Revelation 18:23:33Rev.18.23.W33TAB
φαρμακείᾳ
pharmakeiai
“sorcery”
- Transliteration
- phar-ma-KEI-ai
- Extended
- phahr-mah-KEH-ee-ai
- IPA
- /pʰar.maˈkei.ai/
Meaning by language
- English
- sorcery
Greek · tap a syllable to hear it
Alphabet Analysis
| Phi | ph — as in phone (f) | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Rho | r — rolled r | |
| Mu | m — as in mother | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Kappa | k — as in kite | |
| Epsilon | e — as in met (short) | |
| Iota | i — as in machine | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father |
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Word in context
- word
phar-ma-KEI-ai
- sentence
KAI PHÔS LYKH-nou ou MÊ PHA-nê en soi E-ti KAI phō-NÊ nym-PHI-ou KAI NYM-phēs ou MÊ a-kou-STHÊ en soi E-ti HO-ti hoi EM-po-ROI sou Ê-san hoi me-gis-TA-nes tês gês HO-ti en têi phar-ma-KEI-ai sou e-pla-NÊ-thê-san PAN-ta ta E-thnê
Exegesis
The second hoti-clause, hoti en te pharmakeia sou eplanethesan panta ta ethne {ὅτι ἐν τῇ φαρμακείᾳ σου ἐπλανήθησαν πάντα τὰ ἔθνη | hóti en tê pharmakeía sou eplanḗthēsan pánta ta éthnē}, uses a prepositional phrase with en to mark means or instrument (“by your sorcery”), while the passive verb eplanethesan ‘were led astray’ portrays the nations as victims of wide-ranging deception. The universal scope is underscored by panta ta ethne ‘all the nations’. In translation, the two ou me clauses are rendered with “will never” / “will no longer” to capture the definitive nature of the judgment, and the paired hoti clauses are preserved as sequential “because” statements to keep the explanatory logic explicit.
Root and etymology
pharmak-phi–alpha–rho–mu–alpha–kappa
“use of drugs, sorcery, enchantment”
In context — Revelation 18:23
And the light of a lamp will never shine in you again, and the voice of the bridegroom and the bride will never be heard in you again, because your merchants were the great ones of the earth, and because by your sorcery all the nations were led astray.
About this coordinate
Revelation 18:23:33 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 33 of Revelation 18:23, so the Greek word φαρμακείᾳ (pharmakeiai) 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.18.23.W33, which extends further down to each syllable (Rev.18.23.W33.S1) and character.