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Title -> A Woman of Samaria Came
The text is, Ἔρχεται γυνὴ ἐκ τῆς Σαμαρείας ἀντλῆσαι ὕδωρ. λέγει αὐτῇ ὁ Ἰησοῦς· δός μοι πεῖν
Ἔρχεται -> third person, singular, present, middle, indicative verb -> comes CER* came
γυνὴ -> feminine, singular, nominative noun -> a woman
ἐκ -> preposition taking the genitive or its object word -> from or of
τῆς -> feminine, singular, genitive article -> the NRIEH**
Σαμαρείας -> feminine, singular, genitive, proper noun -> Samaria
ἀντλῆσαι -> aorist, active, infinitive verb -> to draw
ὕδωρ -> neuter, singular, accusative noun -> water
λέγε -> third person, singular, present, active, indicative verb -> said
αὐτῇ -> third person, personal, feminine, singular, dative pronoun -> to her
ὁ -> masculine, singular, nominative article -> the NRIEH
Ἰησοῦς -> masculine, singular, nominative, proper noun -> Jesus
δός -> second person, singular, aorist, active, imperative verb -> give
μοι -> first person, personal, masculine, singular, dative pronoun -> to me
πεῖν -> aorist, active, imperative verb -> to drink
The meaning of this verse is,
A woman of Samaria came to draw water. Jesus said to her, Give me to drink.
*CER: indicates a non-literal, but good translation. In the first example here, the verb “ἔρχεται” is present tense, which in the indicative mood often can be rendered in the aorist tense, since it expresses linear action not in the present but at some point in the past. The designation CER is equivalent to “Contextual English Rendering”.
**NRIEH: For the sake of clarity the word is translated into English, but to avoid such odd constructions as applying a definite article (“the”) to a substantive sufficiently determined by its being a proper noun, or by the use of a qualifier other than the definite article. An example would be the basic translation “Peter said to the Jesus”; the word “the” is completely unnecessary. There are many examples of this in the New Testament. The designation NRIEH is equivalent to “Not Rendered Into English Here”.
Ἔρχεται γυνὴ ἐκ τῆς Σαμαρείας (John 4:7) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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