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Title: Philip Answered Him
The text is, “ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ [ὁ] Φίλιππος· διακοσίων δηναρίων ἄρτοι οὐκ ἀρκοῦσιν αὐτοῖς ἵνα ἕκαστος βραχύ [τι] λάβῃ”.
“ἀπεκρίθη”: third person, singular, aorist, passive, indicative verb meaning “answered”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “him”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Φίλιππος”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Philip”.
“διακοσίων”: neuter, plural, genitive, cardinal adjective meaning “two hundred”.
“δηναρίων” neuter, plural, genitive noun meaning “denarii”.
“ἄρτοι”: masculine, plural, nominative noun meaning “bread”.
“οὐκ”: negative particle meaning “not”.
“ἀρκοῦσιν”: third person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “is enough”.
“αὐτοῖς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “for them”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating conjunction or result meaning “that” or “so that”.
“ἕκαστος”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative adjective meaning “each” or “each one”.
“βραχύ”: neuter, singular, accusative adjective meaning “little”.
“τι”: neuter, singular, accusative, indefinite pronoun meaning “a”.
“λάβῃ”: third person, singular, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “might receive”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii is not enough bread for them so that each one might receive a little.”
ἀπεκρίθη αὐτῷ ὁ Φίλιππος (John 6:7) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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