Luke 20:5:14Luke.20.5.W14TAB
τί
ti
“what”
- Transliteration
- TI
- Extended
- TIH
- IPA
- /ˈti/
Meaning by language
- English
- what
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
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TI
- sentence
hoi DE sy-ne-lo-GI-san-to pros he-au-TOUS LE-gon-tes HO-ti e-AN EI-pô-men eks ou-ra-NOU e-REI di-A TI ouk e-pi-STEÜ-sa-te au-TOI
Exegesis
The direct question Διὰ τί οὐκ ἐπιστεύσατε αὐτῷ {Διὰ τί οὐκ ἐπιστεύσατε αὐτῷ | Dià tí ouk e-pi-steú-sa-te au-tô} is formed by the preposition διὰ with the interrogative τί functioning idiomatically as “why,” followed by the aorist indicative ἐπιστεύσατε and the dative αὐτῷ as the indirect object “him.” Syntactically, the verse presents layered speech: narrator description, then the leaders’ inner speech, then Jesus’ anticipated question, all of which is rendered by preserving the conditional structure, maintaining future reference in “He will say,” and capturing the rhetorical force of the reproachful “Why did you not believe him?”
Root and etymology
baptizōbeta–alpha–pi–tau–iota–zeta–omega
“to immerse, submerge”
In context — Luke 20:5
But they reasoned among themselves, saying, “If we should say, ‘From heaven,’ He will say, ‘Why did you not believe him?’”
About this coordinate
Luke 20:5:14 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 14 of Luke 20:5, so the Greek word τί (ti) 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.20.5.W14, which extends further down to each syllable (Luke.20.5.W14.S1) and character.