Mark 4:8:6Mark.4.8.W6TAB

γῆν

gên

ground

Transliteration
GÊN
Extended
GÊHN
IPA
/ˈgɛːn/

Meaning by language

English
ground

Alphabet Analysis

Gammagh — guttural
Etai — as in machine
Nun — as in new

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Word in context

  1. word

    GÊN

  2. sentence

    KAI AL-la E-pe-sen eis tēn GÊN tēn ka-LÊN KAI e-DI-dou kar-PON a-na-BAI-non-ta KAI au-ksa-NO-me-na KAI E-phe-ren HEN tri-A-kon-ta KAI HEN hek-SÊ-kon-ta KAI HEN he-ka-TON

Exegesis

The aorist epesen {ἔπεσεν | é-pe-sen} ‘fell’ denotes completed action into tḕn gê tḕn kalḗn {τὴν γῆν τὴν καλήν | tḕn gê tḕn kalḗn} ‘the good soil,’ where the repeated article plus adjective marks a particular fertile ground.

Root and etymology

gamma–eta

earth, ground

In contextMark 4:8

And other seed fell into the good ground and kept giving fruit , growing up and increasing; and it bore—some thirtyfold , some sixtyfold, and some a hundredfold.

About this coordinate

Mark 4:8:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Mark 4:8, so the Greek word γῆν (gên) 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.4.8.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.4.8.W6.S1) and character.