John 9:19:4John.9.19.W4TAB
λέγοντες
legontes
“saying”
- Transliteration
- LE-gon-tes
- Extended
- LEH-gohn-tehs
- IPA
- /ˈle.gon.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- saying
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
LE-gon-tes
- sentence
KAI ê-RÔ-tê-san au-TOUS LE-gon-tes HOO-TOS es-TIN HO HY-OS HY-MÔN HON HY-MEIS LE-ge-te HO-ti ty-PHLOS e-ge-NNÊ-thê PÔS OUN BLE-pei AR-ti
Exegesis
The aorist verb erotesan {ἠρώτησαν | ē-rṓ-tē-san} ‘they asked’ reports the completed act of questioning, while the participle legontes {λέγοντες | lé-gon-tes} ‘saying’ introduces the direct speech in a standard Greek reporting pattern.
In context — John 9:19
And they asked them, saying, “This is your son , the one you say was blind from birth? How is it, then, that he sees now?”
About this coordinate
John 9:19:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of John 9:19, so the Greek word λέγοντες (legontes) 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.9.19.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (John.9.19.W4.S1) and character.