4 We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
Source Text Study
Relevant source witnesses currently attached to John 9:4. Some ancient sources use different book or verse structures, so availability notes call out gaps honestly instead of forcing five panels everywhere.
How to read this study data
Source panels are separated by tradition and license. Imported or dataset-backed morphology is stronger than generated or rule-aligned morphology, and editorial alignment notes explain source-structure exceptions without pretending to be ancient source text.
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Coverage: New Testament
Greek New Testament source layer with imported morphology.
Ἐμὲ δεῖ ἐργάζεσθαι τὰ ἔργα τοῦ πέμψαντός με ἕως ἡμέρα ἐστίν· ἔρχεται νύξ, ὅτε οὐδεὶς δύναται ἐργάζεσθαι.
Ἐμὲ
δεῖ
ἐργάζεσθαι
- Lemma
- ergazesqai
- Transliteration
- ergazesqai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present middle/passive deponent infinitive
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G2038
- Occurrences
- 6
τὰ
ἔργα
τοῦ
πέμψαντός
με
ἕως
ἡμέρα
ἐστίν
ἔρχεται
νύξ
ὅτε
οὐδεὶς
δύναται
ἐργάζεσθαι
- Lemma
- ergazesqai
- Transliteration
- ergazesqai
- Morphology
- Greek: verb present middle/passive deponent infinitive
- Part of Speech
- verb
- Strong's
- G2038
- Occurrences
- 6
Coverage: New Testament sample / proof panel
Proof-of-flow source panel, not full coverage.
ἡμᾶς δεῖ ἐργάζεσθαι τὰ ἔργα τοῦ πέμψαντός ἡμᾶς ἕως ἡμέρα ἐστίν· ἔρχεται νὺξ ὅτε οὐδεὶς δύναται ἐργάζεσθαι.
τὰ
τοῦ
ἐστίν·
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.
ܠܝ ܘܠܐ ܠܡܥܒܕ ܥܒܕܐ ܕܡܢ ܕܫܕܪܢܝ ܥܕ ܐܝܡܡܐ ܗܘ ܐܬܐ ܠܠܝܐ ܕܐܢܫ ܠܐ ܡܫܟܚ ܠܡܦܠܚ
ܠܝ
- 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
- ܠܝ
- Transliteration
- ly
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 440
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
ܠܡܥܒܕ
- 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
- ܠܡܥܒܕ
- Transliteration
- lm'bd
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 36
ܥܒܕܐ
- 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
- ܥܒܕܐ
- Transliteration
- 'bd'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 132
ܕܡܢ
- 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
- ܕܡܢ
- Transliteration
- dmn
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 259
ܕܫܕܪܢܝ
- 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
- ܕܫܕܪܢܝ
- Transliteration
- dshdrny
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 27
ܥܕ
- 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
- ܥܕ
- Transliteration
- 'd
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 22
ܐܝܡܡܐ
- 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
- ܐܝܡܡܐ
- Transliteration
- 'ymm'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a
- Occurrences
- 9
ܗܘ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܗܘ
- Transliteration
- hu
- Morphology
- pronoun/copula, masculine singular
- Gloss
- he, it, is
- Occurrences
- 1648
ܐܬܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܐܬܐ
- Transliteration
- etha
- Morphology
- verb root/form
- Gloss
- came
- Occurrences
- 243
ܠܠܝܐ
- 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
- ܠܠܝܐ
- Transliteration
- lly'
- Morphology
- probable emphatic-state noun/adjective or verbal form ending in -a; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 17
ܕܐܢܫ
- 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
- ܕܐܢܫ
- Transliteration
- d'nsh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed relative/genitive marker d-
- Occurrences
- 31
ܠܐ
- Confidence
- medium preliminary Syriac rule/lexicon alignment
- Note
- Spirit Nation preliminary Syriac lexicon alignment. Useful for search and first-pass study; review before labeling as verified scholarship.
- Lemma
- ܠܐ
- Transliteration
- la
- Morphology
- negative particle
- Gloss
- not
- Occurrences
- 1681
ܡܫܟܚ
- 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
- ܡܫܟܚ
- Transliteration
- mshkh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review
- Occurrences
- 106
ܠܡܦܠܚ
- 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
- ܠܡܦܠܚ
- Transliteration
- lmplh
- Morphology
- Syriac source token; morphology requires contextual review; possible prefixed preposition l-
- Occurrences
- 7
Coverage: Bible and Apocrypha where imported
Latin textual tradition with GreLa-backed lemma/POS morphology for most tokens.
Me oportet operari opera ejus qui misit me, donec dies est: venit nox, quando nemo potest operari:
me
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ego
- Transliteration
- me
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 6108
oportet
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- oportet
- Transliteration
- oportet
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 121
operari
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- operor
- Transliteration
- operari
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 234
opera
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- opus
- Transliteration
- opera
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 656
eius
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- is
- Transliteration
- eius
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 17810
qui
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- qui
- Transliteration
- qui
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 15011
misit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- mitto
- Transliteration
- misit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 1165
me
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- ego
- Transliteration
- me
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 6108
donec
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- donec
- Transliteration
- donec
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 328
dies
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- dies
- Transliteration
- dies
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 2559
est
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- sum
- Transliteration
- est
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 20614
venit
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- uenio
- Transliteration
- venit
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 2233
nox
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nox
- Transliteration
- nox
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: noun
- Occurrences
- 345
quando
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- quando
- Transliteration
- quando
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: subordinating conjunction
- Occurrences
- 289
nemo
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- nemo
- Transliteration
- nemo
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: pronoun
- Occurrences
- 205
potest
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- possum
- Transliteration
- potest
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 881
operari
- Status
- Dataset-backed morphology
- Lemma
- operor
- Transliteration
- operari
- Morphology
- GreLa POS: verb
- Occurrences
- 234
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