ἡ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἡ

   hê

   the
2. sentence🔊 τότε ἀποκριθεὶς ὁ Ἰησοῦς εἶπεν αὐτῇ Ὦ γύναι μεγάλη σου ἡ πίστις γενηθήτω σοι ὡς θέλεις καὶ ἰάθη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης

   TO-te a-po-kri-THEIS ho ee-ay-SOOS EI-pen au-TEI Ô GY-nai me-GA-lê sou hê PI-stis ge-nê-THÊ-tô soi hôs THE-leis kai i-A-thê hê thy-GA-têr au-TÊS a-PO tês HÔ-ras e-KEI-nês

   then answering the Jesus said to her O woman great your the faith let it be done to you as you desire and was healed the daughter of her from the hour that

Exegesis

The clause megalē sou hē pistis {μεγάλη σου ἡ πίστις | me-gá-lē sou hē pí-stis} is an equative structure in which the predicate adjective megalē “great” stands first for emphasis, followed by the possessive sou “your” and the subject hē pistis “the faith,” producing the forceful commendation “great is your faith.”

The coordinating kai {καὶ | kaí} introduces the result clause iathē hē thygatēr autēs {ἰάθη ἡ θυγάτηρ αὐτῆς | iá-thē hē thu-gá-tēr au-tês} “her daughter was healed,” with apo tēs hōras ekeinēs {ἀπὸ τῆς ὥρας ἐκείνης | a-po tēs hō-ras e-keí-nēs} “from that hour” functioning as a temporal prepositional phrase marking the exact point at which the healing took effect. In translation, the participial construction is rendered with a simple narrative sequence “answered and said/replied,” the fronted adjective megalē is preserved by placing “great” early in the clause, the imperative is expressed either formally as “let it be done” or dynamically as “let it happen,” and the idiom “from that hour” is clarified in one rendering as “from that very hour” to communicate immediacy.

Root and etymology

iaomai🔊 ἰάομαιiota–alpha–omicron–mu–alpha–iota

“to heal, to make whole”

• 🔊 ἴασιςiasishealingActs 4:22