αὐτῆς

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 αὐτῆς

   au-TÊS

   of her
2. sentence🔊 ὅτι ἐκολλήθησαν αὐτῆς αἱ ἁμαρτίαι ἄχρι τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καὶ ἐμνημόνευσεν ὁ θεὸς τὰ ἀδικήματα αὐτῆς

   HO-ti e-kol-LÊE-thê-san au-TÊS hai ha-mar-TEE-ai A-khri tou ou-ra-NOU kai em-nê-MO-neu-sen ho the-OS ta a-di-KÊE-ma-ta au-TÊS

   for were joined of her the sins up to the heaven and remembered the God the iniquities of her

Exegesis

The aorist passive verb ekollēthēsan {ἐκολλήθησαν | e-kol-lḗ-thē-san} has as its grammatical subject the later noun phrase hai hamartiai {αἱ ἁμαρτίαι | hai ha-mar-tí-ai} “the sins,” producing a slight delay that foregrounds the possessive genitive autēs {αὐτῆς | au-tês} “of her,” emphasizing that the sins uniquely belong to this city. The verb’s passive voice (“were glued,” “have clung”) portrays the sins as adhering firmly rather than merely being counted, intensifying the image of inescapable guilt.

The direct object ta adikēmata {τὰ ἀδικήματα | ta a-di-kḗ-ma-ta} specifies the character of what is remembered: concrete injustices and wrongs, again modified by autēs {αὐτῆς | au-tês} to keep focus on the city’s culpability. English renderings preserve the causal linkage and the two-step movement—sins ascending to heaven, then God’s deliberate act of remembering—while using idiomatic expressions (“have clung,” “have piled up,” “called to mind”) to convey the underlying forensic and spatial imagery.