τῶν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 τῶν

   tôn

   of the
2. sentence🔊 καὶ εἶδον τὴν γυναῖκα μεθύουσαν ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν ἁγίων καὶ ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν μαρτύρων Ἰησοῦ

   KAI EI-don tên gy-NAI-ka me-THY-ou-san ek tou HAI-ma-tos tôn ha-GI-on KAI ek tou HAI-ma-tos tôn mar-TY-rôn ee-ay-SOO

   and I saw the woman being drunk from the blood of the saints and from the blood of the martyrs of Jesus

Exegesis

Two parallel prepositional phrases, ek tou haimatos tōn hagiōn {ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν ἁγίων | ek toû haí-ma-tos tôn ha-gí-ōn} and ek tou haimatos tōn martyrōn Iēsou {ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τῶν μαρτύρων Ἰησοῦ | ek toû haí-ma-tos tôn mar-tý-rōn Iē-soû}, use ek with a genitive of source to express that the woman’s intoxication derives from the blood of God’s saints and from the blood of Jesus’ martyrs. The genitive Iēsou functions as an objective genitive modifying martyrōn, “martyrs of Jesus,” highlighting their allegiance. The formal reconstruction maintains the Greek participial and prepositional structure, while the dynamic rendering adapts the participle to a finite verb for idiomatic clarity and recasts the second genitive phrase as a relative clause to explicate the martyrs’ witness role. Both versions conclude with John’s astonished response to the vision.

Root and etymology

bdelygma🔊 βδέλυγμαbeta–delta–epsilon–lambda–upsilon–gamma–mu–alpha

“abomination, detestable thing”

• 🔊 βδελύσσομαιbdelyssomaito detestRomans 2:22