ἐὰν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἐὰν

   e-AN

   if
2. sentence🔊 Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν ὅτι πάντα ἀφεθήσεται τοῖς υἱοῖς τῶν ἀνθρώπων τὰ ἁμαρτήματα καὶ αἱ βλασφημίαι ὅσα ἐὰν βλασφημήσωσιν

   a-MEN LE-gō hy-MEEN HO-ti PAN-ta a-phe-THÊ-se-tai tois hy-OIS tôn an-THRÔ-pōn ta ha-mar-TÊ-ma-ta kai hai blas-phē-MI-ai HO-sa e-AN blas-phē-MÊ-sō-sin

   Truly I say to you that all will be forgiven to the sons of the people the sins and the blasphemies whatever if they might blaspheme

Exegesis

These are further qualified by the indefinite relative clause hosa ean blasphemesosin {ὅσα ἐὰν βλασφημήσωσιν | hósa eàn blasphēmḗsōsin}, where hosa generalizes the scope (“whatever things”) and ean with the aorist subjunctive blasphemesosin gives an open, potentially iterative condition (“whenever they might blaspheme”). The formal translation mirrors the idiomatic “sons of men” and preserves the explicit list of “sins” and “blasphemies,” while the dynamic translation recasts the idiom as “people’s” and streamlines the relative clause into “every blasphemy they might commit” to convey the universal range of offenses in natural contemporary English.