θανάτου

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 θανάτου

   tha-NA-tou

   of death
2. clause🔊 καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐδὲν ἄξιον θανάτου ἐστὶν πεπραγμένον αὐτῷ·

   kai i-DOU ou-DEN AK-si-on tha-NA-tou es-TIN pe-pra-GME-non au-TOI

   and look nothing worthy of death is having been done to him
3. sentence🔊 ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ Ἡρῴδης, ⸂ἀνέπεμψεν γὰρ αὐτὸν πρὸς ἡμᾶς⸃· καὶ ἰδοὺ οὐδὲν ἄξιον θανάτου ἐστὶν πεπραγμένον αὐτῷ·

   al ou-DE hê-ROH-dês a-NE-pem-psen gar au-TON pros hê-MAS kai i-DOU ou-DEN AK-si-on tha-NA-tou es-TIN pe-pra-GME-non au-TOI

   but not even Herod sent back for him to us and look nothing worthy of death is having been done to him

Exegesis

The clause ouden axion thanatou estin pepragmenon autō {οὐδὲν ἄξιον θανάτου ἐστὶν πεπραγμένον αὐτῷ | ou-dén Áx-ion tha-ná-tou es-tín pe-prag-MÉ-non au-Tṓ} is a periphrastic perfect construction, with estin plus the perfect passive participle pepragmenon presenting a state resulting from completed actions. Ouden serves as a nominal predicate (“nothing”), modified by axion and the genitive thanatou to express “nothing worthy of death.” The dative autō marks the agent in the passive sense (“done by Him”), stressing His innocence with respect to any capital offense. In translation, this periphrastic structure is rendered by a present perfect passive (“has been done”) to preserve the sense of a present, settled judicial verdict based on prior examination.