Mark 15:35:5Mark.15.35.W5TAB
ἀκούσαντες
akousantes
“having heard”
- Transliteration
- a-KOU-san-tes
- Extended
- ah-KOO-san-tehs
- IPA
- /aˈkuː.san.tes/
Meaning by language
- English
- having heard
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Upsilon | 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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The word
Word in context
- word
a-KOU-san-tes
- clause
KAI TI-nes tôn pa-re-ste-kO-ton a-KOU-san-tes E-le-gon
- sentence
KAI TI-nes tôn pa-re-ste-kO-ton a-KOU-san-tes E-le-gon I-de ê-LI-an phō-NEI
Exegesis
The nominative aorist participle akousantes {ἀκούσαντες | a-koú-san-tes} ‘having heard’ functions adverbially and temporally, modifying tines and forming a circumstantial clause: “when they heard.”
In context — Mark 15:35
And some of those standing by, when they heard, were saying, “Behold, He calls Elijah .”
About this coordinate
Mark 15:35:5 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 5 of Mark 15:35, so the Greek word ἀκούσαντες (akousantes) 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.15.35.W5, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.15.35.W5.S1) and character.