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Title: Many Were Saying That It is, but Others Were Saying, “No, but He is Like Him”
The text is, “ἄλλοι ἔλεγον ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν ἄλλοι ἔλεγον οὐχί, ἀλλ’ ὅμοιος αὐτῷ ἐστιν ἐκεῖνος ἔλεγεν ὅτι ἐγώ εἰμι”.
“ἄλλοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, demonstrative adjective meaning “many”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “were saying”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating conjunction meaning “that”.
“οὗτός”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun mean “it”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ἄλλοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, demonstrative adjective meaning “others”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “were saying”.
“οὐχί”: negative particle meaning “no”.
“ἀλλ’”: coordinating adversative conjunction meaning “but”.
“ὅμοιος”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “like”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “him”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “he is”.
“ἐκεῖνος”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “he”.
“ἔλεγεν”: third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “was saying”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating conjunction meaning “that”.
“ἐγώ”: first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “I”.
“εἰμι”: first person, singular, present, indicating verb meaning “am”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Many were saying that it is, but others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” He was saying, “That I Am.”
ἄλλοι ἔλεγον ὅτι οὗτός ἐστιν, ἄλλοι ἔλεγον· οὐχί, ἀλλ’ ὅμοιος αὐτῷ ἐστιν (John 9:9) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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