Luke 21:24:2Luke.21.24.W2TAB
πεσοῦνται
pesountai
“they will fall”
- Transliteration
- pe-SOUN-tai
- Extended
- peh-SOON-tai
- IPA
- /peˈsuːn.tai/
Meaning by language
- English
- they will fall
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
pe-SOUN-tai
- sentence
KAI pe-SOUN-tai STO-ma-ti ma-KHAI-rês KAI aikh-ma-lō-ti-STHÊ-son-tai eis ta E-thnê PAN-ta KAI ie-rou-sa-LÊM ES-tai pa-tou-ME-nê hy-PO eth-NÔN A-khri hou plê-rō-THÔ-sin kai-ROI eth-NÔN
Exegesis
The opening clause, pesountai stomati machairēs {πεσοῦνται στόματι μαχαίρης | pe-soûn-tai stó-ma-ti ma-khái-rēs} ‘they will fall by the sword,’ uses a future form to project the judgment as certain, while στόματι μαχαίρης is an idiom whose literal wording points to the blade’s edge rather than a mouth in English.
In context — Luke 21:24
And they will fall by the sword , and they will be taken captive into all the nations, and Jerusalem will be trampled by the nations until the times of the nations are fulfilled.
About this coordinate
Luke 21:24:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Luke 21:24, so the Greek word πεσοῦνται (pesountai) 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.21.24.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Luke.21.24.W2.S1) and character.