Mark 9:12:6Mark.9.12.W6TAB
μὲν
men
“indeed”
- Transliteration
- men
- Extended
- mehn
- IPA
- /men/
Meaning by language
- English
- indeed
Alphabet Analysis
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
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men
- sentence
ho DE E-phê au-TOIS ê-LEE-as men el-THÔN PRÔ-ton a-po-ka-thi-STA-nei PAN-ta KAI pôs GE-gra-ptai e-PI ton hy-ON tou an-THRÔ-pou HI-na pol-LA PA-thêi KAI ek-sou-de-nê-THÊI
Exegesis
In the address, the nominative Elias {Ἠλίας | Ē-li-ás} ‘Elijah’ with the contrastive particle men {μὲν | mèn} ‘on the one hand’ creates an implicit contrast.
Root and etymology
Rootpi–epsilon–rho–iota–beta–lambda–epsilon–pi–omega
“to look around”
In context — Mark 9:12
And He said to them, “Elijah does come first and restores all things; then why is it written concerning the Son of Man that He must suffer many things and be despised?”
About this coordinate
Mark 9:12:6 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 6 of Mark 9:12, so the Greek word μὲν (men) 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.9.12.W6, which extends further down to each syllable (Mark.9.12.W6.S1) and character.