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Title: Therefore Jesus Said, “Forgive Her”
The text is, “εἶπεν οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἄφες αὐτήν, ἵνα εἰς τὴν ἡμέραν τοῦ ἐνταφιασμοῦ μου τηρήσῃ αὐτό”.
“εἶπεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “therefore”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“ἄφες”: second person, singular, aorist, active, imperative verb meaning “you forgive”.
“αὐτήν”: third person, personal, feminine, accusative pronoun meaning “her”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “so that”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “for”.
“τὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“ἡμέραν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “day”.
“τοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive article meaning “of the” but it is rendered here as “of”.
“ἐνταφιασμοῦ”: masculine, singular, genitive noun meaning “burial”.
“μου”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
“τηρήσῃ”: third person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “she may keep”.
“αὐτό”: third person, personal, neuter, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “it”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Therefore Jesus said, “You forgive her, so that she may keep it for the day of my burial.”
εἶπεν οὖν ὁ Ἰησοῦς· ἄφες αὐτήν (John 12:7) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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