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Title: Now in the Law Moses Instructed Us
The text is, “ἐν δὲ τῷ νόμῳ ἡμῖν Μωϋσῆς ἐνετείλατο τὰς τοιαύτας λιθάζειν. σὺ οὖν τί λέγεις”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object verb and meaning “in”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “now”.
“τῷ”: masculine, singular, dative article meaning “the”.
“νόμῳ”: masculine, singular, dative noun meaning “law”.
“ἡμῖν”: first person, personal, plural, dative pronoun meaning “us”.
“Μωϋσῆς”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Moses”.
“ἐνετείλατο”: third person, singular, aorist, middle, indicative verb meaning “instructed”.
“τὰς”: feminine, plural, accusative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“τοιαύτας”: feminine, plural, accusative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “such”.
“λιθάζειν”: present, active, infinitive verb meaning “to stone”.
“σὺ”: second person, personal, singular, nominative pronoun meaning “you”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “so”.
“τί”: neuter, singular, accusative, interrogative pronoun meaning “what”.
“λέγεις”: second person, singular, present, active, indicative verb meaning “do say”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Now in the law, Moses instructed us, such to stone. So what do you say?”
ἐν δὲ τῷ νόμῳ ἡμῖν Μωϋσῆς ἐνετείλατο (John 8:5) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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