τοῦ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τοῦ

   TOU

   {the}
2. phraseyour reading level🔊 ὥσπερ ⸀γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε,

   HÔS-per GAR ai hê-ME-rai TOU NÔ-e

   for Just as the days of {the} Noah
3. sentence🔊 ὥσπερ ⸀γὰρ αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε, οὕτως ⸀ἔσται ἡ παρουσία τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου·

   HÔS-per GAR ai hê-ME-rai TOU NÔ-e HOU-tôs ES-tai hê pa-rou-SI-a TOU hy-OU TOU an-THRÔ-pou

   for Just as the days of {the} Noah so will be the coming of the Son of the Man

Exegesis

The noun phrase hai hēmerai tou Nōe {αἱ ἡμέραι τοῦ Νῶε | hai hē-mé-rai toû Nō-e} ‘the days of Noah’ functions as a temporal genitive construction marking an archetypal period.

The dual genitive tou huiou tou anthrōpou {τοῦ υἱοῦ τοῦ ἀνθρώπου | toû hu-i-ô-u toû an-thrṓ-pou} ‘of the Son of Man’ combines two possessive genitives to render the Messianic title. Word order in Greek places the comparative clause before the eschatological clause, which is retained in the literal reconstruction, while the English reconstructions use standard clause sequencing for readability.

Root and etymology

ἐκλέγομαι🔊 ἐκλέγομαιepsilon–kappa–lambda–epsilon–gamma–omicron–mu–alpha–iota

“to choose, select”

• 🔊 ἐκλογήἐκλογήelectionRomans 11:5