Matthew 17:24:9Matt.17.24.W9TAB
δίδραχμα
didrakhma
“didrachmas”
- Transliteration
- DI-drakh-ma
- Extended
- DI-drakh-mah
- IPA
- /ˈdi.drakʰ.ma/
Meaning by language
- English
- didrachmas
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Delta | th — as in this | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Chi | h/kh — like Bach | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father |
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The word
Word in context
- word
DI-drakh-ma
- clause
el-THON-tôn DE au-TÔN eis ka-phar-na-OOM pro-SÊL-thon hoi TA DI-drakh-ma lam-BA-non-tes TŌI PE-trōi KAI EI-pan
- sentence
el-THON-tôn DE au-TÔN eis ka-phar-na-OOM pro-SÊL-thon hoi TA DI-drakh-ma lam-BA-non-tes TŌI PE-trōi KAI EI-pan ho di-DA-ska-los hy-MÔN ou te-LEI TA DI-drakh-ma
Exegesis
The aorist indicative proselthon {προσῆλθον | prosḗlthon} ‘they approached’ is the main verb, with its subject expressed by the substantival participle hoi ta didrachma lambanontes {οἱ τὰ δίδραχμα λαμβάνοντες | hoi ta dídrachma lambánontes} ‘the collectors of the two-drachma tax’, identifying the agents.
The direct question ho didaskalos humon ou telei ta didrachma {Ὁ διδάσκαλος ὑμῶν οὐ τελεῖ τὰ δίδραχμα | hô didáskalos humōn ou teleî ta dídrachma} ‘the teacher of you not pays the two-drachma tax’ uses the negative particle ou with telei to form a negative interrogative that expects affirmation of the payment obligation.
Root and etymology
drachmēdrachμē
“drachma, coin”
In context — Matthew 17:24
When they entered Capernaum , the men who collected the two-drachma tax came to Peter and said, “Your teacher pays the two-drachma tax, does He not?”
About this coordinate
Matthew 17:24:9 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 9 of Matthew 17:24, so the Greek word δίδραχμα (didrakhma) 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.17.24.W9, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.17.24.W9.S1) and character.