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N1904ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

BSAAlreadyēdē [even now, at this moment] satiatedkorennumi [need, desire] you are,eimi alreadyēdē [from the very start] you have been enriched,plouteō [wealthy, prosperous, spiritually abundant] apart fromchōris [apart from, separately from] usegō you reigned;basileuō [rulers, reigning with authority, having God's power, ruling with Christ] andkai I wish thatophelon [it would be good, I desire] reallyge you did reign,basileuō [truly reigning, exercising spiritual authority] so thathina alsokai we ourselvesegō yousu [together, in harmony] may reign with.sumbasileuō [co-rulers, sharing power]

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1 Corinthians 4:8quick helps
In a sentencePaul addresses the Corinthians, expressing irony about their perceived spiritual wealth and authority.
Who is speakingThe Apostle Paul, writing to the church in Corinth.
Where we areIn a section where Paul contrasts the arrogance of the Corinthians with the humility of the apostles.
The hard wordκεκορεσμένοι
Take awayThe Corinthians believe they have everything they need, but Paul wishes they truly understood their position.
8 commentators on this verse Gill, Jamieson, Poole, Trapp & more — read them › clause subjectκορέννυμι verbκορέννυμι The sentence as the grammar sees it Open the tree ›
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Deep Study — 1 Corinthians 4:8

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Context — Paul's Irony about Spiritual Wealthgenerated

7For who makes you so superior? What do you have that you did not receive? And if you did receive it, why do you boast as though you did not?
8Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!
9For it seems to me that God has displayed us apostles at the end of the procession, like prisoners appointed for death. We have become a spectacle to the whole world, to angels as well as to men.
10We are fools for Christ, but you are wise in Christ. We are weak, but you are strong. You are honored, but we are dishonored.

1 Corinthians 4:8 presents Paul using irony to confront the Corinthians about their inflated sense of self-importance. He highlights their belief that they are already fulfilled and reigning, contrasting their attitude with the reality of the apostles' suffering. This passage serves to remind the Corinthians of their need for humility and dependence on God, as they navigate their faith and community life.


Cross References

ReferenceText (BSB)
11 Corinthians 1:5For in Him you have been enriched in every way, in all speech and all knowledge,
21 Corinthians 3:1–2Brothers, I could not address you as spiritual, but as worldly—as infants in Christ.
31 Corinthians 5:6Your boasting is not good. Do you not know that a little leaven works through the whole batch of dough?
4Proverbs 13:7One pretends to be rich, but has nothing; another pretends to be poor, yet has great wealth.
5Proverbs 25:14Like clouds and wind without rain is the man who boasts of gifts never given.

The Key Word κεκορεσμένοι, korennumigenerated

The word κεκορεσμένοι (*korennumi*) is a perfect passive participle meaning 'satiated' or 'filled.' It indicates a state of having been satisfied, often in a physical or spiritual sense. In this context, it suggests that the Corinthians feel they have all they need, both materially and spiritually.

The passive form indicates that this state of satisfaction has been achieved by some external influence, rather than by their own efforts. This can imply a critique of their spiritual condition, suggesting they are complacent in their perceived abundance.


How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated

In this study, we consider the verse as rendered in the Berean Standard Bible, which states, "Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich." Other translations, such as the KJV and ASV, use similar phrasing, emphasizing the Corinthians' sense of fulfillment.

However, some translations differ in wording. For example, the YLT uses "having been filled" while the BBE states, "even now you have wealth," highlighting their perceived abundance in different ways.


Sentence Structuregenerated

The main verb of the verse is ἐβασιλεύσατε, you reigned, which governs several clauses and phrases that elaborate on the Corinthians' situation. The structure includes adverbial phrases indicating their current state and a subjunctive clause expressing Paul's desire.

The use of multiple clauses illustrates the contrast between the Corinthians' self-perception and Paul's wish for a different reality. The sentence structure emphasizes the irony in Paul's message.


Septuagint Backgroundgenerated

ἤδη appears in the Septuagint, often translated from the Hebrew word עַתָּ֫ה, meaning 'now.' This connection highlights the continuity of the concept of immediacy in both the Old and New Testaments.

