Mark 14:16:6Mark.14.16.W6TAB
ἦλθον
êlthon
“they went”
- Transliteration
- ÊL-thon
- Extended
- AYL-thohn
- IPA
- /ˈɛːl.tʰon/
Meaning by language
- English
- they went
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Alphabet Analysis
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
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ÊL-thon
- sentence
KAI ek-SÊL-thon hoi ma-thê-TAI KAI ÊL-thon eis tên PO-lin KAI HEU-ron ka-THÔS EI-pen au-TOIS KAI hê-TOI-ma-san to PAS-kha
Exegesis
The sentence strings together four aorist indicative verbs—exelthon {ἐξῆλθον | exēlthon} ‘went out’, elthon {ἦλθον | ēlthon} ‘came’, heuron {εὗρον | heûron} ‘found’, hetoimasan {ἡτοίμασαν | hētoímasan} ‘prepared’—coordinated by repeated kai {καί | kaí}, producing a rapid narrative sequence of obedient actions.
Root and etymology
erchomaiepsilon–rho–chi–omicron–mu–alpha–iota
“to come, go”
In context — Mark 14:16
And the disciples went out and came into the city, and they found it just as He had said to them, and they prepared the Passover .
About this coordinate
Mark 14:16:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Mark 14:16, so the Greek word ἦλθον (êlthon) 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.14.16.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.14.16.W6.S1) and character.