τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγεν σημαίνων ποίῳ θανάτῳ ἤμελλεν ἀποθνῄσκειν (John 12:33)

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Title:  Now He Was Saying this Making Known What Kind of Death He Was About to Die

The text is, “τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγεν σημαίνων ποίῳ θανάτῳ ἤμελλεν ἀποθνῄσκειν”.

“τοῦτο”:  neuter, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.

“δὲ”:  coordinating conjunction meaning “now”.

“ἔλεγεν”:  third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “he was saying”.

“σημαίνων”:  present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “making known”.

“ποίῳ”:  masculine, singular, dative, interrogative pronoun meaning “what kind of”.

“θανάτῳ”:  masculine, singular, dative noun meaning “death”.

“ἤμελλεν”:  third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “he was about”.

“ἀποθνῄσκειν”:  present, active, infinitive verb meaning “to die”.

The meaning of this verse is,

Now he was saying this making known what kind of death he was about to die.

CC BY 4.0 τοῦτο δὲ ἔλεγεν σημαίνων ποίῳ θανάτῳ ἤμελλεν ἀποθνῄσκειν (John 12:33) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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