αὐτῶν,

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτῶν,

   au-TÔN

   them
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 ἐὰν γένηταί τινι ἀνθρώπῳ ἑκατὸν πρόβατα καὶ πλανηθῇ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν,

   e-AN YE-nê-tai ti-ni an-THRÔ-pō he-ka-TON PRO-ba-ta KAI pla-nê-THÊ HEN eks au-TÔN

   if man should have some one hundred sheep and one of them should go astray
3. sentence🔊 ἐὰν γένηταί τινι ἀνθρώπῳ ἑκατὸν πρόβατα καὶ πλανηθῇ ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν, οὐχὶ ⸀ἀφήσει τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη ⸀καὶ πορευθεὶς ζητεῖ τὸ πλανώμενον;

   e-AN YE-nê-tai ti-ni an-THRÔ-pō he-ka-TON PRO-ba-ta KAI pla-nê-THÊ HEN eks au-TÔN oo-KHI a-PHÊ-sei TA e-ne-NÊ-kon-ta en-NE-a e-PI TA O-rê KAI po-reu-THEIS zê-TEI TO pla-NÔ-me-non

   if man should have some one hundred sheep and one of them should go astray not he will leave the ninety nine on the mountains and having gone he seeks the straying sheep

Exegesis

The contingency of loss is introduced by the aorist passive subjunctive planēthē {πλανηθῇ | planēthē̂} followed by hen ex autōn {ἓν ἐξ αὐτῶν | hén ex autō̂n}, contrasting the single missing sheep with the flock.