ἡ

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἡ

   hê

   the
2. sentence🔊 ἀπὸ μακρόθεν ἑστηκότες διὰ τὸν φόβον τοῦ βασανισμοῦ αὐτῆς λέγοντες Οὐαὶ οὐαί ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη Βαβυλὼν ἡ πόλις ἡ ἰσχυρά ὅτι μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἦλθεν ἡ κρίσις σου

   a-PO ma-KRO-then he-stê-KO-tes di-A ton PHO-bon tou ba-sa-nis-MOU au-TÊS LE-gon-tes ou-AI ou-AI hê PO-lis hê me-GA-lê Ba-by-LÔN hê PO-lis hê is-khy-RA HO-ti mi-AI HÔ-ra ÊL-then hê KRI-sis sou

   from from far away standing because of the fear of the torment of her saying woe woe the city the great Babylon the city the mighty because in one hour came the judgment your

Exegesis

In the appositional sequence hē polis hē megale Babylōn hē polis hē ischyra {ἡ πόλις ἡ μεγάλη Βαβυλὼν ἡ πόλις ἡ ἰσχυρά | hē pólis hē me-gá-lē ba-bu-lōn hē pólis hē is-chu-rá}, the repetition of article-noun pairs underscores both identity and attributes of the city.

The conjunction hoti introduces the temporal-causal clause mia hora elthen hē krisis sou {μιᾷ ὥρᾳ ἦλθεν ἡ κρίσις σου | mi-âi hṓ-ra ḗl-then hē krí-sis sou} ‘because in one hour your judgment came’, with the dative marking a precise moment and the aorist verb marking the event as a completed, decisive act. Participial structures are rendered as finite clauses for clarity, the repetition of terms preserved for rhetorical intensity, and the abrupt timing maintained to reflect sudden divine action.

Root and etymology

dokeō🔊 δοκέωdelta–omicron–kappa–epsilon–omega

“to think, seem”

• 🔊 δοξάζωdoxazōto glorifyRomans 8:30
• 🔊 ἐπιφάνειαepiphaneiaappearance2 Timothy 1:10