John 6:21:7John.6.21.W7TAB
πλοῖον
ploion
“boat”
- Transliteration
- PLOI-on
- Extended
- PLOI-oh-n
- IPA
- /ˈploi.on/
Meaning by language
- English
- boat
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
PLOI-on
- sentence
Ê-the-lon OUN la-BEIN au-TON eis to PLOI-on kai eu-THE-ôs e-GHE-ne-to to PLOI-on e-PI tês gês eis hên hy-PEE-gon
Exegesis
The infinitive labein {λαβεῖν | la-beîn} ‘to receive’ with the object auton {αὐτὸν | au-tón} forms a complementary construction expressing what they were willing to do, while the prepositional phrase eis to ploion {εἰς τὸ πλοῖον | eis tó ploî-on} specifies the goal of that reception.
The verb egeneto {ἐγένετο | e-gé-ne-to} functions intransitively, followed by a nominative subject to ploion {τὸ πλοῖον | tó ploî-on}, yielding the idiom ‘the boat came to be upon the land.’
Root and etymology
pleoplé-ō | pi–lambda–epsilon–omega
“to sail, travel by sea”
In context — John 6:21
Therefore they were willing to receive Him into the boat , and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.
About this coordinate
John 6:21:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of John 6:21, so the Greek word πλοῖον (ploion) 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.6.21.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (John.6.21.W7.S1) and character.