πυρί. (puri) in Matthew 3:11: Noun Dative Singular Neuter
πυρί. (puri) in Matthew 3:11
Textual Witness
The witness reads πυρί. in Matthew 3:11.
How The Form Affects Interpretation
The noun adds fire to the promised baptism phrase and raises the seriousness of the Coming One's work.
How To Communicate It
Use this form to show that John's promise carries both Spirit language and fire language.
What Not To Say
- Grammatical form should serve context, not override it.
- Do not detach fire from John's wider judgment imagery in the paragraph.
- Do not build a full doctrine from this form alone.
- Do not use morphology to detach the word from Matthew's immediate argument.
What Does The Label Mean?
Noun: the form names a person, place, thing, quality, or concept in the clause.
Dative: Dative marks how the form functions in this occurrence.
Singular: the number should be read from this occurrence, not generalized beyond the clause.
Neuter: grammatical gender marks form agreement and does not by itself make a theological claim.
What The Form Does In This Verse
In
The prepositional phrase after the promised baptism verb
It names fire as part of the phrase describing the Coming One's baptism.
It does not by itself decide whether fire should be read only as judgment, purification, or both.
How Much The Form Matters Here
High: The noun is central to the Spirit-and-fire phrase.
Dative object coordinated in the baptism phrase. names fire as part of the promised baptism language. Attached to in. Governed by the prepositional phrase after the promised baptism verb. The noun should be read with Holy Spirit and the following judgment imagery.
What is named along with Holy Spirit? Fire is named along with Holy Spirit.
Direct: The form directly supports the rendering fire.
The noun is clear, but the theological force of fire should be read with the wider paragraph.
Fire noun alone resolves every interpretation: The occurrence names fire; interpretation must include John's surrounding imagery.
How The Interpretation Is Derived
The witness reads πυρί. in Matthew 3:11.
The lemma pur means fire, and here it stands beside Holy Spirit in John's promise.
The dative noun is coordinated with the Spirit phrase after en.
John says the Coming One will baptize with Holy Spirit and fire.
The form fits John's surrounding imagery of judgment and decisive divine action.
In teaching, hold fire together with the nearby winnowing and chaff imagery rather than isolating the noun.
Do not use the noun alone to settle every interpretive option about fire.