Mar 5:23 | RWP | e4.org | My little daughter ( το θυγατριον μου ). Diminutive of θυγατηρ ( ). "This little endearing touch in the use of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark" (Vincent). "Is at the point of death" ( εσχατως εχε ). Has it in the last stages. has: "has just died" ( αρτ ετελευσεν ), Luke "she lay a dying" ( απεθνησκεν , imperfect, she was dying). It was a tragic moment for Jairus. I pray thee , not in the Greek. This ellipsis before ινα not uncommon, a sort of imperative use of ινα and the subjunctive in the Koine (Robertson, Grammar , p. 943).

‏ Mark 5:23

My little daughter ( το θυγατριον μου ). Diminutive of θυγατηρ (Mt 9:18). "This little endearing touch in the use of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark" (Vincent). "Is at the point of death" ( εσχατως εχε ). Has it in the last stages. Mt 9:18 has: "has just died" ( αρτ ετελευσεν ), Luke "she lay a dying" ( απεθνησκεν, imperfect, she was dying). It was a tragic moment for Jairus.

I pray thee, not in the Greek. This ellipsis before ινα not uncommon, a sort of imperative use of ινα and the subjunctive in the Koine (Robertson, Grammar, p. 943).