Mark 13:19:3Mark.13.19.W3TAB
αἱ
hai
“the”
- Transliteration
- hai
- Extended
- hai
- IPA
- /hai/
Meaning by language
- English
- the
Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
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hai
- sentence
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
Exegesis
The verse begins with the future verb esontai {ἔσονται | ésontai} ‘will be’, followed by the nominative phrase hai hemerai ekeinai {αἱ ἡμέραι ἐκεῖναι | haí hēmérai ekeínai} ‘those days’ as its subject, marking a specific eschatological time frame.
Root and etymology
synteleōsigma–upsilon–nu–tau–epsilon–lambda–epsilon–omega
“to bring to completion, finish”
In context — Mark 13:19
For those days will be a tribulation such as has not occurred from the beginning of the creation which God created until now, and never will be.
About this coordinate
Mark 13:19:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Mark 13:19, so the Greek word αἱ (hai) 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.13.19.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.13.19.W3.S1) and character.