John 8:4:11John.8.4.W11TAB
μοιχευομένη
moikheuomenê
“committing adultery”
- Transliteration
- moi-kheu-o-ME-nê
- Extended
- moi-kheu-oh-MEH-nay
- IPA
- /moi̯.kʰeu̯.oˈme.nɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- committing adultery
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Alphabet Analysis
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Chi | h/kh — like Bach | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
moi-kheu-o-ME-nê
- sentence
LE-gou-sin au-TOI pei-RA-dzon-tes di-DAS-ka-le HAU-tê hê gy-NÊ ka-te-LÊPH-thê ep au-to-PHO-rôi moi-kheu-o-ME-nê
Exegesis
The participle moicheuomenē {μοιχευομένη | moi-kheu-o-me-nḗ} is a circumstantial participle explaining what she was doing when caught, thus tightly linking the accusation to the legal formula. In translation, the historic present is rendered with present or simple past forms for natural English narrative, the participial peirazontes is expressed as a finite clause “testing” or “trying to trap Him,” and the idiomatic legal phrase ep autophorō is conveyed by “in the very act” / “right in the act” to preserve its forensic force.
In context — John 8:4
They say to Him , testing , “Teacher, this woman was caught in the very act of committing adultery.”
About this coordinate
John 8:4:11 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 11 of John 8:4, so the Greek word μοιχευομένη (moikheuomenê) 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.8.4.W11, which extends further down to each syllable (John.8.4.W11.S1) and character.