The term βασιλεύω in the Septuagint is related to kingship, paralleling its use in this verse where Paul addresses the notion of reigning, emphasizing authority and rule.


In plain words — the whole versegenerated

1 Corinthians 4:8 shows Paul using irony to address the Corinthians. He points out that they believe they have everything they need and are ruling like kings, but he wishes they truly understood their position. This highlights a disconnect between their self-perception and reality.


Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated

What does Paul mean by saying the Corinthians are already rich?

Paul is using irony to point out that the Corinthians believe they are spiritually wealthy and fulfilled, when in reality, they may be lacking true spiritual maturity.

Why does Paul express a wish that the Corinthians were truly kings?

Paul's wish reflects a desire for the Corinthians to genuinely embody the authority and maturity that they believe they possess, rather than being complacent in their current state.

How does this verse relate to the previous and following verses?

This verse serves as a contrast to the preceding discussion about humility and the apostles' suffering, and it sets the stage for Paul's further elaboration on the true nature of Christian leadership and authority.

What can we learn from Paul's use of irony in this verse?

Paul's irony serves as a reminder to remain humble and aware of our spiritual condition, rather than becoming complacent in our perceived achievements.


Reflection Questionsgenerated

  1. In what ways might I be complacent in my spiritual life, believing I have all I need?
  2. How can I cultivate a deeper understanding of true spiritual wealth?
  3. What does it mean to reign with Christ in my daily life?
  4. How can I support others in recognizing their need for humility and growth?

The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it

Early church fathers comment on this verse to highlight the irony in Paul's message about spiritual wealth and authority.

TertullianOn Modesty c. 155–220
"Know ye not that we are to judge angels? " Again, of how open censure (does) the free expression (find utterance), how manifest the edge of the spiritual sword,
Early Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 4 →
TertullianOn Fasting c. 155–220
For, by this time, in this respect as well as others, "you are reigning in wealth and satiety" -not making inroads upon such sins as fasts diminish, nor feeling need of such revelations as xerophagies extort,
Early Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 4 →
John ChrysostomHomily on 1 Corinthians 12 c. 347–407
"Already ye are filled, already ye are rich:" that is, ye want nothing henceforth; ye are become perfect; ye have attained the very summit; ye stand, as ye think, in need of no one, either among Apostles or teachers.
Early Church Fathers on 1 Corinthians 4 →

Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse

Each of these wrote on 1 Corinthians 4:8 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.

John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Now ye are full,.... That is, in their own opinion: these words, and some following expressions, are an ironical concession.

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Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's Commentary

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. Irony.

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Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy Bible

Now ye are full, now ye are rich; you that are the teachers at Corinth, or you that are the members of the church there, think yourselves full of knowledge and wisdom, so as you stand in need of no further learning or instruction. Ye have reigned as kings without us; ye think now you have got a kingdom, and are arrived at the top of felicity. And I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you; I am so far from envying you, that I wish it were so, and we might have a share with you. The apostle speaketh this ironically, not that he indeed thought they were so, but reflecting on their vain and too good an opinion of themselves.

Read Matthew Poole on 1 Corinthians 4 →
John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

8 Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you. Ver. 8. Now ye are rich] Crescit oratio, saith Piscator here. The apostle riseth in his expressions, and that all along by an ironic reprehension. These Corinthians had riches, and gifts, and learning; and carried aloft by these waxen wings, they domineered and despised others.

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Charles John Ellicott1819–1905Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers

(8) Now ye are full.—These three following sentences are ironical. The emphasis is on the word “now.” Ye are already (as distinct from us Apostles) full, rich, kings. You act as if you had already attained the crowning point in the Christian course. “Piety is an insatiable thing,” says Chrysostom on this passage, “and it argues a childish mind to imagine from just the beginnings that you have attained the whole; and for men who are not even yet in the prelude of a matter to be highminded, as if they had laid hold of the end.” Without us.—The Apostle would have his converts be to him as his crown of rejoicing; but they now assume to have “come into the kingdom” without any connection with…

