Mark 13:17:12Mark.13.17.W12TAB
ταῖς
tais
“the”
- Transliteration
- tais
- Extended
- tais
- IPA
- /tais/
Meaning by language
- English
- the
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
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tais
- sentence
ou-AI de tais en gas-TRI e-KHOU-sais kai tais thê-la-DZOU-sais en e-KEI-nais tais hê-ME-rais
Exegesis
The dative feminine plural article tais {ταῖς | taîs} introduces the first group, further specified by the prepositional participial phrase en gastri echousais {ἐν γαστρὶ ἐχούσαις | en gas-trí e-khoú-sais} “having in the womb,” a periphrasis for “pregnant women.”
The second group is parallel: kai tais thelazousais {καὶ ταῖς θηλαζούσαις | kai taîs thē-la-zóu-sais} “and the nursing ones,” again a dative feminine plural participial phrase coordinated with the first, reinforcing the focus on vulnerable women with dependent children.
The temporal prepositional phrase en ekeinais tais hemerais {ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις | en e-keí-nais taîs hē-mé-rais} “in those days” anchors the lament in a particular eschatological period already described in the discourse, with the demonstrative ekeinais giving a deictic, future-distress perspective. In translation, the Greek word order, which foregrounds the lament “woe” and then the indirect objects, is preserved in the formal version for rhetorical effect, while the dynamic version reshapes the sentence into a more typical subject–verb–complement structure (“How terrible it will be…”) to sound natural in contemporary English, yet still keeps the two groups and the temporal phrase tightly linked.
In context — Mark 13:17
But woe to the women who are with child and to those nursing in those days !
About this coordinate
Mark 13:17:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Mark 13:17, so the Greek word ταῖς (tais) 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.13.17.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.13.17.W12.S1) and character.