Matthew 19:23:17Matt.19.23.W17TAB
βασιλείαν
basileian
“kingdom”
- Transliteration
- ba-si-LEI-an
- Extended
- bah-sih-LEI-ahn
- IPA
- /ba.si.ˈliː.an/
Meaning by language
- English
- kingdom
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Alphabet Analysis
| Beta | v — as in victory | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Sigma | s — as in sit | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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The word
Word in context
- word
ba-si-LEI-an
- clause
a-MÊN LE-gô hy-MEEN HO-ti PLOO-si-os dys-KO-lôs ei-se-LEU-se-tai eis TÊN ba-si-LEI-an TÔN oo-ra-NÔN
- sentence
ho DE ee-ay-SOOS EI-pen TOIS ma-thê-TAIS au-TOO a-MÊN LE-gô hy-MEEN HO-ti PLOO-si-os dys-KO-lôs ei-se-LEU-se-tai eis TÊN ba-si-LEI-an TÔN oo-ra-NÔN
Exegesis
The prepositional phrase eis ten basileian ton ouranon {εἰς τὴν βασιλείαν τῶν οὐρανῶν | eis tēn basileían tōn ouranōn} expresses the goal of the entering, with the genitive plural ‘of the heavens’ characterizing the kingdom as belonging to the heavenly sphere. In translation, the content clause is rendered with an explicit “that” in formal English to mirror hoti, while in the dynamic rendering the clause is restructured as “it is hard for a wealthy person to get into” to capture the semantic force of the adverb and to foreground the difficulty. The idiomatic Matthean expression ‘kingdom of the heavens’ is preserved in the more literal rendering and slightly smoothed to ‘kingdom of heaven’ in the dynamic version for natural English usage, while still indicating a transcendent divine realm.
Root and etymology
basileusbeta alpha sigma iota lambda epsilon upsilon sigma
“king, ruler”
In context — Matthew 19:23
But Jesus said to His disciples, “Truly , I say to you that a rich person will enter into the kingdom of the heavens with difficulty.”
About this coordinate
Matthew 19:23:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Matthew 19:23, so the Greek word βασιλείαν (basileian) 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.19.23.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.19.23.W17.S1) and character.