λέγοντος, (legontos) in Matthew 1:22: Verb Present Active Participle Genitive Singular Masculine

Verb: the form is a participle built from a speaking verb, so it functions verbally while also behaving like an adjective.

Present: often views the action as in progress, customary, or presently in view. Context decides the exact force.

Active: presents the subject as doing or carrying the action.

Participle: carries a verbal idea while also functioning like an adjective or clause element. Context decides its role.

Genitive: the form appears in a genitive relation here, and that case helps link it to the nearby noun phrase rather than standing alone.

Singular: the form is grammatically singular in this occurrence, matching a single referent in the clause frame.

Masculine: the form is marked masculine in grammar, but this is a formal agreement feature and does not by itself state anything about biological or theological gender.

It is attached to the phrase about the prophet, διὰ τοῦ προφήτου, and follows it closely in the sentence.

It is governed by the surrounding genitive construction, so it works as a participial modifier connected to the prophetic speaker being referenced.

It identifies the prophet as the one speaking the quoted content, and it helps connect the citation to a spoken prophetic message.

It does not introduce a new event, and it does not shift the meaning of the passage away from fulfillment of the cited word.

High: The participle links the fulfillment statement to the prophet speaking the cited word.

Genitive participle describing the prophet. connects the quoted content to prophetic speech. Attached to the prophet speaking the cited content. Governed by the fulfillment formula in Matthew 1:22. The genitive participle describes the prophet and should not be made into a separate event.

Who is described as speaking in the fulfillment formula? The prophet is described as speaking the cited content.

Direct: The participle directly supports a rendering such as "through the prophet, saying."

The genitive relation links the participle to the prophet phrase; the fulfillment statement supplies the larger claim. The present participle should not be used to create a separate speech event outside the quotation formula.

Participle creates a new main event: The participle describes the prophet in the fulfillment formula; the sentence carries the fulfillment claim. case ending carries theology by itself: Genitive case marks relation in the phrase; Matthew supplies the theological frame.

The witness reads λέγοντος in Matthew 1:22 within the phrase διὰ τοῦ προφήτου, λέγοντος, so the form sits in a citation frame.

The lemma is λέγω, meaning to say or speak, and the participle naturally points to speech or quotation activity.

Here the participle works with the prophet phrase to mark the prophetic saying as the source of the quoted content, without needing to add more than the context gives.

The verse says that what happened fulfills what was spoken by the Lord through the prophet who is speaking in the citation.

This fits the Gospel pattern of presenting Scripture as a spoken word that finds fulfillment in the narrated event.

For readers, the form signals that the focus is on a quoted prophetic utterance, not on the prophet as a separate main clause actor.

Do not derive a separate doctrinal claim from the masculine genitive form, and do not overread the participle as more than a citation link.