ἐγώ σε ἐδόξασα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τὸ ἔργον τελειώσας ὃ δέδωκάς μοι ἵνα ποιήσω (John 17:4)

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Title:  I Glorified You on the Earth, Having Accomplished the Work You Had Given Me that I Should Do

The text is, “ἐγώ σε ἐδόξασα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τὸ ἔργον τελειώσας ὃ δέδωκάς μοι ἵνα ποιήσω”.

ἐγώ -> first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun -> I

σε -> third person, personal, singular, accusative pronoun -> you

ἐδόξασα -> first person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb -> glorified

ἐπὶ -> preposition taking the genitive for its object word -> on

τῆς -> feminine, singular, genitive article -> the

γῆς -> feminine, singular, genitive noun -> earth

τὸ[> neuter, singular, accusative article -> the

ἔργον -> neuter, singular, accusative noun -> work

τελειώσας -> aorist, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb -> having accomplished

ὃ -> neuter, singular, accusative, definite, relative pronoun -> that

δέδωκάς -> second person, singular, perfect, active, indicative verb -> you had given | you gave

μοι -> first person, personal, singular, dative pronoun -> to me

ἵνα -> subordinating purposive conjunction -> that

ποιήσω -> first person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb -> I should  do

The meaning of this verse is,

I glorified you on the earth, having accomplished the work that you had given me to do

CC BY 4.0 ἐγώ σε ἐδόξασα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς τὸ ἔργον τελειώσας ὃ δέδωκάς μοι ἵνα ποιήσω (John 17:4) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

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