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Title: And I Give to Them Eternal Life
The text is, “κἀγὼ δίδωμι αὐτοῖς ζωὴν αἰώνιον καὶ οὐ μὴ ἀπόλωνται εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα καὶ οὐχ ἁρπάσει τις αὐτὰ ἐκ τῆς χειρός μου”.
“κἀγὼ”: crasis of “καὶ” (coordinating conjunction) and “‘έγω” (first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun), meaning “and I”.
“δίδωμι”: first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “give”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, neuter, plural, dative pronoun meaning “to them”.
“ζωὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “life”.
“αἰώνιον”: feminine, singular, accusative adjective meaning “eternal”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“οὐ”: negative particle meaning “never”.
“μὴ”: negative particle meaning “never”.
“ἀπόλωνται”: third person, plural, aorist, middle, subjunctive verb meaning “they will be lost”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “as far as”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“αἰῶνα”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “eternity”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“οὐχ”: negative particle meaning “never”.
“ἁρπάσει”: third person, singular, future, active, indicative verb meaning “will be snatched away”.
“τις”: masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun meaning “one”.
“αὐτὰ”: third person, personal, neuter, accusative pronoun meaning “of them”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “from” or “out of”.
“τῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“χειρός”: feminine, singular, genitive noun meaning “hand”.
“μου”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
The meaning of this verse is,
And I give to them eternal life, and never, never, will they be lost as far as the eternity–one of them will never be snatched away out of my hand.”
κἀγὼ δίδωμι αὐτοῖς ζωὴν αἰώνιον (John 10:28) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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