Mark 15:42:8Mark.15.42.W8TAB
ὅ
ho
“which”
- Transliteration
- HO
- Extended
- hoh
- IPA
- /ho/
Meaning by language
- English
- which
Alphabet Analysis
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) |
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Word in context
- word
HO
- phraseyour reading level
HO ES-tin pro-SA-bba-ton
- sentence
KAI Ê-dê op-SI-as ge-no-ME-nês e-PEI ÊN pa-ra-ske-UÊ HO ES-tin pro-SA-bba-ton
Exegesis
The relative clause ho estin prosabbaton {ὅ ἐστιν προσάββατον | hó é-stin prosábbaton} is explanatory, appositional to Paraskeuē, clarifying for readers that this “Preparation” is “the day before the Sabbath.”
Syntactically, the relative pronoun ho {ὅ | hó} has Paraskeuē as its antecedent, while estin {ἐστιν | é-stin} is a present tense that gives a timeless definition (“is”), rather than a purely past description. In translation, the genitive absolute is reshaped into an English temporal clause, and the relative clause is rendered as a parenthetical gloss, preserving the explanatory function while making the Jewish calendrical terms intelligible to contemporary readers.
Root and etymology
sabbatonsigma–alpha–beta–beta–alpha–tau–omicron–nu
“Sabbath, rest day”
In context — Mark 15:42
And when evening had already come, since it was the Preparation , that is, the day before the Sabbath,
About this coordinate
Mark 15:42:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Mark 15:42, so the Greek word ὅ (ho) 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.15.42.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.15.42.W8.S1) and character.