Ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου οὖν ἀκούσαντες τῶν λόγων τούτων (John 7:40)

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Title:  Therefore the Crowd, Having Heard these Words

The text is, “Ἐκ τοῦ ὄχλου οὖν ἀκούσαντες τῶν λόγων τούτων ἔλεγον· οὗτός ἐστιν ἀληθῶς ὁ προφήτης”.

“Ἐκ”:  preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “of” or “from”.

“τοῦ”:  masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “the”.

“ὄχλου”:  masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “crowd”.

“οὖν”:  coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “therefore”.

“ἀκούσαντες”:  aorist, active, participial, masculine, plural, nominative verb meaning “having heard”.

“τῶν”:  masculine, plural, genitive noun meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.

“λόγων”:  masculine, plural, genitive noun meaning “words”.

“τούτων”:  masculine, plural, genitive, demonstrative pronoun meaning “these”.

“ἔλεγον”:  third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “were saying”.

“οὗτός”:  masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.

“ἐστιν”:  third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.

“ἀληθῶς”:  adverb meaning “truly”, “really”, or “certainly”.

“ὁ”:  masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.

“προφήτης”:  masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “prophet”.

The meaning of this verse is,

Therefore, the crowd, having heard these words, were saying, “This is certainly the prophet.”

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