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Title: Now One Man was There
The text is, “ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ τριάκοντα [καὶ] ὀκτὼ ἔτη ἔχων ἐν τῇ ἀσθενείᾳ αὐτοῦ”.
“ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “was”.
“δέ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “now”.
“τις”: masculine, singular, nominative, indefinite pronoun meaning “one”.
“ἄνθρωπος”: masculine, singular, nominative noun meaning “man”.
“ἐκεῖ”: adverb of place meaning “there”.
“τριάκοντα”: neuter, plural, accusative, cardinal adjective meaning “thirty”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ὀκτὼ”: neuter, plural, accusative, cardinal adjective meaning “eight”.
“ἔτη”: neuter, plural, accusative noun meaning “years”.
“ἔχων”: present, active, participial, masculine, singular, nominative verb meaning “having been”.
“ἐν”: preposition taking the dative for its object word and meaning “in”.
“τῇ”: feminine, singular, dative article meaning “the”.
“ἀσθενείᾳ”: feminine, singular, dative noun meaning “sickness”, “weakness”, or “infirmity”.
“αὐτοῦ”: third person, personal, masculine, singular, genitive pronoun meaning “himself”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Now, one man was there, having been in the sickness thirty and eight years himself.”
ἦν δέ τις ἄνθρωπος ἐκεῖ (John 5:5) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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