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Wednesday, June 30, 2010

John 6:5

ἐπάρας οὖν τοὺς ὀφθαλμοὺς ὁ Ἰησοῦς καὶ θεασάμενος ὅτι πολὺς ὄχλος ἔρχεται πρὸς αὐτὸν λέγει πρὸς Φίλιππον· πόθεν ἀγοράσωμεν ἄρτους ἵνα φάγωσιν οὗτοι;

Rough Word-by-word:
having lifted up therefore the eyes the Jesus and having looked on that a great crowd is coming toward him he says to Philip, "From where might we buy loaves that they might eat these?"

Smooth Translation:
Therefore Jesus, having lifted up his eyes and having seen a great crowd coming toward him, said to Philip, "Where might we buy loaves that these might eat?"

ἐπάρας aorist active participle nominative singular masculine from ἐπαίρω (I lift up) "having lifted up" (predicate use of the aorist participle - translated as before the action of the main verb)

οὖν post positive conjunction "therefore"

τοὺς definite article dative plural masculine "the"

ὀφθαλμοὺς noun dative plural masculine "eyes"

definite article nominative singular masculine "the"

Ἰησοῦς proper noun nominative singular masculine "Jesus"

καὶ conjunction "and"

θεασάμενος aorist middle participle nominative singular masculine from θεάομαι (I look on, I behold) "having looked on"

ὅτι conjunction "that, because"

πολὺς adjective nominative singular masculine "[a] great"

ὄχλος noun nominative singular masculine "crowd"

ἔρχεται verb present middle deponent 3rd singular from ἔρχομαι (I come) "it is coming"

πρὸς accusative preposition "to, toward"

αὐτὸν pronoun accusative singular masculine "him"

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

πρὸς accusative preposition "to, toward"

Φίλιππον proper noun accusative singular masculine "Philip"

πόθεν interrogative adverb "how, from where"

ἀγοράσωμεν verb aorist active subjunctive 1st plural from ἀγοράζω (I buy) "might we buy"

ἄρτους noun accusative plural masculine "loaves"

ἵνα conjunction with subjunctive "that"

φάγωσιν verb aorist active subjunctive 3rd plural from ἐσθίω (I eat) "they might eat"

οὗτοι demonstrative pronoun nominative plural masculine "these"

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