ἐστὶν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἐστὶν

   es-TIN

   it is
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 καθὼς ἔθος ἐστὶν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἐνταφιάζειν.

   ka-THÔS E-thos es-TIN TOIS i-ou-DAI-ois en-ta-PHI-A-zein

   as custom it is for the Jews to bury
3. sentence🔊 ἔλαβον οὖν τὸ σῶμα τοῦ Ἰησοῦ καὶ ἔδησαν ⸀αὐτὸ ὀθονίοις μετὰ τῶν ἀρωμάτων, καθὼς ἔθος ἐστὶν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἐνταφιάζειν.

   E-la-bon OON TO SÔ-ma TOU ee-ay-SOO KAI E-DÊ-san au-TO o-tho-NI-ois me-TA TÔN a-rô-MA-tōn ka-THÔS E-thos es-TIN TOIS i-ou-DAI-ois en-ta-PHI-A-zein

   therefore they took the body of {the} Jesus and they bound it linen cloths with the spices as custom it is for the Jews to bury

Exegesis

The comparative conjunction kathos {καθὼς | ka-thôs} introduces a dependent explanatory clause: ethos estin tois Ioudaiois entaphiazein {ἔθος ἐστὶν τοῖς Ἰουδαίοις ἐνταφιάζειν | é-thos e-stìn toîs I-ou-daí-ois en-ta-phi-á-zein} ‘it is the custom for the Jews to bury’. Here ethos functions as the subject, estin as the copular verb, tois Ioudaiois as a dative of reference (‘for the Jews’), and entaphiazein as an infinitive of customary action that specifies what the custom entails. In translation, the two coordinated aorist verbs are rendered with simple past tense verbs, and the kathos-clause is expressed as “just as it is the custom …” or “following the burial custom …” to preserve the sense that the burial actions conform to established Jewish practice while maintaining clear English clause structure.