Revelation 17:6:16Rev.17.6.W16TAB
μαρτύρων
martyrôn
“martyrs”
- Transliteration
- mar-TY-rôn
- Extended
- mahr-TY-ROHN
- IPA
- /marˈty.rɔːn/
Meaning by language
- English
- martyrs
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Alphabet Analysis
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Upsilon | i — as in machine | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Omega | o — same as omicron | |
| Nu | n — as in new |
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Word in context
- word
mar-TY-rôn
- sentence
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
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
martysmu–alpha–rho–tau–upsilon–sigma
“witness, one who testifies”
In context — Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman being drunk with the blood of the saints , and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus ; and when I saw her, I marveled greatly.
About this coordinate
Revelation 17:6:16 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 16 of Revelation 17:6, so the Greek word μαρτύρων (martyrôn) 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.17.6.W16, which extends further down to each syllable (Rev.17.6.W16.S1) and character.