John 4:39:19John.4.39.W19TAB
Εἶπέν
eipen
“she said”
- Transliteration
- ei-PEN
- Extended
- ei-PEHN
- IPA
- /ei.ˈpen/
Meaning by language
- English
- she said
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Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
ei-PEN
- sentence
ek de tês PO-le-os e-KEI-nēs pol-LOI e-PI-steu-san eis au-TON tôn sa-ma-ri-TÔN di-A ton LO-gon tês gy-nai-KOS mar-ty-ROU-sēs HO-ti ei-PEN moi PAN-ta HA e-POI-Ê-sa
Exegesis
The conjunction hoti {ὅτι | hó-ti} introduces the content of her testimony in direct speech: Eipen moi panta ha epoiēsa {Εἶπέν μοι πάντα ἃ ἐποίησα | Eî-pen moi pán-ta ha e-poí-ē-sa} ‘He told me all that I did.’ Here the third person verb eipen with the indirect object moi and the object clause panta ha epoiēsa summarizes her encounter with Jesus. In translation, the Greek order—setting → subject → verb of belief → object of belief → causal phrase → reported testimony—has been preserved by keeping “many of the Samaritans” as the explicit subject, using “believed in Him” for eis auton, and rendering the participial phrase with a relative clause “the woman who was bearing witness,” followed by the quoted content of her testimony.
Root and etymology
legōlambda–epsilon–gamma–omega
“to say”
In context — John 4:39
And from that city many of the Samaritans believed in Him because of the word of the woman who was bearing witness, “He told me all that I did.”
About this coordinate
John 4:39:19 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 19 of John 4:39, so the Greek word Εἶπέν (eipen) 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.4.39.W19, which extends further down to each syllable (John.4.39.W19.S1) and character.