Romans 16:11:12Rom.16.11.W12TAB
ὄντας
ontas
“being”
- Transliteration
- ON-tas
- Extended
- OHN-tahs
- IPA
- /ˈon.tas/
Meaning by language
- English
- being
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Alphabet Analysis
| Omicron | o — as in omit (short) | |
| Nu | n — as in new | |
| Tau | t — as in top | |
| Alpha | ah — as in father | |
| Sigma (final) | s — used only at end of words |
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Word in context
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ON-tas
- sentence
a-SPA-sa-sthe hê-rō-DI-o-na ton syng-ge-NÊ mou a-SPA-sa-sthe tous ek tôn nar-KIS-sou tous ON-tas en ky-RI-ō
Exegesis
This is then restricted by the participial phrase tous ontas en Kyriō {τοὺς ὄντας ἐν Κυρίῳ | toús óntas en Kyríō}, an accusative substantival participle functioning attributively, so that only those household members who are presently ‘in the Lord’ are greeted. The repeated tous before ontas creates a clear delimiting structure, emphasizing that Paul’s concern is specifically for the believers within that household. In English, the two imperatives are preserved for rhetorical parallelism, while the participial construction is rendered as a relative clause (“who are in the Lord”) to maintain clarity and the restrictive force of the Greek syntax.
In context — Romans 16:11
Greet Herodion, my kinsman . Greet those from the household of Narcissus who are in the Lord .
About this coordinate
Romans 16:11:12 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 12 of Romans 16:11, so the Greek word ὄντας (ontas) 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 Rom.16.11.W12, which extends further down to each syllable (Rom.16.11.W12.S1) and character.