συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων (John 6:13)

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Title:  So They Gathered and Filled Twelve Baskets of Fragments

The text is, “συνήγαγον οὖν καὶ ἐγέμισαν δώδεκα κοφίνους κλασμάτων ἐκ τῶν πέντε ἄρτων τῶν κριθίνων ἃ ἐπερίσσευσαν τοῖς βεβρωκόσιν”

“συνήγαγον”:  third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “they gathered”.

“οὖν”:  coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “so”.

“καὶ”:  coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.

“ἐγέμισαν”:  third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “filled”.

“δώδεκα”:  masculine, plural, accusative, cardinal adjective meaning “twelve”.

“κοφίνους”:  masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “baskets”.

“κλασμάτων”:  neuter, plural, genitive noun meaning “of fragments”.

“ἐκ”:  preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “of” or “from”.

“τῶν”:  masculine, plural, genitive article meaning “the”.

“πέντε”:  masculine, plural, genitive, cardinal adjective meaning “five”.

“ἄρτων”:  masculine, plural, genitive noun meaning “loaves”.

“τῶν”:  masculine, plural, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.

“κριθίνων”:  masculine, plural, genitive adjective meaning “made of barley”.

“ἃ”:  neuter, plural, nominative, definite, relative pronoun meaning “those”.

“ἐπερίσσευσαν”:  third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “abounded”.

“τοῖς”:  masculine, plural, dative article meaning “the”.

“βεβρωκόσιν”:  perfect, active, participial, masculine, plural, dative verb meaning “having eaten”.

The meaning of this verse is,

So they gathered and filled twelve baskets of fragments from the five loaves those having eaten abounded.

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