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Title: Now it was Near the Passover of the Jews
The text is, “Ἦν δὲ ἐγγὺς τὸ πάσχα τῶν Ἰουδαίων, καὶ ἀνέβησαν πολλοὶ εἰς Ἱεροσόλυμα ἐκ τῆς χώρας πρὸ τοῦ πάσχα ἵνα ἁγνίσωσιν ἑαυτούς”.
“Ἦν”: third person, singular, imperfect, indicative verb meaning “it was”.
“δὲ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “now”.
“ἐγγὺς”: temporal adverb meaning “near”.
“τὸ”: neuter, singular, nominative article meaning “the”.
“πάσχα”: neuter, singular, nominative noun meaning “passover”.
“τῶν”: masculine, plural, genitive article meaning “of the”.
“Ἰουδαίων”: masculine, plural, genitive, proper noun meaning “Jews”.
“καὶ”: coordinating conjunction meaning “and”.
“ἀνέβησαν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, indicative verb meaning “went up”.
“πολλοὶ”: masculine, plural, nominative adjective meaning “many”.
“εἰς”: preposition taking the accusative for its object word and meaning “to” or “into”.
“Ἱεροσόλυμα”: neuter, singular, accusative, proper noun meaning “Jerusalem”.
“ἐκ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “from”.
“τῆς”: feminine, singular, genitive article meaning “the”.
“χώρας”: feminine, singular, genitive noun meaning “region”.
“πρὸ”: preposition taking the genitive for its object word and meaning “before”.
“τοῦ”: neuter, singular, genitive article meaning “the”.
“πάσχα”: neuter, singular, genitive noun meaning “passover”.
“ἵνα”: subordinating purposive conjunction meaning “so that”.
“ἁγνίσωσιν”: third person, plural, aorist, active, subjunctive verb meaning “they might purify”.
“ἑαυτούς”: third person, personal, masculine, plural, accusative, reflexive pronoun meaning “themselves”.
The meaning of this verse is,
Now it was near the passover of the Jews, and many went up into Jerusalem before the passover, so that they might purify themselves.
Ἦν δὲ ἐγγὺς τὸ πάσχα τῶν Ἰουδαίων (John 11:55) by Dennis Glover is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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