ὅτι αὕτηplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigοὗτος / αὕτη /τοῦτο
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Meaning:
* These or this * This one, this person, this thing * They or he or she or it
Demonstrative pronoun.
οὗτος usually refers to something close to the speaker — “this” as opposed to ἐκεῖνος (John 9:161 John 5:111 Corinthians 15:501 John 4:9John 5:1Matthew 3:17John 7:26Luke 22:19 ἐστὶνplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigεἰμί
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εἰμί is the first person singular verb for “to be” (εἶναι [the infinitive form] = “to be”).
It an irregular verb, and, like English, changes significantly between person and tense. For example εἰμί is the word for am and ἦν is the word for was, e.g. ἡplugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigὁ
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The definite article ἀγγελία ἣν ἠκούσατε ἀπ’ ἀρχῆς,plugin-autotooltip__default plugin-autotooltip_bigἀρχή
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Meaning:
* Beginning * First * Elementary * Rulers, rule, domain
Noun, feminine (first declension)
Occurs 56 times in the New Testament, consistently conveying the idea of primacy - whether temporal (i.e. the start, e.g. John 1:1) or causal (i.e. the source) or governmental (i.e. the ruler, e.g. Ephesians 6:12 ἵνα ἀγαπῶμεν ἀλλήλους·
