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Title: Search the Scriptures
The text is, “ἐραυνᾶτε τὰς γραφάς, ὅτι ὑμεῖς δοκεῖτε ἐν αὐταῖς ζωὴν αἰώνιον ἔχειν· καὶ ἐκεῖναί εἰσιν αἱ μαρτυροῦσαι περὶ ἐμοῦ”.
“ἐραυνᾶτε”: second person, plural, present, active, imperative verb meaning “search”.
“τὰς”: feminine, plural, accusative article meaning “the”.
“γραφάς”: feminine, plural, accusative noun meaning “scriptures”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating causative conjunction meaning “for”.
“ὑμεῖς”: second person, personal, plural, nominative pronoun meaning “you”.
“δοκεῖτε”: second person, plural, present, active, indicative verb meaning “suppose” or “think”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in”.
“αὐταῖς”: third person, personal, feminine, plural, dative pronoun meaning “them”.
“ζωὴν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “life”.
“αἰώνιον”: feminine, singular, accusative adjective meaning “eternal”.
“ἔχειν”: present, active, infinitive verb meaning “to have”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἐκεῖναί”: feminine, plural, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “they”.
“εἰσιν”: third person, plural, present, indicative verb meaning “are”.
“αἱ”: feminine, plural, nominative article meaning “those”.
“μαρτυροῦσαι”: present, active, participial, feminine, plural, nominative verb meaning “bearing witness”.
“περὶ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “about”.
“ἐμοῦ”: first person, personal, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “me”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Search the scriptures, for you think in them to have eternal life, and they are those bearing witness about me.
ἐραυνᾶτε τὰς γραφάς (John 5:39) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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