Mark 14:30:19Mark.14.30.W19TAB
φωνῆσαι
phōnêsai
“to crow”
- Transliteration
- phō-NÊ-sai
- Extended
- phô-NÊÊ-sai
- IPA
- /pʰɔːˈnɛː.sai/
Meaning by language
- English
- to crow
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Phi | ph — as in phone (f) | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
phō-NÊ-sai
- sentence
KAI LE-gei au-TO ho ee-ay-SOOS a-MEN LE-gō soi HO-ti SY SÊ-me-ron TAU-tēi tēi nyk-TI prin hē dis a-LEK-to-ra phō-NÊ-sai tris me a-par-NÊ-sēi
Exegesis
The subordinate temporal clause prin ē dis alektora phōnēsai {πρὶν ἢ δὶς ἀλέκτορα φωνῆσαι | prìn ḕ dìs a-lék-to-ra phō-nê-sai} uses prin with the conjunction ē plus an aorist infinitive to mark a limit point “before a rooster has crowed twice,” with dis and tris {τρίς | trís} adding numerical specificity to both the crowing and the denials.
In context — Mark 14:30
And Jesus said to him, “Truly I say to you that you, today, in this very night, before a rooster crows twice, will deny Me three times.”
About this coordinate
Mark 14:30:19 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 19 of Mark 14:30, so the Greek word φωνῆσαι (phōnêsai) 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.14.30.W19, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.14.30.W19.S1) and character.