οὗ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 οὗ

   OO

   when
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 ἕως οὗ ἀπολύσῃ τοὺς ὄχλους.

   HE-ôs OO a-po-LY-sê TOOS OKH-loos

   until when he dismisses the crowds
3. sentence🔊 Καὶ εὐθέως ⸀ἠνάγκασεν τοὺς μαθητὰς ἐμβῆναι ⸀εἰς πλοῖον καὶ προάγειν αὐτὸν εἰς τὸ πέραν, ἕως οὗ ἀπολύσῃ τοὺς ὄχλους.

   KAI eu-THE-ôs ê-NA-ngka-sen TOOS ma-thê-TAS em-BÊ-nai eis PLOI-on KAI pro-A-yein au-TON eis TO PE-ran HE-ôs OO a-po-LY-sê TOOS OKH-loos

   And immediately he compelled the disciples to board into boat and to go before him to the other side until when he dismisses the crowds

Exegesis

The temporal clause heos hou apolyse tous ochlous {ἕως οὗ ἀπολύσῃ τοὺς ὄχλους | héōs hoû apolýsē toús ó-chlous} uses the conjunction heos {ἕως | héōs} plus relative pronoun hou {οὗ | hoû} to introduce a future-oriented subjunctive apolýsē ‘he might dismiss,’ marking the crowd’s dismissal as the endpoint of the disciples’ passage. In translation, the two infinitives are rendered as finite infinitival phrases tied to “compelled” or “required” to preserve both the coercive force of enankasen and the sequence of actions, while the heos hou clause is adapted with “until” or “while” plus a finite verb to capture the temporal dependency naturally in English.

Root and etymology

ochlos🔊 ὄχλοςomicron–chi–lambda–omicron–upsilon–sigma

“crowd, throng”

• 🔊 πλῆθοςplethosmultitudeLuke 5:6