ὁ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ὁ

   ho

   {the}
2. sentence🔊 Ἀπεκρίνατο οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς Ἀμὴν ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν οὐ δύναται ὁ υἱὸς ποιεῖν ἀφ᾽ ἑαυτοῦ οὐδὲν ἐὰν μὴ τι βλέπῃ τὸν πατέρα ποιοῦντα ὃ γὰρ ἂν ἐκεῖνος ποιῇ ταῦτα καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ὁμοίως ποιεῖ

   a-pe-KRI-na-to OUN ho ee-ay-SOOS KAI E-le-gen au-TOIS a-MÊN a-MÊN LE-gō hy-MIN ou DY-na-tai ho hyi-OS poi-EIN aph he-au-TOU ou-DEN e-AN MÊ ti BLE-PÊ ton pa-TE-ra poi-OUN-ta HO GAR AN e-KEI-nos poi-Ê TAU-ta KAI ho hyi-OS ho-MOI-ōs poi-EI

   therefore {the} Jesus {He} answered and {He} was saying to them truly truly I say to you {the} son not {He} is able to do nothing from himself if not anything he sees {the} father doing for what ever that one does and {the} son does these things likewise

Exegesis

The subject ho Iesous {ὁ Ἰησοῦς | ho Iē-soûs} is followed by eipen {εἶπεν | eî-pen} ‘he said’, introducing direct discourse.

The following clause, introduced by ho gar an {ὃ γὰρ ἂν | ho gar an}, forms a generic-relative construction: ‘for whatever that One does’, where ekeinos {ἐκεῖνος | e-kei-nos} points back to the Father. The correlative structure ho gar an ekeinos poiei …

tauta kai ho huios homoios poiei {ὃ γὰρ ἂν ἐκεῖνος ποιῇ, ταῦτα καὶ ὁ υἱὸς ὁμοίως ποιεῖ | ho gar an e-kei-nos poi-ḗ, taú-ta kai ho hy-iós ho-moí-ōs poi-eî} creates a tight parallelism: the very things (tauta) that the Father does, the Son likewise (homoios) does. This syntactic mirroring in Greek underscores the perfect correspondence of action between Father and Son, which the translations render by pairing “whatever … these also” and “in the same way / just like Him” to preserve both dependence and equality of work.

Root and etymology

Iesous🔊 Ἰησοῦςiota–eta–sigma–omicron–upsilon–sigma

“Yahweh is salvation”