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Title: Then They Gave Dinner to Him There, and Martha was Serving
The text is, “c ὁ δὲ Λάζαρος εἷς ἦν ἐκ τῶν ἀνακειμένων σὺν αὐτῷ”.
“ἐποίησαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “they gave”
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “then”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “to him”.
“δεῖπνον”: neuter, singular, accusative noun meaning “dinner”.
“ἐκεῖ”: adverb of place meaning “there”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἡ”: feminine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“Μάρθα”: feminine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Martha”.
“διηκόνει”: third person, singular, imperfect, active, indicative verb meaning “was serving”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“Λάζαρος”: masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun meaning “Lazarus”.
“εἷς”: masculine, singular, nominative, cardinal adjective meaning “one”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “was”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “of”.
“τῶν”: masculine, plural, genitive article meaning “the” or “those”.
“ἀνακειμένων”: present, middle, participial, masculine, plural genitive verb meaning “reclining at table” or “sitting at table”.
“σὺν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “with”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “him”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Then they gave dinner to him there, and Martha was serving, and Lazarus was one of those reclining at table with him.
ἐποίησαν οὖν αὐτῷ δεῖπνον ἐκεῖ καὶ ἡ Μάρθα διηκόνειJohn 12:2) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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