μοι, (moi) in Revelation 22:6: P-1DS
μοι, (moi) in Revelation 22:6
Textual Witness
The text reads 'Καὶ εἶπέ μοι, Οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι', so the form stands in a direct speech setting with a clear recipient.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The form makes the utterance personal and directed, so the reader hears the sentence as speech delivered to a specific witness rather than as an abstract statement.
How To Communicate It
For readers, the grammar clarifies that the message is received, not merely announced, and that the reassurance about the words is spoken into the narrator's hearing.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- The dative here indicates relationship in the sentence, but it does not by itself settle every interpretive question.
- Do not make grammatical gender into a theological gender claim.
What Does The Label Mean?
Pronoun: the word refers to a speaker or other participant already identified in context, rather than naming that participant.
Dative: the form usually marks an indirect object, recipient, or related reference, and here it fits the spoken address after 'said'.
Singular: the form is grammatically singular in this occurrence, so it points to one referent in the dialogue frame.
Feminine: the source morphology here does not mark feminine gender, so no feminine gender claim should be drawn from this form.
What The Form Does In This Verse
εἶπέ
The pronoun follows the speech verb and is best read as the person spoken to or affected by the speaking event.
It functions as the indirect object, indicating that the words are being said to the implied recipient of the message.
It is not the grammatical subject of the clause, and it does not name a new speaker or alter the lemma.
How Much The Form Matters Here
Moderate: The dative pronoun identifies the recipient of the speech in the closing vision.
Recipient of the speech verb. marks the person to whom the words are spoken. Attached to the verb he said. Governed by the speech verb. The form tracks the communication scene and should not be made to name the speaker or content.
Who receives the speech? The dative pronoun marks the recipient of the words being spoken.
Direct: The dative directly supports the recipient rendering "to me."
The pronoun identifies the hearer, not the speaker or the message's content.
Dative always carries the same nuance: Here the dative marks speech recipient; other dative uses require local review.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The text reads 'Καὶ εἶπέ μοι, Οὗτοι οἱ λόγοι', so the form stands in a direct speech setting with a clear recipient.
The lemma is ἐγώ, here in an enclitic dative singular form meaning 'to me' or 'to me, for me' in context.
The dative form fits the verb 'said' and points to the one being addressed, while the surrounding words identify the message as a declaration about the words that follow.
The sentence communicates that someone speaks directly to the narrator, affirming the reliability of the words that are about to be stated.
Across Scripture, such a pronoun commonly marks a personal address in narrative and prophecy, helping the reader track who receives revelation.
In translation or teaching, this form is best rendered with a brief recipient phrase such as 'to me' so the direction of speech remains clear.
Do not derive emphasis, theology, or special status from the case alone, and do not treat the pronoun as changing the identity of the lemma.