Mark 6:33:17Mark.6.33.W17TAB
προῆλθον
proêlthon
“went ahead of”
- Transliteration
- pro-ÊL-thon
- Extended
- proh-AYL-thohn
- IPA
- /proˈɛːl.tʰon/
Meaning by language
- English
- went ahead of
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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The word
Word in context
- word
pro-ÊL-thon
- sentence
KAI EI-don au-TOUS hy-PA-gon-tas KAI e-PE-gno-san pol-LOI KAI pe-ZÊI a-PO pa-SÔN tÔN PO-le-ōn sy-NE-dra-mon e-KEI KAI pro-ÊL-thon au-TOUS
Exegesis
The deictic adverb ekei {ἐκεῖ | e-keî} “there” marks the destination, while the final aorist proēlthon autous {προῆλθον αὐτούς | pro-ēl-thon au-toús} “they went before them” expresses result: the crowd not only gathers but actually arrives ahead of the ones first seen departing. In translation, the sequence of aorists is rendered with simple past verbs to convey decisive actions, and the fronted phrase “on foot from all the cities” is kept closely tied to “ran together” to preserve the picture of coordinated, determined movement.
Root and etymology
proerchomaipi–rho–omicron–epsilon–rho–chi–omicron–mu–alpha–iota
“to go before, advance”
In context — Mark 6:33
And they saw them leaving, and many recognized them, and on foot from all the cities they ran together there and went ahead of them.
About this coordinate
Mark 6:33:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Mark 6:33, so the Greek word προῆλθον (proêlthon) 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.6.33.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.6.33.W17.S1) and character.