ζητεῖ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ζητεῖ

   zê-TEI

   he seeks
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 οὐχὶ ⸀ἀφήσει τὰ ἐνενήκοντα ἐννέα ἐπὶ τὰ ὄρη ⸀καὶ πορευθεὶς ζητεῖ τὸ πλανώμενον;

   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

   not he will leave the ninety nine on the mountains and having gone he seeks the straying sheep
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 participial sequence poreuthēs zētei {πορευθεὶς ζητεῖ | poreuthéis zēteî} forms a circumstantial clause “having gone, he seeks,” with the present planōmenon {πλανώμενον | planṓmenon} underscoring an ongoing search. English rendering shifts dative possession into possessive verbs and renders participles as finite clauses to maintain clarity while preserving the rhetorical force of the original conditional question.