John 4:22:12John.4.22.W12TAB
σωτηρία
sôtêria
“salvation”
- Transliteration
- sô-tê-RI-a
- Extended
- sô-tê-RI-a
- IPA
- /sɔː.tɛːˈri.a/
Meaning by language
- English
- salvation
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Alphabet Analysis
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father |
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Word in context
- word
sô-tê-RI-a
- sentence
hy-MEIS pro-sky-NEI-te HO ouk OI-da-te hê-MEIS pro-sky-NOO-men HO OI-da-men HO-ti hê sô-tê-RI-a ek TÔN i-ou-dAI-on es-TIN
Exegesis
The conjunction hoti {ὅτι | ho-ti} introduces a causal clause explaining the Jewish claim to informed worship: he soteria ek ton Ioudaiōn estin {ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν | hē sō-tē-rí-a ek tōn I-ou-dai-ōn es-tín}. Here, the nominative subject he soteria ‘the salvation’ is linked by the copula estin ‘is’ to the prepositional phrase ek ton Ioudaiōn, where ek plus the genitive expresses origin or source. The phrase thus asserts that salvation has its historical and covenantal source within the Jewish people, implicitly through God’s promises and the Messiah arising from them. In translation, the parallelism of the two main clauses is preserved by repeating “You worship … we worship …,” while the causal hoti-clause is rendered with “because” and “since” to show explanation rather than mere content. The neuter relative ho is translated as “what” to keep the focus on the object of worship rather than on a specific named deity, matching the Greek’s more general formulation.
Root and etymology
sotersigma–omega–tau–eta–rho
“deliverer, rescuer”
In context — John 4:22
You worship what you do not know; we worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews .
About this coordinate
John 4:22:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of John 4:22, so the Greek word σωτηρία (sôtêria) 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.4.22.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (John.4.22.W12.S1) and character.