Matthew 22:7:16Matt.22.7.W16TAB
πόλιν
polin
“city”
- Transliteration
- PO-lin
- Extended
- POH-lin
- IPA
- /ˈpo.lin/
Meaning by language
- English
- city
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Alphabet Analysis
| Pi | p — as in pet | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Lambda | l — as in law | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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PO-lin
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KAI PEMP-sas TA stra-TEU-ma-ta au-TOO a-PÔ-le-sen TOOS pho-NEIS e-KEI-nous KAI TÊN PO-lin au-TÔN e-NE-prê-sen
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HO DE ba-si-LEUS or-YIS-thê KAI PEMP-sas TA stra-TEU-ma-ta au-TOO a-PÔ-le-sen TOOS pho-NEIS e-KEI-nous KAI TÊN PO-lin au-TÔN e-NE-prê-sen
Exegesis
The coordinated aorist active verbs apōlesen {ἀπώλεσεν | apṓ-le-sen} ‘he destroyed’ and enepresen {ἐνέπρησεν | e-nép-rê-sen} ‘he burned’ form a syntactic parallelism that heightens the totality of retributive action, first against the human perpetrators phoneis ekeinous {φονεῖς ἐκείνους | pho-neîs e-keí-nous} and then against their polis autōn {πόλιν αὐτῶν | pó-lin au-tôn}, underscoring corporate responsibility.
In context — Matthew 22:7
The king became angry; he sent out his armies, destroyed those murderers, and burned their city .
About this coordinate
Matthew 22:7:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Matthew 22:7, so the Greek word πόλιν (polin) 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.22.7.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.22.7.W16.S1) and character.