τὰ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τὰ

   ta

   the
2. sentence🔊 καὶ προβὰς ὀλίγον εἶδεν Ἰάκωβον τὸν τοῦ Ζεβεδαίου καὶ Ἰωάννην τὸν ἀδελφὸν αὐτοῦ καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ καταρτίζοντας τὰ δίκτυα

   KAI pro-BAS o-LI-gon EI-den i-A-kō-bon ton tou ze-be-da-I-ou KAI i-ō-AN-nēn ton a-del-PHON au-TOU KAI au-TOUS en tōi PLOI-ōi ka-tar-TI-dzon-tas ta DIK-ty-a

   and going on a little he saw James the of the Zebedee and John the brother his and them in the boat mending the nets

Exegesis

The additional accusative pronoun autous {αὐτοὺς | autoús} resumes James and John collectively as the object of eiden in the subsequent circumstance phrase autous en tō ploiō katartizontas ta diktya {αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ καταρτίζοντας τὰ δίκτυα | autoús en tôi ploíō katartízontas tà díktya}, where the present participle katartizontas {καταρτίζοντας | katartízontas} ‘mending’ depicts ongoing action contemporaneous with the seeing.

The prepositional phrase en tō ploiō {ἐν τῷ πλοίῳ | en tôi ploíō} locates the action spatially, and ta diktya {τὰ δίκτυα | tà díktya} specifies the object of their work. In translation, the sequence of movement, perception, identification, and activity is preserved, while the participial construction with autous is rendered as a finite clause (“they were in the boat, mending/fixing the nets”) to maintain natural English narrative flow.

Root and etymology

Root🔊 καταρτίζωkappa–alpha–tau–alpha–rho–tau–iota–zeta–omega

“to restore, repair, make ready”

• 🔊 καταρτίζονταςkatartízontasmendingMatthew 4:21
• 🔊 καταρτίζετεkatartízeterestoreGalatians 6:1