οὐ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 οὐ

   ou

   not
2. sentence🔊 ἔσονται γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι θλῖψις οἵα οὐ γέγονεν τοιαύτη ἀπʼ ἀρχῆς κτίσεως ἣν ἔκτισεν ὁ θεὸς ἕως τοῦ νῦν καὶ οὐ μὴ γένηται

   E-so-ntai gar hai hê-ME-rai e-KEI-nai THLI-psis HOI-a ou GE-go-nen toi-AU-tê ap ar-KHÊS KTI-se-ōs hên EK-ti-sen ho the-OS HE-ōs tou NYN kai ou mê GE-nê-tai

   will be for the days those tribulation such as not has happened such from beginning of creation which created the God until the now and not certainly not may happen

Exegesis

The predicate nominative thlipsis {θλῖψις | thlîpsis} ‘tribulation’ follows, creating the structure ‘those days will be tribulation’, which is then qualified by the relative clause hoia ou gegonen toiaute {οἵα οὐ γέγονεν τοιαύτη | hoía ou gégonen toiaútē} ‘such as has not been such’. This relative construction uses the perfect gégonen to stress that no comparable event has ever yet occurred.

The temporal marker heos tou nyn {ἕως τοῦ νῦν | héōs tou nyn} ‘until now’ completes the backward-looking time span, while the closing clause kai ou me genetai {καὶ οὐ μὴ γένηται | kaí ou mē génētai} employs the strong ou mē + subjunctive construction to deny any future recurrence: ‘and it will certainly not happen’. In English, the clauses are slightly rearranged into a more natural subject–verb–complement order, while preserving the escalating structure: unparalleled tribulation, unmatched from creation’s beginning until the present, and guaranteed never to be repeated.

Root and etymology

Iesous🔊 Ἰησοῦςiota–eta–sigma–omicron–upsilon–sigma

“Yahweh is salvation”

• 🔊 ἸησοῦςIesousJesus, SaviorMatthew 1:21
• 🔊 ἸησοῦςIesousJoshuaHebrews 4:8