Mark 14:1:22Mark.14.1.W22TAB
κρατήσαντες
kratêesantes
“having seized”
- Transliteration
- kra-TÊE-san-tes
- Extended
- krah-TÊE-sahn-tehs
- IPA
- /kraˈtɛː.san.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- having seized
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
kra-TÊE-san-tes
- sentence
ÊN de to PAS-kha KAI ta A-dzy-ma me-TA DY-o hê-ME-ras KAI e-ZÊ-toun hoi ar-khi-e-REIS KAI hoi gram-ma-TEIS PÔS au-TON en DO-lô kra-TÊE-san-tes a-pok-TEI-nô-sin
Exegesis
The aorist participle kratesantes {κρατήσαντες | kra-tḗ-san-tes} and the aorist subjunctive apokteinosin {ἀποκτείνωσιν | a-pok-teí-nō-sin} form an attendant-circumstance construction that links the act of seizing with the purpose of killing, which in English is rendered with a purpose clause (“so they could kill Him”) or with “they might kill Him” to capture the subjunctive nuance.
In context — Mark 14:1
Now the Passover and the Unleavened Bread were two days away, and the chief priests and the scribes were seeking how, by craft, they might seize Him and kill Him.
About this coordinate
Mark 14:1:22 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 22 of Mark 14:1, so the Greek word κρατήσαντες (kratêesantes) 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.14.1.W22, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.14.1.W22.S1) and character.