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Title: So They Called the Man who had Been Blind a Second Time*
The text is, “Ἐφώνησαν οὖν τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐκ δευτέρου ὃς ἦν τυφλὸς καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· δὸς δόξαν τῷ θεῷ· ἡμεῖς οἴδαμεν ὅτι οὗτος ὁ ἄνθρωπος ἁμαρτωλός ἐστιν”.
“Ἐφώνησαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “they called”.
“οὖν”: coordinating inferential conjunction meaning “so”.
“τὸν”: masculine, singular, accusative article meaning “the”.
“ἄνθρωπον”: masculine, singular, accusative noun meaning “man”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “for” but it is not rendered into English here.
“δευτέρου”: neuter, singular, genitive, ordinal adjective meaning “a second”.
“ὃς”: masculine, singular, nominative, definite, relative pronoun meaning “who”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “had been”.
“τυφλὸς”: masculine, singular, nominative adjective meaning “blind”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“εἶπαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “said”.
“αὐτῷ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun meaning “to him”.
“δὸς”: second person, singular, present, active, imperative verb meaning “give”.
“δόξαν”: feminine, singular, accusative noun meaning “glory”.
“τῷ”: masculine, singular, dative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“θεῷ”: masculine, singular, dative noun meaning “to God”.
“ἡμεῖς”: first person, personal, plural, nominative pronoun meaning “we”.
“οἴδαμεν”: first person, plural, perfect, active, indicative verb meaning “know”.
“ὅτι”: subordinating complementary conjunction meaning “that”.
“οὗτος”: masculine, singular, nominative, demonstrative pronoun meaning “this”.
“ὁ”: masculine, singular, nominative article meaning “the” but it is not rendered into English here.
“ἄνθρωπος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “man”.
“ἁμαρτωλός”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “a sinner”.
“ἐστιν”: third person, singular, present, indicative verb meaning “is”.
The meaning of this verse is,
So they called the man who had been blind a second time*, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
* “time” is supplied to clarify meaning here.
Ἐφώνησαν οὖν τὸν ἄνθρωπον ἐκ δευτέρου ὃς ἦν τυφλὸς (John 9:24) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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