Mark 14:50:2Mark.14.50.W2TAB
ἀφέντες
aphentes
“leaving”
- Transliteration
- a-PHEN-tes
- Extended
- ah-PHEN-tehs
- IPA
- /aˈpʰen.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- leaving
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Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Phi | ph — as in phone (f) | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| 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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The word
Word in context
- word
a-PHEN-tes
- sentence
KAI a-PHEN-tes au-TON E-phy-gon PAN-tes
Exegesis
The aorist participle aphentes {ἀφέντες | aphéntes} precedes its object auton {αὐτόν | autón}, forming a circumstantial participial construction that is most naturally taken as temporal and attendant: “after leaving Him” or “when they left Him.” The direct object auton refers back to Jesus as the one abandoned.
Root and etymology
aphiemialpha–phi–iota–eta–mu–iota
“to send away, let go, release, abandon”
In context — Mark 14:50
And after leaving Him , they all fled .
About this coordinate
Mark 14:50:2 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 2 of Mark 14:50, so the Greek word ἀφέντες (aphentes) 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.14.50.W2, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.14.50.W2.S1) and character.