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Title: So, As Martha Heard That Jesus Comes, She Met Him
The text is, “Ἡ οὖν Μάρθα ὡς ἤκουσεν ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἔρχεται ὑπήντησεν αὐτῷ· Μαριὰμ δὲ ἐν τῷ οἴκῳ ἐκαθέζετο”.
“Ἡ”: feminine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “so”.
“Μάρθα”: feminine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Martha”.
“ὡς”: subordinating temporal conjunction meaning “as”.
“ἤκουσεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “heard”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“ἔρχεται”: third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb meaning “comes”.
“ὑπήντησεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “she met”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “him”.
“Μαριὰμ”: feminine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Mary”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “but”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in”.
“τῷ”: masculine, singular, dative article meaning “the”.
“οἴκῳ”: masculine, singular, dative noun meaning “house”.
“ἐκαθέζετο”: third person, singular, imperfect, middle, indicative verb meaning “was sitting”.
The meaning of this verse is,
So, as Martha heard that Jesus comes, she met him, but Mary was sitting in the house.
Ἡ οὖν Μάρθα ὡς ἤκουσεν ὅτι Ἰησοῦς ἔρχεται ὑπήντησεν αὐτῷ (John 11:20) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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