ἐν

Alphabet Analysis

The word

1. word🔊 ἐν

   en

   in
2. sentence🔊 καὶ οὐ μὴ εἰσέλθῃ εἰς αὐτὴν πᾶν κοινὸν καὶ ποιῶν βδέλυγμα καὶ ψεῦδος εἰ μὴ οἱ γεγραμμένοι ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἀρνίου

   kai ou MÊ ei-SEL-thê eis au-TÊN PAN koi-NON kai poi-ÔN bDE-lyg-ma kai PSEU-dos ei MÊ hoi ge-graM-ME-noi en tôi bi-BLI-ôi tês zô-ÊS tou ar-NI-ou

   and not not may enter into it anything common or unclean and doing abomination and falsehood if not the ones having been written in the book of the life of the Lamb

Exegesis

This group is specified en tō bibliō tēs zōēs tou arniou {ἐν τῷ βιβλίῳ τῆς ζωῆς τοῦ ἀρνίου | en tō biblíō tēs zōḗs tou arníou}, a dative prepositional phrase with a genitive chain defining the register, its content, and its owner. The structure contrasts sweeping exclusion with a singular divine exception, which the English renders by mirroring the force of the Greek subjunctive and the exceptive clause.

Root and etymology

dōma🔊 δῶμαdelta–omega–mu–alpha

“house, building”