Matthew 23:15:21Matt.23.15.W21TAB
αὐτὸν
auton
“him”
- Transliteration
- au-TON
- Extended
- au-TOHN
- IPA
- /auˈton/
Meaning by language
- English
- him
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Alphabet Analysis
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
au-TON
- phraseyour reading level
kai HO-tan YE-nê-tai poi-EI-te au-TON hy-ON ye-EN-nês di-PLO-te-ron hy-MÔN
- sentence
oo-AI hy-MEEN gram-ma-TEIS kai pha-ri-SAI-oi hy-po-kri-TAI HO-ti pe-ri-A-ye-te tên THA-las-san kai tên ksê-RAN poi-Ê-sai HE-na pro-SÊ-ly-ton kai HO-tan YE-nê-tai poi-EI-te au-TON hy-ON ye-EN-nês di-PLO-te-ron hy-MÔN
Exegesis
The main clause poieite auton huion geennes diploteron hymon {ποιεῖτε αὐτὸν υἱὸν γεέννης διπλότερον ὑμῶν | poi-eî-te au-tón hy-i-ón ge-én-nēs di-pló-te-ron hy-môn} presents a resultative action: the repeated poieite echoes poiesai, forming an ironic parallel (“to make” a convert yet “you make” him worse). The Semitic-style construct huion geennes portrays character and destiny (“son of Gehenna”), intensified by the comparative diploteron with the genitive hymon, “twice as much as you,” which sharpens the condemnation. In translation, the causal and temporal clauses are preserved, the merism “sea and land” is rendered with natural English order, and the idiomatic “son of Gehenna” is maintained while its sense is clarified through careful word choice and structure.
In context — Matthew 23:15
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you travel across sea and land to make one proselyte , and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
About this coordinate
Matthew 23:15:21 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 21 of Matthew 23:15, so the Greek word αὐτὸν (auton) 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.23.15.W21, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.23.15.W21.S1) and character.