Mark 2:23:16Mark.2.23.W16TAB
ὁδὸν
hodon
“a way”
- Transliteration
- ho-DON
- Extended
- hoh-DOHN
- IPA
- /hoˈdon/
Meaning by language
- English
- a way
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Alphabet Analysis
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
ho-DON
- sentence
KAI e-GE-ne-to au-TON en tois SAB-ba-sin pa-ra-po-REU-es-thai di-A tôn spo-RI-môn KAI hoi ma-thê-TAI au-TOU ÊR-ksan-to ho-DON poi-EIN TIL-lon-tes tous STA-khy-as
Exegesis
A new clause begins with kai hoi mathetai autou {καὶ οἱ μαθηταὶ αὐτοῦ | kaì hoi mathētai autoû} ‘and His disciples,’ marking the subject for the aorist middle ḗrxanto {ἤρξαντο | ḗrxanto} ‘they began,’ which pairs with the infinitive hodon poieîn {ὁδὸν ποιεῖν | hodòn poieîn} to form a periphrastic construction literalized as ‘to make a way.’ The present participle tíllontes ...
Root and etymology
hodosomicron–delta–omicron–sigma
“way, road, path”
In context — Mark 2:23
And it happened that He went through the grainfields on the Sabbath, and His disciples began, as they went, to pluck the heads of grain.
About this coordinate
Mark 2:23:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Mark 2:23, so the Greek word ὁδὸν (hodon) 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.2.23.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.2.23.W16.S1) and character.