Luke 14:31:7Luke.14.31.W7TAB
συμβαλεῖν
symbalein
“to engage”
- Transliteration
- sym-ba-LEIN
- Extended
- syhm-bah-LEEN
- IPA
- /sym.baˈleːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- to engage
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Alphabet Analysis
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Beta | v — as in victory | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
sym-ba-LEIN
- sentence
Ê TIS ba-si-LEUS po-reu-O-me-nos he-TE-rô ba-si-LEI sym-ba-LEIN eis PO-le-mon ou-KHI ka-THI-sas PRÔ-ton bou-LEU-se-tai ei dy-na-TOS es-tin en DE-ka khi-li-A-sin hy-pan-TÊ-sai tôi me-TA EI-ko-si khi-li-A-dōn er-kho-ME-nō ep au-TON
Exegesis
The infinitive sumbalein {συμβαλεῖν | sumbaleîn} ‘to meet, to engage’ with the prepositional phrase eis polemon {εἰς πόλεμον | eis pólemon} ‘into war’ expresses the purpose of the journey.
In context — Luke 14:31
Or which king, about to go to war against another king, would not first sit down and deliberate whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
About this coordinate
Luke 14:31:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Luke 14:31, so the Greek word συμβαλεῖν (symbalein) 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 Luke.14.31.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Luke.14.31.W7.S1) and character.