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Title: Jesus Said this Figurative Discourse to Them
The text is, “Ταύτην τὴν παροιμίαν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς, ἐκεῖνοι δὲ οὐκ ἔγνωσαν τίνα ἦν ἃ ἐλάλει αὐτοῖς”.
“Ταύτην”: feminine, singular, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“τὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“παροιμίαν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “proverb”, “parable”, “maxim”, or “figurative discourse”.
“εἶπεν”: third person, singular, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “to them”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Ἰησοῦς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Jesus”.
“ἐκεῖνοι”: masculine, plural, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “they”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “but”.
“οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ἔγνωσαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “discern”, “recognize”, or “hear”.
“τίνα”: neuter, plural, nominative, interrogative pronoun meaning “what”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “was”.
“ἃ”: neuter, plural, accusative, definite, relative pronoun meaning “that”.
“ἐλάλει”: third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “he was saying”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “to them”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Jesus said this figurative discourse to them, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.
Ταύτην τὴν παροιμίαν εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς (John 10:6) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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