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Title: I Am the Good Shepherd
The text is, “Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός. ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλὸς τὴν ψυχὴν αὐτοῦ τίθησιν ὑπὲρ τῶν προβάτων”.
“Ἐγώ”: first person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “I”.
“εἰμι”: first person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “am”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ποιμὴν”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “shepherd”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“καλός”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “good”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ποιμὴν”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “shepherd”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“καλός”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “good”.
“τὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ψυχὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “life”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “his”.
“τίθησιν”: third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “lays down”.
“ὑπὲρ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “for”.
“τῶν”: neuter, plural, genitive article meaning “the”.
“προβάτων”: neuter, plural, genitive noun meaning “sheep”.
The meaning of this verse is,
I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.”
Ἐγώ εἰμι ὁ ποιμὴν ὁ καλός (John 9:11) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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