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Title: Therefore the Neighbors and the Ones Hearing Him, Formerly. as a Beggar
The text is, “Οἱ οὖν γείτονες καὶ οἱ θεωροῦντες αὐτὸν τὸ πρότερον ὅτι προσαίτης ἦν ἔλεγον· οὐχ οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ καθήμενος καὶ προσαιτῶν”.
“Οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “therefore”.
“γείτονες”: masculine, plural, nominative noun meaning “neighbors”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“οἱ”: masculine, plural, nominative article meaning “the”.
“θεωροῦντες”: present, active, participial, masculine, plural, nominative verb meaning “ones hearing”.
“αὐτὸν”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, accusative pronoun meaning “him”.
“τὸ”: neuter, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“πρότερον”: comparative adverb meaning “formerly”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “as”.
“προσαίτης”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “a beggar”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, perfect, indicative verb meaning “was”.
“ἔλεγον”: third person, plural, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “were saying”.
“οὐχ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“οὗτός”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“καθήμενος”: present, middle, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “one sitting”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“προσαιτῶν”: present, middle, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “begging”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Therefore the neighbors, and the ones hearing him, formerly. as a beggar, were saying, “Is this not the one sitting and begging?”
Οἱ οὖν γείτονες καὶ οἱ θεωροῦντες αὐτὸν τὸ πρότερον ὅτι προσαίτης (John 9:8) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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