Luk 19:4 | RWP | e4.org | Ran on before ( προδραμων εις το εμπροσθεν ). Second aorist active participle of προτρεχω (defective verb). "Before" occurs twice ( προ- and εις το εμπροσθεν ). Into a sycamore tree ( επ συκομορεαν ). From συκον , fig, and μορον , mulberry. The fig-mulberry and quite a different tree from the sycamine tree in , which see. It bore a poor fruit which poor people ate ( ). It was a wide open tree with low branches so that Zacchaeus could easily climb into it. That way ( εκεινης ). Feminine for οδος (way) is understood. Genitive case with δ in composition ( διερχεσθα ) or as an adverbial use.

‏ Luke 19:4

Ran on before ( προδραμων εις το εμπροσθεν ). Second aorist active participle of προτρεχω (defective verb). "Before" occurs twice ( προ- and εις το εμπροσθεν ).

Into a sycamore tree ( επ συκομορεαν ). From συκον, fig, and μορον, mulberry. The fig-mulberry and quite a different tree from the sycamine tree in 17:6, which see. It bore a poor fruit which poor people ate (Am 7:14). It was a wide open tree with low branches so that Zacchaeus could easily climb into it.

That way ( εκεινης ). Feminine for οδος (way) is understood. Genitive case with δ in composition ( διερχεσθα ) or as an adverbial use.