2 Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
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Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to Matthew 15:2. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Διὰ τί οἱ μαθηταί σου παραβαίνουσι τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων; Οὐ γὰρ νίπτονται τὰς χεῖρας αὐτῶν, ὅταν ἄρτον ἐσθίωσιν.
Διὰ
τί
οἱ
μαθηταί
σου
παραβαίνουσι
- Lemma
- parabainousin
- Transliteration
- parabainousin
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present active indicative plural
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G3845
- Occurrences
- 1
τὴν
παράδοσιν
τῶν
πρεσβυτέρων
- Lemma
- presbuterwn
- Transliteration
- presbuterwn
- Morphology
- Greek: adjective genitive plural masculine
- Part of Speech
- adjective
- Strong's
- G4245
- Occurrences
- 22
Οὐ
γὰρ
νίπτονται
τὰς
χεῖρας
αὐτῶν
ὅταν
ἄρτον
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
διατί οἱ μαθηταί σου παραβαίνουσιν τὴν παράδοσιν τῶν πρεσβυτέρων; οὐ γὰρ νίπτονται τὰς χεῖρας ὅταν ἄρτον ἐσθίωσιν.
οἱ
τὴν
τῶν
πρεσβυτέρων;
- Lemma
- πρεσβύτερος
- Morphology
- A-GPM-C
- Part of Speech
- A
- Strong's
- G4245
- Occurrences
- 66
τὰς
Coverage: New Testament
Ancient Syriac translation tradition. Text coverage is imported; word-level morphology is marked pending until a dedicated Syriac morphology source is attached.
ܠܡܢܐ ܬܠܡܝܕܝܟ ܥܒܪܝܢ ܥܠ ܡܫܠܡܢܘܬܐ ܕܩܫܝܫܐ ܘܠܐ ܡܫܝܓܝܢ ܐܝܕܝܗܘܢ ܡܐ ܕܐܟܠܝܢ ܠܚܡܐ
ܠܡܢܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܡܢܐ
- Transliteration
- lmn'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 45
ܬܠܡܝܕܝܟ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܬܠܡܝܕܝܟ
- Transliteration
- tlmydyk
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 5
ܥܒܪܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܒܪܝܢ
- Transliteration
- 'bryn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 5
ܥܠ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܥܠ
- Transliteration
- 'l
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 909
ܡܫܠܡܢܘܬܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܫܠܡܢܘܬܐ
- Transliteration
- mshlmnwt'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 6
ܕܩܫܝܫܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܩܫܝܫܐ
- Transliteration
- dqshysh'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 4
ܘܠܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܘܠܐ
- Transliteration
- wl'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; prefixed conjunction
- Occurrences
- 732
ܡܫܝܓܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܫܝܓܝܢ
- Transliteration
- mshygyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending
- Occurrences
- 3
ܐܝܕܝܗܘܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܐܝܕܝܗܘܢ
- Transliteration
- 'ydyhwn
- Morphology
- possible masculine plural or verbal/pronominal ending
- Occurrences
- 12
ܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܡܐ
- Transliteration
- m'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 184
ܕܐܟܠܝܢ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܕܐܟܠܝܢ
- Transliteration
- d'klyn
- Morphology
- possible plural/participle or finite verbal ending; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 10
ܠܚܡܐ
- Confidence
- low preliminary Syriac pattern
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac pattern classification. It improves searchability and display coverage, but exact parsing requires human or dataset review.
- Lemma
- ܠܚܡܐ
- Transliteration
- lhm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 65
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Quare discipuli tui transgrediuntur traditionem seniorum? non enim lavant manus suas cum panem manducant.
quare
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quare
- Transliteration
- quare
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 224
discipuli
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- discipulus
- Transliteration
- discipuli
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 261
tui
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- tuus
- Transliteration
- tui
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5615
transgrediuntur
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- transgredior
- Transliteration
- transgrediuntur
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 37
traditionem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- traditio
- Transliteration
- traditionem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 14
seniorum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- senex
- Transliteration
- seniorum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adjective
- Occurrences
- 231
non
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- non
- Transliteration
- non
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: adverb
- Occurrences
- 7320
enim
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- enim
- Transliteration
- enim
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: coordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 2392
lavant
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- lauo
- Transliteration
- lavant
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 135
manus
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- manus
- Transliteration
- manus
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 1822
suas
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- suus
- Transliteration
- suas
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 5783
cum
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- cum
- Transliteration
- cum
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 5272
panem
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- panis
- Transliteration
- panem
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 393
manducant
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- manduco
- Transliteration
- manducant
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 177
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