John 6:22:37John.6.22.W37TAB
ἀπῆλθον
apêlthon
“went away”
- Transliteration
- a-PÊL-thon
- Extended
- ah-PÊL-thohn
- IPA
- /aˈpɛːl.tʰon/
Meaning by language
- English
- went away
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Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
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a-PÊL-thon
- sentence
TÊI e-PAU-ri-on ho OKH-los ho he-stê-KÔS PE-ran tês tha-LAS-sês EI-don HO-ti ploi-A-ri-on AL-lo ouk ÊN e-KEI ei MÊ HEN kai HO-ti ou sy-nei-SÊL-then tois ma-thê-TAIS au-TOU ho ee-ay-SOOS eis to PLOI-on al-LA MO-noi hoi ma-thê-TAI au-TOU a-PÊL-thon
Exegesis
The adversative alla {ἀλλὰ | al-lá} introduces a contrasting clause: monoi hoi mathētai autou apēlthon {μόνοι οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ ἀπῆλθον | mó-noi hoi ma-thē-taí au-toû a-pêl-thon} ‘but His disciples went away alone’, with monoi functioning predicatively to stress that only the disciples were in the departing boat. The Greek sentence is cumulative, with coordinated ὅτι-clauses and the final ἀλλά-clause layering observations that set up the mystery of how Jesus later appears on the other side. In translation, the two ὅτι-clauses are rendered as subordinate “that” clauses following “saw/realized,” and the contrastive ἀλλά is preserved with “but,” while word order is slightly adjusted to maintain natural English flow and keep the focus on the crowd’s perception and the contrast between Jesus and His disciples’ movements.
In context — John 6:22
On the next day, the crowd standing on the other side of the sea saw that there was no other little boat there except one, and that Jesus had not entered with His disciples into the boat, but that His disciples had gone away alone.
About this coordinate
John 6:22:37 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 37 of John 6:22, so the Greek word ἀπῆλθον (apêlthon) 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.6.22.W37, which extends further down to each syllable (John.6.22.W37.S1) and character.