Mark 13:17:5Mark.13.17.W5TAB

γαστρὶ

gastri

womb

Transliteration
gas-TRI
Extended
gahs-TRIH
IPA
/gasˈtri/

Meaning by language

English
womb

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Result
γασ + τρὶ
gas + tri
gastri

Alphabet Analysis

Gammagh — guttural
Alphaah — as in father
Sigmas — as in sit
Taut — as in top
Rhor — rolled r
Iotai — as in machine

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Word in context

  1. word

    gas-TRI

  2. 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.”

Root and etymology

gastergamma–alpha–sigma–tau–eta–rho

stomach, womb

In contextMark 13:17

But woe to the women who are with child and to those nursing in those days !

About this coordinate

Mark 13:17:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Mark 13:17, so the Greek word γαστρὶ (gastri) 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.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.13.17.W5.S1) and character.