εἰς

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 εἰς

   eis

   into
2. sentence🔊 καὶ παραγενόμενος ὁ δοῦλος ἀπήγγειλεν τῷ κυρίῳ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα τότε ὀργισθεὶς ὁ οἰκοδεσπότης εἶπεν τῷ δούλῳ αὐτοῦ Ἔξελθε ταχέως εἰς τὰς πλατείας καὶ ῥύμας τῆς πόλεως καὶ τοὺς πτωχοὺς καὶ ἀναπείρους καὶ τυφλοὺς καὶ χωλοὺς εἰσάγαγε ὧδε

   KAI pa-ra-ge-NO-me-nos ho DOU-los a-PEE-ngei-len tôi ky-REE-ôi au-TOU TAU-ta TO-te or-gis-THEIS ho oi-ko-des-PO-tês EI-pen tôi DOU-lôi au-TOU EK-sel-the ta-KHE-ôs eis tas pla-TEI-as KAI RYU-mas tês PO-le-ôs KAI tous ptō-KHOUS KAI a-na-PEI-rous KAI ty-PHLOUS KAI khō-LOUS ei-SA-ga-ge HÔ-de

   and having come the servant reported to the lord his these things then having become angry the master of the house said to the servant his go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city and the poor and crippled and blind and lame bring in here

Exegesis

The directive unfolds through the compound prepositional phrase eis tas plateias kai rhymas tēs poleōs {εἰς τὰς πλατείας καὶ ῥύμας τῆς πόλεως | eis tâs plateías kaì rhúmas tês póleōs}, juxtaposing public ways with narrower passages, and culminates in a series of accusatives—ptochous, anapeirous, typhlous, cholous—that catalog marginalized groups.

Root and etymology

strepho🔊 στρέφωsigma–tau–rho–epsilon–phi–omega

“to turn, change direction”