Matthew 14:31:16Matt.14.31.W16TAB
ἐδίστασας;
edistasas
“did you doubt”
- Transliteration
- e-DI-sta-sas
- Extended
- eh-DI-stah-sahs
- IPA
- /e.ˈdi.sta.sas/
Meaning by language
- English
- did you doubt
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
- word
e-DI-sta-sas
- phraseyour reading level
EIS TI e-DI-sta-sas
- clause
o-li-GO-pis-te EIS TI e-DI-sta-sas
- sentence
eu-THE-ôs DE HO ee-ay-SOOS ek-TEI-nas TÊN KHEI-ra e-pe-LA-be-to au-TOO KAI LE-yei au-TÔ o-li-GO-pis-te EIS TI e-DI-sta-sas
Exegesis
The question eis ti {εἰς τί | eis tí} ‘for what purpose/why’ governs the aorist indicative edistasas {ἐδίστασας | e-dís-ta-sas} ‘did you doubt’, conveying a probing inquiry into Peter’s momentary hesitation. The translation retains the participle-verb sequence as consecutive actions, preserves the historical present in the formal version for vividness while shifting to past in the dynamic version for natural flow, and renders the interrogative structure idiomatically as “for what reason” and “why” respectively.
Root and etymology
distazōdelta–iota–sigma–tau–alpha–zeta–omega
“to doubt, waver”
In context — Matthew 14:31
And immediately Jesus stretched out His hand and took hold of him, and He says to him, “You of little faith , for what reason did you doubt?”
About this coordinate
Matthew 14:31:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Matthew 14:31, so the Greek word ἐδίστασας; (edistasas) 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 Matt.14.31.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.14.31.W16.S1) and character.