⸀Μηκέτι

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ⸀Μηκέτι

   mê-KE-ti

   No longer
2. clause🔊 ⸀Μηκέτι ἐκ σοῦ καρπὸς γένηται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα·

   mê-KE-ti ek SOO kar-POS YE-nê-tai eis TON ai-Ô-na

   No longer fruit may come from you for the age
3. sentence🔊 καὶ ἰδὼν συκῆν μίαν ἐπὶ τῆς ὁδοῦ ἦλθεν ἐπʼ αὐτήν, καὶ οὐδὲν εὗρεν ἐν αὐτῇ εἰ μὴ φύλλα μόνον, καὶ λέγει αὐτῇ· ⸀Μηκέτι ἐκ σοῦ καρπὸς γένηται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα· καὶ ἐξηράνθη παραχρῆμα ἡ συκῆ.

   KAI i-DÔN sy-KÊN MI-an e-PI TÊS ho-DOO ÊL-then ep au-TÊN KAI oo-DEN EU-ren en au-TÊ ei MÊ PHYL-la MO-non KAI LE-yei au-TÊ mê-KE-ti ek SOO kar-POS YE-nê-tai eis TON ai-Ô-na KAI ek-sê-RAN-thê pa-ra-KHRÊ-ma HÊ sy-KÊ

   And having seen a fig tree by the roadside he came to it and he found nothing on it if not leaves only and he says to it No longer fruit may come from you for the age And the fig tree immediately {It} withered

Exegesis

The narrative sequence elthen {ἦλθεν | ēlthén} ‘he came’ and heuren {εὗρεν | heurén} ‘he found’ marks the search, with ouden {οὐδὲν | ou-dén} ‘nothing’ narrowed by the conditional clause ei me phulla monon {εἰ μὴ φύλλα μόνον | ei mē phú-lla món-on} ‘if not only leaves’.

The main verb legei {λέγει | lé-gei} ‘he says’ introduces a performative declaration using the negative adverb meketi {Μηκέτι | mē-ké-ti} ‘no longer’ with the aorist middle subjunctive genetai {γένηται | gé-nē-tai} in mēketi ek sou karpos genetai eis ton aiona {Μηκέτι ἐκ σοῦ καρπὸς γένηται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα | mē-ké-ti ek sou kar-pós gé-nē-tai eis ton ai-ō-na} ‘May fruit never again come from you into the age’.