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My little daughter (to thugatrion mou). Diminutive of thugatēr (Mat 9:18). “This little endearing touch in the use of the diminutive is peculiar to Mark” (Vincent). “Is at the point of death” (eschatōs echei). Has it in the last stages. Mat 9:18 has: “has just died” (arti eteleusen), Luke “she lay a dying” (apethnēsken, imperfect, she was dying). It was a tragic moment for Jairus.
I pray thee, not in the Greek. This ellipsis before hina not uncommon, a sort of imperative use of hina and the subjunctive in the Koiné (Robertson, Grammar, p. 943).