τὰ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τὰ

   ta

   the
2. sentence🔊 καὶ ἡ γυνὴ ἦν περιβεβλημένη πορφυροῦν καὶ κόκκινον καὶ κεχρυσωμένη χρυσίῳ καὶ λίθῳ τιμίῳ καὶ μαργαρίταις ἔχουσα ποτήριον χρυσοῦν ἐν τῇ χειρὶ αὐτῆς γέμον βδελυγμάτων καὶ τὰ ἀκάθαρτα τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς

   KAI hê gy-NE ÊN pe-ri-be-blê-ME-nê por-phy-ROUN KAI KOK-ki-non KAI ke-khry-sô-ME-nê khry-SI-ō KAI LI-thō ti-MI-ō KAI mar-ga-RI-tais E-khou-sa po-TÊ-ri-on khry-SOUN en tê khei-RI au-TÊS GE-mon bde-lyg-MA-tōn KAI ta a-KA-thar-ta tês por-NEI-as au-TÊS

   and the woman was clothed purple and scarlet and gilded with gold and with stone precious and with pearls having cup golden in the hand of her full of abominations and the impure things of the sexual immorality of her

Exegesis

The participle gemon {γέμον | gémon} ‘being full’ links the cup directly to its contents, expressed by the genitive bdelygmaton {βδελυγμάτων | bdelygmátōn} ‘of abominations’ and coordinated object phrase ta akatharta {τὰ ἀκάθαρτα | tà akátharta} ‘the unclean things’, further defined by the genitive tes porneias autes {τῆς πορνείας αὐτῆς | tēs porneías autês} ‘of her fornication’. The structure juxtaposes luxurious outward appearance with morally repulsive contents, a contrast preserved in translation by maintaining the cumulative chains of modifiers while dividing them into two sentences in dynamic rendering for clarity.

Root and etymology

akathartos🔊 ἀκάθαρτοςalpha–kappa–alpha–theta–alpha–rho–tau–omicron–sigma

“unclean, impure”

• 🔊 καθαρόςkatharosclean, pureMatthew 5:8