ἐκ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἐκ

   ek

   from
2. sentence🔊 ὑμεῖς προσκυνεῖτε ὃ οὐκ οἴδατε ἡμεῖς προσκυνοῦμεν ὃ οἴδαμεν ὅτι ἡ σωτηρία ἐκ τῶν Ἰουδαίων ἐστίν

   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

   you {pl.} you worship what not you know we we worship what we know that {the} salvation from {the} Jews is

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

apokrinō🔊 ἀποκρίνωalpha–pi–omicron–kappa–rho–iota–nu–omega

“to separate, decide, answer”

• 🔊 ἀπόκρισιςa-pó-kri-sisanswer, responseActs 3:12