τοῖς

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τοῖς

   tois

   the
2. sentence🔊 καὶ ἔλεγεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς ὅτι Οὐκ ἔστιν προφήτης ἄτιμος εἰ μὴ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τοῖς συγγενεῦσιν αὐτοῦ καὶ ἐν τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ

   KAI E-le-gen au-TOIS ho ee-ay-SOOS HO-ti ouk ES-tin pro-PHÊ-tês A-ti-mos ei mê en têi pa-TRI-di au-TOU KAI en tois syng-ge-NEU-sin au-TOU KAI en têi oi-KI-a au-TOU

   and he was saying to them the Jesus that not is a prophet dishonored if except in the homeland of him and in the relatives of him and in the household of him

Exegesis

The exception construction ei me {εἰ μὴ | eì mē} ‘except’ governs three parallel prepositional phrases, each introduced by en {ἐν | en} ‘in’ plus a dative phrase: tē patridi autou {τῇ πατρίδι αὐτοῦ | tē patrídi autoû} ‘in his homeland’, tois suggeneusin autou {τοῖς συγγενεῦσιν αὐτοῦ | toîs suggenêúsin autoû} ‘among his relatives’, and tē oikia autou {τῇ οἰκίᾳ αὐτοῦ | tē oikíā autoû} ‘in his house’. The repeated structure (en + article + noun + autou) creates rhythmic parallelism and emphasizes concentric circles of familiarity: town, extended kin, and immediate household. This syntactic pattern underlines how increasing social proximity paradoxically coincides with decreasing honor for the prophet, a structure that mirrors Jesus’ own experience in His hometown and informs the choice in the dynamic rendering to express the double negative as an affirmative (“is honored everywhere except”).