John 4:21:14John.4.21.W14TAB
τῷ
tôi
“{the}”
- Transliteration
- tôi
- Extended
- TOI
- IPA
- /tɔːi/
Meaning by language
- English
- {the}
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron |
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Word in context
- word
tôi
- sentence
LE-gei au-TÊI ho ee-ay-SOOS PI-steu-e moi GY-nai HO-ti ER-khe-tai HÔ-ra HO-te OO-te en tôi O-rei TOU-toi OO-te en hi-e-ro-so-LY-mois pros-ky-NÊ-se-te tôi pa-TRI
Exegesis
Within this clause, the correlative pair oute…oute {οὔτε…οὔτε | oú-te…oú-te} governs two parallel prepositional phrases: en tō orei toutō {ἐν τῷ ὄρει τούτῳ | en tô ó-rei toú-tō} and en Hierosolymois {ἐν Ἱεροσολύμοις | en Hi-e-ro-so-lý-mois}. This parallelism underscores that neither the Samaritan sacred mountain nor Jerusalem will function as the defining locus of worship.
The dative phrase tō patri {τῷ πατρί | tô pa-trí} is the dative of indirect object with proskynēsete, specifying “the Father” as the One being worshiped and highlighting a relational, familial designation for God. In translation, the historical present is rendered with a simple past (“said” / “told”) for natural English narrative flow, while the future indicative is preserved as “will worship” to maintain the predictive force and the structural “neither…nor” construction is kept to mirror the emphatic exclusion in Greek.
In context — John 4:21
Jesus said to her, “Woman, believe Me, the hour is coming when neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem will you worship the Father .”
About this coordinate
John 4:21:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of John 4:21, so the Greek word τῷ (tôi) 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.4.21.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (John.4.21.W14.S1) and character.