Revelation 14:16:17Rev.14.16.W17TAB
γῆ
gê
“earth”
- Transliteration
- gÊ
- Extended
- gÊ
- IPA
- /gɛː/
Meaning by language
- English
- earth
Alphabet Analysis
| Gamma | gh — guttural | |
| Eta | i — as in machine |
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Word in context
- word
gÊ
- sentence
KAI E-ba-len ho ka-THEE-me-nos e-PEE TÊS ne-FE-lês to DRE-pa-non au-TOU e-PEE tên gÊN KAI e-the-REES-thê hê gÊ
Exegesis
The second clause, kai etheristhē hē gē {καὶ ἐθερίσθη ἡ γῆ | kaí e-the-rís-thē hē gḗ} ‘and the earth was reaped’, employs an aorist passive verb to shift focus to the completed result, underscoring that the harvest is effected by prior heavenly initiative. English renderings preserve the participial title with a relative clause (“He who sat on the cloud”) in formal and a simple locative phrase (“He on the cloud”) in dynamic, maintain the harvest imagery through “sickle” and “reaped/harvested,” and emphasize the decisive swing in the formal and the downward sweep in the dynamic translation.
Root and etymology
gēgamma–ē-eta
“earth, land”
In context — Revelation 14:16
And He who sat on the cloud swung His sickle over the earth, and the earth was reaped.
About this coordinate
Revelation 14:16:17 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 17 of Revelation 14:16, so the Greek word γῆ (gê) 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 Rev.14.16.W17, which extends further down to each syllable (Rev.14.16.W17.S1) and character.