αὐτοῦ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτοῦ

   au-TOU

   of him
2. sentence🔊 καὶ ἀπολαβόμενος αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου κατ᾿ ἰδίαν ἔβαλεν τοὺς δακτύλους αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ καὶ πτύσας ἥψατο τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ

   KAI a-po-la-BO-me-nos au-TON a-PO tou O-khlou kat i-DI-a(n) E-ba-len tous dak-TY-lous au-TOU eis ta Ô-ta au-TOU KAI PTY-sas HÊ-psa-to tês GLŌS-sês au-TOU

   and having taken aside him from the crowd according to privately he put the fingers of him into the ears of him and having spat he touched the tongue of him

Exegesis

The main clause centers on ebalen {ἔβαλεν | É-ba-len} ‘he put’, which governs the object phrase tous daktulous autou eis ta ota autou {τοὺς δακτύλους αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ | toús dak-TÚ-lous au-TOÛ eis tà Ô-ta au-TOÛ}, a tightly bound sequence specifying both the instrument (fingers) and the goal (ears) with repeated possessive pronouns marking the man’s body.

The second participial construction ptusas {πτυσάς | pty-SÁS} ‘having spit’ precedes the aorist middle indicative hepsato {ἥψατο | Hḗ-psa-to} ‘he touched’, creating another participle-plus-main-verb chain that narrates a subsequent, distinct gesture: touching the man’s tongue, expressed by the genitive object tes glosses autou {τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ | tês GLÔ-ssēs au-TOÛ}. The repetition of aorist participles followed by aorist indicatives structures the verse as a deliberate series of concrete acts leading toward healing, and the translation preserves this sequence by retaining participial forms in the formal rendering while allowing slightly more idiomatic finite verbs in the dynamic one.