Matthew 16:25:4Matt.16.25.W4PAT

θέλῃ

thelêi

wants

Transliteration
THE-lêi
Extended
THE-lêi
IPA
/ˈtʰe.lɛːi/

Meaning by language

English
wants
French
veut
Spanish
quiere
Portuguese
quer
German
will
Russian
хочет
Arabic-Simplified
يريد
Hindi
चाहता है
Chinese-Simplified
想要
Korean
원한다
Indonesian
mau
Bengali
চায়
Tagalog
nagnanais
Swahili
ataka
Amharic
ይፈልጋል
Yoruba
fẹ́
Igbo
chọrọ
Twi
Ewe
di

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Result
θέ + λῃ
the + lêi
thelêi

Alphabet Analysis

Thetath — as in thin
Epsilone — as in met (short)
Lambdal — as in law
Etai — as in machine

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Word in context

  1. word

    THE-lêi

  2. clause

    HOS GAR e-AN THE-lêi TÊN psy-KHÊN au-TOO SÔ-sai a-po-LE-sei au-TÊN

  3. sentence

    HOS GAR e-AN THE-lêi TÊN psy-KHÊN au-TOO SÔ-sai a-po-LE-sei au-TÊN HOS d AN a-po-LE-sêi TÊN psy-KHÊN au-TOO HE-ne-ken e-MOO HEU-RÊ-sei au-TÊN

In contextMatthew 16:25

whoever for if wants the life his to save will lose it whoever but if loses the life his for the sake of me will find it

About this coordinate

Matthew 16:25:4 is a BCV:P reference — Book · Chapter · Verse · Word Position. It addresses word 4 of Matthew 16:25, so the Greek word θέλῃ (thelêi) 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 Matt.16.25.W4, which extends further down to each syllable (Matt.16.25.W4.S1) and character.