καταλάβῃ (katalabêi) 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.12.35.W23, which extends further down to each syllable (John.12.35.W23.S1) and character.