Matthew 23:30:8Matt.23.30.W8TAB
τῶν
tôn
“of the”
- Transliteration
- TÔN
- Extended
- TÔN
- IPA
- /ˈtɔːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- of the
Alphabet Analysis
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
TÔN
- 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 prepositional phrase en tais hemerais tōn paterōn hēmōn {ἐν ταῖς ἡμέραις τῶν πατέρων ἡμῶν | en taîs hē-mé-rais tôn pa-té-rōn hē-môn} locates this hypothetical scenario in the time of “our fathers,” using a genitive chain to mark ancestral belonging.
The following prepositional phrase en tō haimati tōn prophētōn {ἐν τῷ αἵματι τῶν προφητῶν | en tôi haí-mati tôn pro-phē-tōn} specifies the sphere of that solidarity as participation “in the blood of the prophets,” a metonymy for responsibility in their violent deaths. In translation, the Greek imperfect with an is represented by the English “would not have been / would never have joined” to preserve the contrary-to-fact nuance, and the dative construction with en is rendered by “in the blood” and then unpacked dynamically as “in shedding the blood” to make explicit the implication of killing.
Root and etymology
phoneuōpho-neú-ō
“to kill, murder”
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 23:30:8 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 8 of Matthew 23:30, so the Greek word τῶν (tôn) 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.W8, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.23.30.W8.S1) and character.