διʼ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 διʼ

   di

   through
2. sentence🔊 ὅτι ὁ μὲν υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου ὑπάγει καθὼς γέγραπται περὶ αὐτοῦ οὐαὶ δὲ τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐκείνῳ διʼ οὗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται καλὸν αὐτῷ εἰ οὐκ ἐγεννήθη ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖνος

   HO-ti ho MEN hy-OS tou an-THRŌ-pou hy-PA-gei ka-THŌS GE-gra-ptai pe-RI au-TOU ou-AI de tōi an-THRŌ-pōi e-KEI-nōi di hou ho hy-OS tou an-THRŌ-pou pa-ra-DI-do-tai ka-LON au-TŌi ei ouk e-ge-NNÊ-thē ho AN-thrō-pos e-KEI-nos

   for the indeed son of the man goes just as it has been written about him woe but to the man that through whom the son of the man is betrayed good for him if not he was born the man that

Exegesis

The relative clause di hou ho huios tou anthropou paradidotai {διʼ οὗ ὁ υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου παραδίδοται | di' hoû ho huï-ós tou anth-rṓ-pou pa-ra-dí-do-tai} further defines that man as the channel ‘through whom’ the Son of Man ‘is being betrayed’, with the present passive paradidotai highlighting the unfolding act and maintaining focus on the Son of Man as the one handed over.

Root and etymology

paradidōmi🔊 παραδίδωμιpi–alpha–rho–alpha–delta–iota–delta–omega–mu–iota

“to hand over, deliver up, betray”

• 🔊 παρέδωκενparedōkenhe handed overRomans 4:25
• 🔊 παραδόσειςparadoseistraditions handed downMark 7:3