τῶν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τῶν

   tôn

   of the
2. sentence🔊 Καὶ ὁ ἕκτος ἐξέχεεν τὴν φιάλην αὐτοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν ποταμὸν τὸν μέγαν τὸν Εὐφράτην καὶ ἐξηράνθη τὸ ὕδωρ αὐτοῦ ἵνα ἑτοιμασθῇ ἡ ὁδὸς τῶν βασιλέων τῶν ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆς ἡλίου

   KAI ho HEK-tos ek-SE-khe-en tên phi-A-lên au-TOU e-PI ton po-ta-MON ton ME-gan ton eu-PHRA-tên KAI ek-xê-RAN-thê to HY-dôr au-TOU HI-na he-toi-mas-THÊ hê ho-DOS tôn ba-si-LE-ôn tôn a-PO a-na-to-LÊS hê-LI-ou

   and the sixth poured out the bowl his on the river the great the Euphrates and was dried up the water of it so that might be prepared the way of the kings of the from east of sun

Exegesis

The noun phrase hē hodos tōn basileōn tōn apo anatolēs hēliou {ἡ ὁδὸς τῶν βασιλέων τῶν ἀπὸ ἀνατολῆς ἡλίου | hē ho-dós tôn bas-ilé-ōn tôn apó a-na-to-lḗs hē-lí-ou} uses genitives to designate both the path’s destination “of the kings” and origin “from the rising of the sun,” where apo plus genitive idiomatically denotes “the east.”