καὶ χαίρω δι’ ὑμᾶς ἵνα πιστεύσητε, ὅτι οὐκ ἤμην ἐκεῖ (John 11:15)

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Title:  And I Rejoice Because of You, That You Should Believe, Because I Was Not There

The text is, “καὶ χαίρω δι’ ὑμᾶς ἵνα πιστεύσητε ὅτι οὐκ ἤμην ἐκεῖ· ἀλλ’ ἄγωμεν πρὸς αὐτόν”.

“καὶ”:  coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.

“χαίρω”:  first person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “I rejoice”.

“δι’”:  preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “because of”.

“ὑμᾶς”:  second person, personal, plural, accusative pronoun meaning “you”.

“ἵνα”:  subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “so that”.

“πιστεύσητε”:  second person, plural, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “you should believe”.

“ὅτι”:  subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “because”.

“οὐκ”:  “negative particle meaning “not”.

“ἤμην””:  first person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “I was”.

“ἐκεῖ”:  adverb of place meaning “there”.

“ἀλλ’”:  coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.

“ἄγωμεν”:  first person, plural, present, active, subjunctive verb meaning “let us go”.

“πρὸς”  preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to”.

“αὐτόν”:  third person, personal, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “him”.

The meaning of this verse is,

And I rejoice because of you, that you should believe, because I was not there; but let us go to him.”

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