ἐν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἐν

   en

   in
2. sentence🔊 Καὶ ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ ἔλεγεν Βλέπετε ἀπὸ τῶν γραμματέων τῶν θελόντων ἐν στολαῖς περιπατεῖν καὶ ἀσπασμοὺς ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς

   KAI en tê di-da-KHÊ au-TOU E-le-gen BLE-pe-te a-PO tôn gram-ma-TE-ôn tôn the-LON-tôn en sto-LAIS pe-ri-pa-TEIN KAI a-spas-MOUS en tais a-go-RAIS

   and in the teaching of him he was saying beware from the scribes the wanting in robes to walk and greetings in the marketplaces

Exegesis

The verse opens with the prepositional phrase kai en tē didachē autou {Καὶ ἐν τῇ διδαχῇ αὐτοῦ | Kaì en tê di-da-khê au-toû} “and in His teaching,” which situates the warning within Jesus’ public instruction and functions as a temporal and contextual frame.

This object is further specified by the genitive participial phrase tōn thelontōn en stolais peripatein {τῶν θελόντων ἐν στολαῖς περιπατεῖν | tōn the-lón-tōn en sto-laîs pe-ri-pa-teîn} “those who desire to walk about in robes,” where thelontōn presents their desire as a continuing disposition and the infinitive peripatein expresses the content of that desire.

The coordinated phrase kai aspasmous en tais agorais {καὶ ἀσπασμοὺς ἐν ταῖς ἀγοραῖς | kaí as-pas-moús en taîs a-go-raîs} adds a second object of their longing, “greetings in the marketplaces,” forming a balanced description of external display (robes) and social honor (greetings). In English, the participial genitive is rendered as a relative clause (“those who desire”) to clarify the relationship to “scribes,” while retaining the repeated preposition “in” to preserve the spatial nuance of their ostentatious behavior.

Root and etymology

apostellō🔊 ἀποστέλλωalpha pi omicron sigma tau epsilon lambda lambda omicron omega

“to send off, dispatch”

• 🔊 ἀπόστολοςa-pó-sto-lossent one, messengerLuke 6:13