καὶ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 καὶ

   AI

   and
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 ἐὰν μὴ στραφῆτε καὶ γένησθε ὡς τὰ παιδία,

   e-AN MÊ stra-PHÊ-te AI YE-nê-sthe hôs TA pai-DI-a

   if not you turn and become as the children
3. clause🔊 Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν μὴ στραφῆτε καὶ γένησθε ὡς τὰ παιδία, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν.

   a-MÊN LE-gô hy-MIN e-AN MÊ stra-PHÊ-te AI YE-nê-sthe hôs TA pai-DI-a ou MÊ eis-EL-thê-te eis TÊN ba-si-LEI-an TÔN ou-ra-NÔN

   Truly I say to you if not you turn and become as the children certainly not enter into the kingdom of the heavens
4. sentence🔊 καὶ εἶπεν· Ἀμὴν λέγω ὑμῖν, ἐὰν μὴ στραφῆτε καὶ γένησθε ὡς τὰ παιδία, οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθητε εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν.

   AI EI-pen a-MÊN LE-gô hy-MIN e-AN MÊ stra-PHÊ-te AI YE-nê-sthe hôs TA pai-DI-a ou MÊ eis-EL-thê-te eis TÊN ba-si-LEI-an TÔN ou-ra-NÔN

   {And} he said Truly I say to you if not you turn and become as the children certainly not enter into the kingdom of the heavens

Exegesis

The verse begins with the narrative marker kai eipen {καὶ εἶπεν | kaí eî-pen} introducing direct speech, immediately followed by the emphatic particle Amēn {Ἀμὴν | Amḗn} ‘truly’ that intensifies the ensuing declaration legō hymin {λέγω ὑμῖν | lég-ō hymîn} ‘I say to you.’

The conditional protasis is signaled by ean mē {ἐὰν μὴ | e-an mḗ} ‘if not,’ governing two coordinated aorist subjunctives straphēte kai genēsthe {στραφῆτε καὶ γένησθε | stra-phê-te kaí gé-nē-sthe}, which together denote decisive conversion and transformation.