Mark 11:17:23Mark.11.17.W23TAB
λῃστῶν
lêstôn
“of robbers”
- Transliteration
- lê-STÔN
- Extended
- lê-STÔN
- IPA
- /lɛːsˈtɔːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- of robbers
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Alphabet Analysis
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
lê-STÔN
- sentence
kai e-DI-das-ken kai E-le-gen au-TOIS ou GE-grap-tai HO-ti ho OI-kos mou OI-kos pro-seu-KHÊS klê-THÊ-se-tai PA-sin tois ETH-ne-sin hy-MEIS de pe-poi-Ê-ka-te au-TON SPÊ-lai-on lê-STÔN
Exegesis
The perfect verb pepoiekate {πεποιήκατε | pe-poi-ḗ-ka-te} ‘you have made’ highlights a completed action, and the object complement auton spelaion leistōn {αὐτὸν σπήλαιον λῃστῶν | au-tón spḗ-lai-on lēi-stōn} ‘it a cave of robbers’ echoes the prophetic indictment in Jeremiah 7:11, intensifying the temple corruption critique.
In context — Mark 11:17
And He was teaching and saying to them, “Has it not been written, ‘My house shall be called a house of prayer for all the nations ’? But you have made it a den of robbers.”
About this coordinate
Mark 11:17:23 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 23 of Mark 11:17, so the Greek word λῃστῶν (lêstôn) 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 Mark.11.17.W23, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.11.17.W23.S1) and character.