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Title: I am the Living Bread
The text is, “ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ζῶν ὁ ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ καταβάς· ἐάν τις φάγῃ ἐκ τούτου τοῦ ἄρτου ζήσει εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα, καὶ ὁ ἄρτος δὲ ὃν ἐγὼ δώσω ἡ σάρξ μού ἐστιν ὑπὲρ τῆς τοῦ κόσμου ζωῆς”.
“ἐγώ”: first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “I”.
“εἰμι”: first person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “am”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“ἄρτος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “bread”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ζῶν”: present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “living”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “from” or “out of”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“οὐρανοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “heaven”.
“καταβάς”: aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “descending”.
“ἐάν”: subordinating conditional conjunction meaning “if”.
“τις”: masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun meaning “one”.
“φάγῃ”: third person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “should eat”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “of” or “from”.
“τούτου”: masculine, singular, genitive, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ἄρτου”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “bread”.
“ζήσει”: third person, singular, future, active, indicative verb meaning “he will live”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “into”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here
“αἰῶνα”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “eternity”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“ἄρτος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “bread”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “but”.
“ὃν”: masculine, singular, accusative, definite, relative pronoun meaning “that”.
“ἐγὼ”: first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “I”.
“δώσω”: first person, singular, future, active, indicative verb meaning “will give”.
“ἡ”: feminine, singular, nominative article meaning “that”.
“σάρξ”: feminine, singular, nominative noun meaning “flesh”.
“μού”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ὑπὲρ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “for”.
“τῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive article meaning “the”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “of the”.
“κόσμου”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “world”.
“ζωῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive noun meaning “life”.
The meaning of this verse is,
I am the living bread descending from heaven. If one should eat of this bread, he will live into eternity, but the bread that I will give, that is my flesh for the life of the world.
ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ἄρτος ὁ ζῶν (John 6:51) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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