John 2:15:17John.2.15.W17TAB
καὶ
kai
“{and}”
- Transliteration
- KAI
- Extended
- KAI
- IPA
- /ˈkai/
Meaning by language
- English
- {and}
Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
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KAI
- sentence
KAI poi-Ê-sas phra-GEL-li-on ek skhoi-NI-ōn PAN-tas ek-SE-ba-len ek TOU hi-e-ROU TA te PRO-ba-ta KAI TOUS BO-as KAI TÔN kol-ly-bis-TÔN ek-SE-khe-en TA KER-ma-ta KAI TAS tra-PE-dzas a-NES-trep-sen
Exegesis
An appositional phrase te...kai ta probata kai tous boas {τά τε πρόβατα καὶ τοὺς βόας | tá te pró-ba-ta kaí toús bó-as} ‘both the sheep and the oxen’ elaborates who was expelled.
A new action introduced by kai {καί | kaí} shifts to the money changers’ possessions, with the genitive kollybistōn {κολλυβιστῶν | kol-ly-bis-tôn} ‘of the money changers’ attached to ta kermata {τὰ κέρματα | tá kér-ma-ta} ‘the coins’, object of exekheen {ἐξέχεεν | ex-é-khe-en} ‘he poured out’.
The final clause kai tas trapezas anestrepsen {καὶ τὰς τραπέζας ἀνέστρεψεν | kaí tás tra-pé-zas an-és-tre-psen} ‘and he overturned the tables’ completes the triad of forceful actions in vivid sequence. English preserves this aorist chain and maintains explicit actors while reordering the genitive into an English possessive for idiomatic clarity.
In context — John 2:15
And having made a whip of cords, He drove them all out of the temple , both the sheep and the oxen, and He poured out the coins of the money changers and overturned the tables.
About this coordinate
John 2:15:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of John 2:15, so the Greek word καὶ (kai) 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.2.15.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (John.2.15.W17.S1) and character.