Colossians 2:20

The greek text ^BETA

Nestle AlandTextus Receptus

Manuscript comments

NA has 15 words, TR has 17 (+2).

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Εἰ
If ἀπεθάνετε
you have died σὺν
with Χριστῷ
Christ ἀπὸ
away from τῶν
the στοιχείων
principles τοῦ
of the κόσμου,
world, τί
why ὡς
as if ζῶντες
living ἐν
in κόσμῳ
[the] world, δογματίζεσθε;
do you submit to decrees:

Interlinear — table

Below is an interlinear version in table form that follows the word order of the original text. Clicking on the Strongs number will show the words in their basic form (note that sometimes the grammar causes not only the endings to change, but also the initial letters of the word).

Strongs nr	Greek	English	Grammar	Code
G1487	Εἰ (Ei)	If	Cond. part./conj. Conditional Particle or Conjunction	COND
G0599	ἀπεθάνετε (apethanete)	you have died	VERB Verb 2nd aorist active ind. second aorist active indicative pl. second person plural	V-2AAI-2P
G4862	σὺν (syn)	with	Preposition Preposition	PREP
G5547	Χριστῷ (Christo)	Christ	Noun Noun dative sing. ♂ dative singular masculine Title (title)	N-DSM-T
G0575	ἀπὸ (apo)	away from	Preposition Preposition	PREP
G3588	τῶν (ton)	the	Definite article Definite article gen. pl. neut. genitive plural Neutral	T-GPN
G4747	στοιχείων (stoicheion)	principles	Noun Noun gen. pl. neut. genitive plural Neutral	N-GPN
G3588	τοῦ (toy)	of the	Definite article Definite article gen. sing. ♂ genitive singular masculine	T-GSM
G2889	κόσμου, (kosmoy,)	world,	Noun Noun gen. sing. ♂ genitive singular masculine	N-GSM
G5101	τί (ti)	why	Interrogative pron. Interrogative/Uncertain pronoun acc. sing. neut. accusative singular Neutral	I-ASN
G5613	ὡς (os)	as if	Conj. Conjunktion	CONJ
G2198	ζῶντες (zontes)	living	VERB Verb pres. active part. present active Participle nom. pl. ♂ Nominative plural masculine	V-PAP-NPM
G1722	ἐν (en)	in	Preposition Preposition	PREP
G2889	κόσμῳ (kosmo)	[the] world,	Noun Noun dative sing. ♂ dative singular masculine	N-DSM
G1379	δογματίζεσθε; (dogmatizesthe;)	do you submit to decrees:	VERB Verb pres. pass. ind. present passive indicative pl. second person plural	V-PPI-2P

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