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Hebrew and Greek Without Learning Either
A walk through Genesis, the Psalms, and John, plus the key Hebrew and Greek words worth knowing. Each card is a place the English Bibles part company, and what in the Hebrew or Greek made them.
John 2:4b
Mine hour is not yet come. A word John uses as a countdown to one event.
John 2:4, in every translation this tool compares.
His hour had come. English uses hour for a decisive moment too, and never means sixty minutes when it does.
Because hour here is not a time of day, it is a fixed reference to the cross, and John repeats it through the whole Gospel until it arrives.
Every version reads hour or time.
ὥρα hora · G5610
Hora is an hour, but John uses it as a technical marker. It is not yet come at 2:4, 7:30 and 8:20; it has come at 12:23, 13:1 and 17:1. The pattern is a structural device across the book.
English hour carries the decisive sense, so little is lost in the word. What is lost is that these are the same word used deliberately across twenty chapters.
When a common word recurs in the same phrasing across a book, track every occurrence before interpreting any one of them.
Hour is the majority rendering and no version departs.
- Not yet: John 2:4; 7:30; 8:20
- Has come: John 12:23; 13:1; 17:1
- The same device with semeion and with I am
