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Title: My Sheep Hear My Voice, and I Know Them
The text is, “τὰ πρόβατα τὰ ἐμὰ τῆς φωνῆς μου ἀκούουσιν, κἀγὼ γινώσκω αὐτὰ καὶ ἀκολουθοῦσίν μοι”.
“τὰ”: neuter, plural, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“πρόβατα”: neuter, plural, nominative noun meaning “sheep”.
“τὰ”: neuter, plural, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ἐμὰ”: neuter, singular, nominative, possessive adjective meaning “my”.
“τῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“φωνῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive noun meaning “voice”.
“μου”: first person,personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “my”.
“ἀκούουσιν”: third person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “hear”.
“κἀγὼ”: crasis of “καὶ” (coordinating conjunction) and “‘έγω” (first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun), meaning “and I”.
“γινώσκω”: first person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “I know”.
“αὐτὰ”: third person, personal, neuter, plural, accusative pronoun meaning “them”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἀκολουθοῦσίν”: third person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “they follow”.
“μοι”: first person, personal, singular, dative pronoun meaning “me”.
The meaning of this verse is,
My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.”
τὰ πρόβατα τὰ ἐμὰ τῆς φωνῆς μου ἀκούουσιν, κἀγὼ γινώσκω αὐτὰ (John 10:27) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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