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Friday, August 14, 2009

John 1:48

λέγει αὐτῷ Ναθαναήλ· πόθεν με γινώσκεις; ἀπεκρίθη Ἰησοῦς καὶ εἶπεν αὐτῷ· πρὸ τοῦ σε Φίλιππον φωνῆσαι ὄντα ὑπὸ τὴν συκῆν εἶδόν σε.

Rough Word-by-word:
he says to him Nathanael, "From where me do you know?" Answered Jesus and said to him, "Before the you Philip called when being under the fig tree I saw you."

Smooth Translation:
Nathanael said to him, "From where do you know me?" Jesus answered and said to him, "Before Philip called you, when you were under the fig tree, I saw you."

λέγει verb present active indicative 3rd singular from λέγω (I say) "he said"

αὐτῷ pronoun dative masculine singular "to him"

Ναθαναήλ proper noun nominative masculine singular "Nathanael"

πόθεν adverb "from where"

με pronoun accusative 1st singular "me"

γινώσκεις verb present active indicative 2nd singular from γινώσκω (I know) "you know"

ἀπεκρίθη verb aorist passive indicative 3rd singular from ἀποκρίνομαι (I answer) "he answered"

Ἰησοῦς proper noun nominative masculine singular "Jesus"

καὶ conjunction "and"

εἶπεν verb aorist active indicative 3rd singular from λέγω (I say) "he said"

αὐτῷ pronoun dative masculine singular "to him"

πρὸ preposition with genitive "before"

τοῦ definite article genitive masculine singular "the"

σε pronoun accusative 2nd singular "you"

Φίλιππον proper noun accusative masculine singular "Philip"

φωνῆσαι verb aorist active infinitive from φωνέω (I call) "called"

ὄντα present participle accusative masculine singular from εἰμί (I am) "when being"

ὑπὸ preposition with accusative "under"

τὴν definite article accusative feminine singular "the"

συκῆν noun accusative feminine singular "fig tree"

εἶδόν verb aorist active indicative 1st singular from ὁράω (I see) "I saw"

σε pronoun accusative 2nd singular "you"

2 comments:

Linda Davison said...

It was nice to see some familiar word endings this morning. Sure makes for easier translation - especially with my memory! How awesome that Jesus revealed something of his omniscience to Nathaniel. Of course, we are supposed to see this for ourselves, as well.

marty said...

Linda,
Thanks. I got tripped up on the aorist infinitive. I have to figure out how to make more room in my available memory space.
It IS good to know that Our Lord sees us even when we think we're alone.