Luke 15:2:8Luke.15.2.W8TAB
γραμματεῖς
grammateis
“scribes”
- Transliteration
- gram-ma-TEIS
- Extended
- grahm-mah-TEIS
- IPA
- /gram.maˈteːs/
Meaning by language
- English
- scribes
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Alphabet Analysis
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
gram-ma-TEIS
- sentence
KAI di-e-GONG-gy-zon HOI te pha-ri-SA-oi KAI HOI gram-ma-TEIS LE-gon-tes HO-ti HOU-tos ha-mar-tō-LOUS pros-DE-khe-tai KAI sy-nes-THI-ei au-TOIS
Exegesis
The correlative construction hoi te Pharisaioi kai hoi grammateis {οἵ τε Φαρισαῖοι καὶ οἱ γραμματεῖς | hoî te Pharisaîoi kaí hoî grammateîs} groups religious opponents with an emphatic “both…and.”
In context — Luke 15:2
And the Pharisees and the scribes were murmuring , saying, “This man welcomes sinners and eats alongside them.”
About this coordinate
Luke 15:2:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Luke 15:2, so the Greek word γραμματεῖς (grammateis) 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.15.2.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Luke.15.2.W8.S1) and character.