τῷ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τῷ

   tō

   to the
2. clause🔊 ⸂σπόγγον οὖν μεστὸν τοῦ⸃ ὄξους ⸀ὑσσώπῳ περιθέντες προσήνεγκαν αὐτοῦ τῷ στόματι.

   SPO-ngon OUN me-STON tō OK-soos hys-SO-pō pe-ri-THEN-tes pro-SÊ-neNG-kan au-TOU tō STO-ma-ti

   therefore a sponge full of the sour wine with hyssop having placed around they brought his to the mouth
3. sentence🔊 ⸀σκεῦος ἔκειτο ὄξους μεστόν· ⸂σπόγγον οὖν μεστὸν τοῦ⸃ ὄξους ⸀ὑσσώπῳ περιθέντες προσήνεγκαν αὐτοῦ τῷ στόματι.

   SKEU-os E-kei-to OK-soos me-STON SPO-ngon OUN me-STON tō OK-soos hys-SO-pō pe-ri-THEN-tes pro-SÊ-neNG-kan au-TOU tō STO-ma-ti

   a jar full sour wine was lying there therefore a sponge full of the sour wine with hyssop having placed around they brought his to the mouth

Exegesis

The phrase autou tō stomati {αὐτοῦ τῷ στόματι | au-toû tôi stó-ma-ti} combines the genitive autou ‘of Him’ with the dative stomati ‘to the mouth’, specifying the target of the action as His mouth, with the genitive marking possession and the dative indicating the goal. In English, the participial construction is reshaped into coordinated finite verbs (“placed … and brought” / “put … and lifted”), and the dative of means with hyssop is rendered by a prepositional phrase (“on a hyssop stalk/branch”), preserving the sequence and instruments while conforming to natural subject–verb–object order.

Root and etymology

praitorion🔊 πραιτώριονpi–rho–alpha–iota–tau–omega–rho–iota–omicron–nu

“governor’s residence”

• 🔊 πραιτώριονpraitorionpraetoriumMatthew 27:27