John 5:46:12John.5.46.W12TAB
ἔγραψεν
egrapsen
“wrote”
- Transliteration
- E-gra-psen
- Extended
- EH-grah-psehn
- IPA
- /ˈe.gra.psen/
Meaning by language
- English
- wrote
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Psi | ps — as in lips | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
E-gra-psen
- sentence
EI GAR e-pi-STEU-e-te Mô-y-SEI e-pi-STEU-e-te AN e-MOI pe-RI GAR e-MOO e-KEI-nos E-gra-psen
Exegesis
The demonstrative subject ekeinos {ἐκεῖνος | e-KEI-nos} is emphatic, pointing back to Moses as “that one,” and is followed by the aorist egrapsen {ἔγραψεν | E-gra-psen}, which summarizes his past, completed act of writing as authoritative testimony. Syntactically, the verse binds the authority of Moses’ writings to the necessity of faith in Jesus, so the English renderings mirror the Greek second-class conditional structure with “if you believed… you would believe,” and reflect the causal gar clauses with “for” and “because” to preserve the argumentative flow.
Root and etymology
graphogamma–rho–alpha–phi–omega
“to write, inscribe”
In context — John 5:46
For if you believed Moses , you would believe Me ; for that one wrote about Me.
About this coordinate
John 5:46:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of John 5:46, so the Greek word ἔγραψεν (egrapsen) 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.5.46.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (John.5.46.W12.S1) and character.