Matthew 23:30:4Matt.23.30.W4TAB
⸀ἤμεθα
êmetha
“we were”
- Transliteration
- Ê-me-tha
- Extended
- Ê-me-tha
- IPA
- /ˈeː.me.tʰa/
Meaning by language
- English
- we were
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Alphabet Analysis
| Eta | i — as in machine | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Theta | th — as in thin | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father |
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Word in context
- word
Ê-me-tha
- phraseyour reading level
ei Ê-me-tha en TAIS hê-ME-rais TÔN pa-TE-rôn hê-MON
- clause
ei Ê-me-tha en TAIS hê-ME-rais TÔN pa-TE-rôn hê-MON ouk AN Ê-me-tha au-TÔN koi-nô-NOI en TÔI HAI-ma-ti TÔN pro-phê-TÔN
- sentence
KAI LE-ye-te ei Ê-me-tha en TAIS hê-ME-rais TÔN pa-TE-rôn hê-MON ouk AN Ê-me-tha au-TÔN koi-nô-NOI en TÔI HAI-ma-ti TÔN pro-phê-TÔN
Exegesis
The conditional protasis begins with Ei {Εἰ | Ei} followed by the imperfect emetha {ἤμεθα | ḗ-me-tha}, forming a past unreal (contrary-to-fact) condition: “if we were,” rendered in English as “if we had been / had lived.”
In the apodosis, ouk an emetha {οὐκ ἂν ἤμεθα | ouk an ḗ-me-tha} combines the negative particle ouk with the modal particle an plus the imperfect of eimi to signal a strong, counterfactual denial: “we would not have been.”
In context — Matthew 23:30
And you say, “If we had been in the days of our fathers , we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.”
About this coordinate
Matthew 23:30:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Matthew 23:30, so the Greek word ⸀ἤμεθα (êmetha) 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.23.30.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.23.30.W4.S1) and character.