Mark 13:24:5Mark.13.24.W5TAB
ἡμέραις
hêmerais
“days”
- Transliteration
- hê-ME-rais
- Extended
- hay-MEH-rais
- IPA
- /hɛːˈme.rais/
Meaning by language
- English
- days
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Alphabet Analysis
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| 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
- word
hê-ME-rais
- sentence
al-LA en e-KEI-nais tais hê-ME-rais me-TA tên THLI-psin e-KEI-nên ho HÊ-li-os sko-ti-STHÊ-se-tai kai hê se-LÊ-nê ou DÔ-sei to PHE-ngos au-TÊS
Exegesis
The temporal prepositional phrase en ekeinais tais hēmerais {ἐν ἐκείναις ταῖς ἡμέραις | en e-keí-nais taîs hē-mé-rais} ‘in those days’ is fronted to set the eschatological timeframe.
Root and etymology
Rooteta mu epsilon rho alpha
“day, daylight”
In context — Mark 13:24
But in those days, after that tribulation , the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light ,
About this coordinate
Mark 13:24:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Mark 13:24, so the Greek word ἡμέραις (hêmerais) 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.13.24.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.13.24.W5.S1) and character.