ἡ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἡ

   hê

   the
2. sentence🔊 καὶ μίαν ἐκ τῶν κεφαλῶν αὐτοῦ ὡς ἐσφαγμένην εἰς θάνατον καὶ ἡ πληγὴ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ ἐθεραπεύθη καὶ ἐθαυμάσθη ὅλη ἡ γῆ ὀπίσω τοῦ θηρίου

   KAI MI-an ek tôn ke-pha-LÔN au-TOU hôs es-pha-GME-nên eis THA-na-ton KAI hê plê-GÊ tou tha-NA-tou au-TOU e-the-ra-PEU-thê KAI e-thau-MAS-thê HO-lê hê gê o-PI-sô tou thê-RI-ou

   and one from the heads of him as having been slain into death and the wound of the death of him was healed and marveled whole the earth behind the beast

Exegesis

The next clause, hē plēgē tou thanatou autou etherapeuthē {ἡ πληγὴ τοῦ θανάτου αὐτοῦ ἐθεραπεύθη | hē plē-gḗ tou tha-ná-tou au-toû e-the-ra-peú-thē}, is a complete nominative clause in which “the wound of his death” is the subject and aorist passive etherapeuthē is the verb, depicting the healing as a completed event, almost paradoxical given its lethal character.

Finally, ethaumasthē holē hē gē opiso tou thēriou {ἐθαυμάσθη ὅλη ἡ γῆ ὀπίσω τοῦ θηρίου | e-thau-más-thē hó-lē hē gê o-pí-sō tou thē-rí-ou} uses another aorist passive (“was filled with wonder”) with holē hē gē as the subject, presenting the entire earth in collective astonishment and allegiance, conveyed by the preposition opiso {ὀπίσω | o-pí-sō} “after, behind,” a typical following-after language. In translation, Greek participial and prepositional structures are rendered with clear finite clauses and sequential connectors, preserving both the sense of a seemingly mortal yet healed wound and the resultant global amazement and pursuit of the beast.

Root and etymology

kephalē🔊 κεφαλήkappa–epsilon–phi–alpha–lambda–eta

“head, chief, top”

• 🔊 κεφάλαιονke-pha-lai-onmain point, summaryHebrews 8:1