Matthew 23:25:4Matt.23.25.W4TAB
καὶ
kai
“and”
- Transliteration
- KAI
- Extended
- KAI
- IPA
- /ˈkai/
Meaning by language
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Alphabet Analysis
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Iota | i — as in machine |
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KAI
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gram-ma-TEIS KAI pha-ri-SAI-oi hy-po-kri-TAI
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oo-AI hy-MEEN gram-ma-TEIS KAI pha-ri-SAI-oi hy-po-kri-TAI HO-ti ka-tha-RI-ze-te TO EK-sô-then TOO po-tê-RI-oo KAI TÊS pa-rop-SI-dos E-sô-then DE YE-moo-sin eks har-pa-YÊS KAI a-kra-SI-as
Exegesis
This is immediately personalized by the indirect object hymin {ὑμῖν | hymîn} ‘to you,’ followed by a vocative chain grammateis kai Pharisaioi hypokritai {γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί | grammateîs kaì Pharisaîoi hypokritái}, which names the groups and labels them ‘hypocrites’ for rhetorical impact.
This verb governs the object phrase to exothen tou poteríou kai tēs paropsidos {τὸ ἔξωθεν τοῦ ποτηρίου καὶ τῆς παροψίδος | tò éxōthen toû potēríou kaì tês paropsídos}, where the neuter article to plus the adverb exothen ‘outside’ is substantivized, then further specified by two genitives, ‘of the cup’ and ‘of the dish.’
The prepositional phrase ex arpagēs kai akrasias {ἐξ ἀρπαγῆς καὶ ἀκρασίας | ex harpagês kaì akrasías} uses the preposition ex with genitives to indicate what fills the interior: ‘greed’ and ‘self-indulgence.’ The deliberate outside/inside parallelism and the vivid stative verb ‘are full’ underline the discrepancy between ritual purity and moral corruption; the translations therefore preserve the spatial terms and the causal and contrastive connectors to reflect this sharp antithesis in English.
Root and etymology
dikedelta–iota–kappa–eta
“right, justice, legal claim”
In context — Matthew 23:25
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence .
About this coordinate
Matthew 23:25:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Matthew 23:25, so the Greek word καὶ (kai) 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.23.25.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.23.25.W4.S1) and character.