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Title: Never Since Eternity Was it Heard
The text is, “ἐκ τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἠκούσθη ὅτι ἠνέῳξέν τις ὀφθαλμοὺς τυφλοῦ γεγεννημένου”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “since” or “from”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“αἰῶνος”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “eternity”.
“οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ἠκούσθη”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “it was heard”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“ἠνέῳξέν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “opened”.
“τις”: masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun meaning “anyone”.
“ὀφθαλμοὺς”: masculine, plural, accusative noun meaning “eyes”.
“τυφλοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive adjective meaning “blind”.
“γεγεννημένου”: perfect, passive, participial, masculine, singular, genitive verb meaning “of one having been born”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Not since eternity was it heard that anyone opened eyes of one having been born blind.”
ἐκ τοῦ αἰῶνος οὐκ ἠκούσθη (John 9:32) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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