ὁ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ὁ

   ho

   the
2. clause🔊 Ἴδε ὁ βασιλεὺς ὑμῶν.

   EE-de ho ba-si-LEUS hy-MÔN

   Behold your the king
3. sentence🔊 καὶ λέγει τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις· Ἴδε ὁ βασιλεὺς ὑμῶν.

   kai LE-gei tois i-ou-DAI-ois EE-de ho ba-si-LEUS hy-MÔN

   and he says to the Jews Behold your the king

Exegesis

The imperative Ide {Ἴδε | Í-de} functions deictically to draw attention, followed by the nominative phrase ho basileus hymōn {ὁ βασιλεὺς ὑμῶν | ho ba-si-leús hy-môn}, “the king of you,” where the genitive pronoun specifies possession or allegiance. In translation, the two temporal clauses are rendered as sequential background information at the start of the sentence to preserve their scene-setting function, while the historical present legei is converted to a simple past in English in the dynamic rendering for natural narration but retained as “he said” with present-style vividness preserved through punctuation and direct quotation. The imperative Ide is translated with emphatic English imperatives “Behold” and “Look” to maintain its rhetorical force and the ironic emphasis on “your King.”

Root and etymology

Pilatos🔊 Πιλᾶτοςpi–iota–lambda–alpha–tau–omicron–sigma

“Pilate, likely from Latin Pilatus, ‘armed with a javelin’”