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Title: If a Man Receives Circumcision on the Sabbath so that the Law of Moses Might Not be Broken
The text is, “εἰ περιτομὴν λαμβάνει ἄνθρωπος ἐν σαββάτῳ ἵνα μὴ λυθῇ ὁ νόμος Μωϋσέως, ἐμοὶ χολᾶτε ὅτι ὅλον ἄνθρωπον ὑγιῆ ἐποίησα ἐν σαββάτῳ”.
“εἰ”: subordinating conditional conjunction meaning “if”.
“περιτομὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “circumcision”.
“λαμβάνει”: third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “receives”.
“ἄνθρωπος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “a man”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in” or “on”.
“σαββάτῳ”: neuter, singular, dative noun meaning “the sabbath”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “so that”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“λυθῇ”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, subjunctive verb meaning “should have been broken”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“νόμος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “law”.
“Μωϋσέως”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “of Moses”.
“ἐμοὶ”: first person, personal, singular, dative pronoun meaning “with me”.
“χολᾶτε”: second person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “you are angry”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating causative conjunction meaning “because”.
“ὅλον”: masculine, singular, accusative adjective meaning “whole”.
“ἄνθρωπον”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “a man”.
“ὑγιῆ”: masculine, singular, accusative adjective meaning “well”.
“ἐποίησα”: first person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “I made”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in” or “on”.
“σαββάτῳ”: neuter, singular, dative noun meaning “the sabbath”.
The meaning of this verse is,
If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath so that the law of Moses should not have been broken, you are angry with me because I made a whole man well on the sabbath.”
εἰ περιτομὴν λαμβάνει ἄνθρωπος ἐν σαββάτῳ ἵνα μὴ λυθῇ ὁ νόμος Μωϋσέως (John 7:23) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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