τηρῶν (teron) in Revelation 22:7: Verb Present Active Participle Nominative Singular Masculine

Verb: this form functions as a participle, so it acts verbally while also naming a participant in the clause.

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.

Nominative: the participle is marked to stand in a nominative relation here, which fits its use with the article as a descriptive unit for the blessed one.

Singular: the form is grammatically singular in this occurrence, matching a single referred-to person rather than a group.

Masculine: the participle is grammatically masculine, which here follows the form of the noun phrase and does not by itself make a theological claim about gender.

ὁ

The article and participle together form a descriptive subject phrase within μακάριος ὁ τηρῶν. The participle is shaped by the surrounding blessing statement and points to the one described as keeping the words.

It identifies the person who is called blessed, namely the one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book.

It is not the main finite verb of the verse, and it does not by itself tell how the keeping happens beyond the context of obedient attention.

High: The participle identifies the blessed person as the one keeping the prophecy's words.

Present active participle, nominative singular masculine. describes the person who keeps the words of the prophecy. Attached to the article in the blessed person phrase. Governed by the beatitude in Revelation 22:7. The participle identifies the keeper; the blessing frame supplies the beatitude.

Who is called blessed in this verse? The one who keeps the words of the prophecy of this book is called blessed.

Direct: The participle directly supports the one who keeps or the one who observes.

Present participle describes the keeper in this beatitude and should not be turned into a mechanical duration claim. Masculine agreement is grammatical and does not restrict the blessing to males. The form does not define all obedience; the verse specifies keeping these prophetic words.

Present participle creates works-righteousness: The participle identifies the blessed keeper in the verse; it should be read within the book's call to faithful response. participle alone creates the blessing: The participle names the person, while the beatitude frame states the blessing.

The witness reads τηρῶν in Revelation 22:7 within the clause μακάριος ὁ τηρῶν τοὺς λόγους.

The lemma τηρέω regularly means to keep, guard, or observe, so the form carries the sense of careful adherence or watchful custody in context.

The present participle presents the person as characterized by ongoing keeping, while the nominative article phrase makes that person the one being described as blessed.

The verse blesses the one who gives heed to and keeps the words of the prophecy of this book, in contrast to merely hearing them.

This fits the book's repeated emphasis on receiving, observing, and holding to prophetic words as a faithful response.

For readers or hearers, the form highlights an enduring posture of faithful attention, not a single isolated act.

Do not infer that the participle alone proves perfection, permanence, or a specific detailed method of obedience.