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Title: Therefore the Jews did not Believe Him
The text is, “Οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι περὶ αὐτοῦ ὅτι ἦν τυφλὸς καὶ ἀνέβλεψεν ἕως ὅτου ἐφώνησαν τοὺς γονεῖς αὐτοῦ τοῦ ἀναβλέψαντος”.
“Οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ἐπίστευσαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “they did believe”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “therefore”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“Ἰουδαῖοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jews”.
“περὶ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “about”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “him”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “he had been”.
“τυφλὸς”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “blind”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἀνέβλεψεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “received sight”.
“ἕως”: improper preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “as far as”.
“ὅτου”: neuter, singular, genitive, indefinite, relative pronoun meaning “until”.
“ἐφώνησαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “they called”.
“τοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“γονεῖς”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “parents”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “his”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the”.
“ἀναβλέψαντος”: aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, genitive verb meaning “one having received sight”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Therefore the Jews did not believe about him that he had been blind and received sight, as far as until they called his parents, of the one having received sight.
Οὐκ ἐπίστευσαν οὖν οἱ Ἰουδαῖοι περὶ αὐτοῦ (John 9:18) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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