Mark 4:8:7Mark.4.8.W7TAB
τὴν
tēn
“the”
- Transliteration
- tēn
- Extended
- têhn
- IPA
- /tɛːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- the
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
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tēn
- 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.
In context — Mark 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 4:8:7 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 7 of Mark 4:8, so the Greek word τὴν (tēn) 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.W7, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.4.8.W7.S1) and character.