John 8:2:16John.8.2.W16TAB
αὐτούς
autous
“them”
- Transliteration
- au-TOUS
- Extended
- au-TOOHS
- IPA
- /auˈtuːs/
Meaning by language
- English
- them
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Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
au-TOUS
- sentence
OR-throu de PA-lin pa-re-GHE-ne-to eis to hi-e-RON KAI PAS ho la-OS ÊR-khe-to KAI ka-THI-sas e-DI-das-ken au-TOUS
Exegesis
The direct object autous {αὐτούς | au-toús} ‘them’ sums up the crowd as the recipients of His teaching. In translation, the formal rendering preserves the participial nuance with “having sat down” and the imperfect with “was teaching,” while the dynamic rendering turns the participle into a temporal clause (“after He sat down”) and expresses the imperfect as “began to teach,” clarifying the sequence of actions while retaining the continuous sense of His instruction.
In context — John 8:2
But at early dawn, He came again into the temple, and all the people were coming, and, having sat down, He was teaching them .
About this coordinate
John 8:2:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of John 8:2, so the Greek word αὐτούς (autous) 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.8.2.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (John.8.2.W16.S1) and character.