For an Informed Love of God
Bill Mounce
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δέ (δ᾽)
Vocabulary form:
δέ
Definition:
and; but
Erasmian:
Modern:
Frequency:
2,792
GK:
1254
Mnemonic Singing:
Amazing grace how sweet the sound,
hat saved a wretch like me.
I once was lost but now am found,
was blind but now I see.
Notes:
dev is a postpositive. This means that it cannot be the first word in a sentence or clause, even though in your translation it is the first word. It usually is the second word and sometimes the third, e.g., oJ de; ei\pon ....
Biblical Concordance
| John 9:15 | Then the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. And (de | δέ | conj) he said to them, “He daubed mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.” |
| John 9:16 | Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.” But (de | δέ | conj) others said, “How can a sinful man perform miraculous signs like this?” And there was a division among them. |
| John 9:17 | So they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since it was your eyes that he opened?” The man replied, “He is a prophet.” |
| John 9:21 | but (de | δέ | conj) how it is that he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him, he is an adult. He will speak for himself.” |
| John 9:28 | Then they scoffed at him, saying, “You are a disciple of that man! But (de | δέ | conj) we are disciples of Moses! |
| John 9:29 | We know that God has spoken to Moses, but (de | δέ | conj) as for this fellow, we do not even know where he comes from.” |
| John 9:38 | Then (de | δέ | conj) the man said, “I believe, Lord,” and he bowed in reverence before him. |
| John 9:41 | Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but (de | δέ | conj) now you are saying, ‘We can see,’ so your guilt remains. |
| John 10:2 | But (de | δέ | conj) the one who enters by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. |
| John 10:5 | They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers.” |
| John 10:6 | Jesus told them this figurative story, but (de | δέ | conj) they did not understand what he was saying to them. |
| John 10:20 | Many of them were saying, “He is demon-possessed and out of control. Why are you listening to him?” |
| John 10:38 | but (de | δέ | conj) if I am doing them, even if you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may come to know and be certain that the Father is in me and that I am in the Father.” |
| John 10:41 | Many people came to him and were saying, “John performed no miraculous sign, but (de | δέ | conj) everything he said about this man was true!” |
| John 11:1 | Now (de | δέ | conj) there was a certain man who was ill, Lazareth of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. |
| John 11:2 | It was this Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill. |
| John 11:4 | But (de | δέ | conj) when Jesus heard this, he said, “This illness will not lead to death, but is for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.” |
| John 11:5 | Now (de | δέ | conj) Jesus loved Martha and her sister and Lazarus. |
| John 11:10 | But (de | δέ | conj) if someone walks during the night, he will stumble, because the light is not in him.” |
| John 11:13 | Jesus, however (de | δέ | conj), had been speaking of his death, but (de | δέ | conj) they thought that he was speaking about sleep in the sense of slumber. |
| John 11:18 | Bethany was near Jerusalem, about two miles away, |
| John 11:19 | and (de | δέ | conj) many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them in regard to their brother. |
| John 11:20 | So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but (de | δέ | conj) Mary remained in the house. |
| John 11:29 | So (de | δέ | conj) when Mary heard this, she got up quickly and went to him. |
| John 11:30 | Now (de | δέ | conj) Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had met him. |
| John 11:37 | But (de | δέ | conj) some of them said, “Was not this man, who could open the eyes of the blind man, able to do something so that Lazarus would not have died?” |
| John 11:38 | Then Jesus, once more deeply moved, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying across it. |
| John 11:41 | So they took away the stone. Then (de | δέ | conj) Jesus lifted up his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you have heard me. |
| John 11:42 | I know that you always hear me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, that they may believe that you sent me.” |
| John 11:46 | Some of them, however (de | δέ | conj), went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done. |
| John 11:49 | But (de | δέ | conj) one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said to them, “You know nothing at all. |
| John 11:51 | He did not say this on his own, but being high priest that year he was prophesying that Jesus was about to die for the nation, |
| John 11:55 | Now (de | δέ | conj) the Passover of the Jews was near, and many went up to Jerusalem from the country prior to the Passover to purify themselves. |
| John 11:57 | Now (de | δέ | conj) the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that if anyone knew where Jesus was he should let them know, so they might arrest him. |
| John 12:2 | So they made a dinner for him there. Martha was serving, and (de | δέ | conj) Lazarus was one of those reclining at the table with him. |
| John 12:3 | Mary took more than a pint of expensive perfume made of pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus and dried them with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume. |
| John 12:4 | But (de | δέ | conj) Judas Iscariot, one of his disciples (the one who would betray him) said, |
| John 12:6 | He said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as keeper of the money box, he used to help himself to what was put into it. |
| John 12:8 | For you will always have the poor with you, but (de | δέ | conj) you will not always have me.” |
| John 12:10 | So (de | δέ | conj) the chief priests made plans to put Lazarus to death as well, |
| John 12:14 | And (de | δέ | conj) Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it; as it is written, |
| John 12:20 | Now (de | δέ | conj) there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. |
| John 12:23 | And (de | δέ | conj) Jesus answered them, saying, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. |
| John 12:24 | I tell you the solemn truth, unless a kernel of wheat falls into the ground and dies, it remains a single kernel; but (de | δέ | conj) if it dies it produces a great harvest. |
| John 12:33 | He said this to signify the kind of death he was going to die. |
| John 12:37 | Though he had done such great signs in their presence, they continued in their unbelief toward him, |
| John 12:44 | Then (de | δέ | conj) Jesus cried out, saying, “The one who believes in me believes not only in me but in the one who sent me. |
| John 13:1 | It was just before the festival of Passover, and Jesus, knowing that his hour had come to depart from this world to the Father, showed his love to his own who were in the world, loving them to the very end. |
| John 13:7 | Jesus answered him, saying, “What I am doing you do not understand now, but (de | δέ | conj) you will come to understand later.” |
| John 13:20 | I tell you the solemn truth, whoever receives one whom I send receives me, and (de | δέ | conj) whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.” |