Mark 5:14:3Mark.5.14.W3TAB

βόσκοντες

boskontes

the ones herding

Transliteration
BOS-kon-tes
Extended
BOHS-kon-tehs
IPA
/ˈbos.kon.tes/

Meaning by language

English
the ones herding

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Result
βόσ + κον + τες
bos + kon + tes
boskontes

Alphabet Analysis

Betav — as in victory
Omicrono — as in omit (short)
Sigmas — as in sit
Kappak — as in kite
Omicrono — as in omit (short)
Nun — as in new
Taut — as in top
Epsilone — as in met (short)
Sigma (final)s — used only at end of words

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Word in context

  1. word

    BOS-kon-tes

  2. sentence

    KAI hoi BOS-kon-tes au-TOUS E-phu-gon KAI a-PEEŋ-gei-lan eis tên PO-lin KAI eis tous a-GROUS KAI ÊL-thon i-DEIN TI es-TIN to ge-go-NOS

Exegesis

The nominative participle boskontes {βόσκοντες | bóskontes} ‘feeding ones’ functions substantively as the subject with autous {αὐτοὺς | autoús} ‘them’ as its object, and the aorist verb ephyugon {ἔφυγον | éphugon} ‘fled’ expresses their initial reaction as a completed past action.

In contextMark 5:14

And those feeding them ran away and reported it in the city and in the countryside . Then people went out to see what had happened.

About this coordinate

Mark 5:14:3 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 3 of Mark 5:14, so the Greek word βόσκοντες (boskontes) 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.5.14.W3, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.5.14.W3.S1) and character.