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AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Verse 8. Now ye] Corinthians are full of secular wisdom; now ye are rich, both in wealth and spiritual gifts; (1 Corinthians 14:26:) ye have reigned as kings, flourishing in the enjoyment of these things, in all tranquillity and honour; without any want of us: and I would to God ye did reign, in deed, and not in conceit only, that we also, poor, persecuted, and despised apostles, might reign with you.-Whitby. Though this paraphrase appears natural, yet I am of opinion that the apostle here intends a strong irony; and one which, when taken in conjunction with what he had said before, must have stung them to the heart. It is not an unusual thing for many people to forget, if not despise, the…

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CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

8–16. Contrast between the Corinthian Teachers and St Paul8. Now ye are full, now ye are rich] Here we have one of the sudden turns of feeling so remarkable in the Apostle’s style. Abruptly breaking off at the word ‘boast,’ he dashes off into an animated and ironical apostrophe. ‘I may well say ‘boast’ for boasting is your crying sin, but it is boasting in yourselves, not in God. All your wants spiritual and temporal now are satisfied, you have become rich, you are reigning like kings. But in your self-satisfaction you give not a thought to those whose labours have made you what you are. Would that it were really with you as you imagine it to be! Then we might hope for some remission of our…

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Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Now ye are full - It is generally agreed that this is spoken in irony, and that it is an indignant sarcasm uttered against the false and self-confident teachers in Corinth.

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The verse in English, compared — 16 translations, and where they part company

Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.

Modern formal

BSBBerean Standard Bible2020

Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

WEBWorld English Bible2000

You are already filled. You have already become rich. You have come to reign without us. Yes, and I wish that you did reign, that we also might reign with you!

MSBMajority Standard Bible2022

Already you have all you want. Already you have become rich. Without us, you have become kings. How I wish you really were kings, so that we might be kings with you!

NETBNew English Translation2006

Already you are satisfied! Already you are rich! You have become kings without us! I wish you had become kings so that we could reign with you!

Tyndale line

KJVKing James Version1611

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

ASVAmerican Standard Version1901

Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have come to reign without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

RVARevised Version, American1894

Already are ye filled, already ye are become rich, ye have reigned without us: yea and I would that ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

NWBWebster's Bible1833

Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I wish ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

GNVGeneva Bible1599

Nowe ye are full: nowe ye are made rich: ye reigne as kings without vs, and would to God ye did reigne, that we also might reigne with you.

Strictly literal

DBYDarby Translation1890

Already ye are filled; already ye have been enriched; ye have reigned without us; and I would that ye reigned, that we also might reign with you.

YLTYoung's Literal Translation1862

Already ye are having been filled, already ye were rich, apart from us ye did reign, and I would also ye did reign, that we also with you may reign together,

LSVLiteral Standard Version2020

Already you are having been filled, already you were rich, apart from us you reigned, and I also wish you reigned, that we also may reign together with you,

ULBUnlocked Literal Bible2017

Already you have all you could want! Already you have become rich! You began to reign—and that quite apart from us! Indeed, I wish you did reign, so that we could reign with you.

From the Latin

DRADouay-Rheims (Challoner)1899

You are now full; you are now become rich; you reign without us; and I would to God you did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Simplified

FBVFree Bible Version2020

You think you have all you need. You think you're so wealthy. You think you're kings already, and don't need us. I wish you were really ruling as kings, so we could rule with you!

BBEBible in Basic English1949

For even now you are full, even now you have wealth, you have been made kings without us: truly, I would be glad if you were kings, so that we might be kings with you.

Word by word, the decisions they made

ἤδηēdē Already G2235 3 different renderings
alreadyASV BSB DBY FBV LSV MSB NETB RVA ULB WEB YLT
nowDRA KJV NWB
even nowBBE
κεκορεσμένοιkorennumi satiated G2880 2 different renderings
having been filledLSV YLT
needFBV
ἐστέ,eimi you are, G1510 3 different renderings
areASV DBY GNV KJV NWB RVA
you areBBE DRA LSV NETB WEB
wereBSB FBV MSB YLT
ἤδηēdē already G2235 2 different renderings
alreadyASV BSB DBY FBV LSV MSB NETB RVA ULB WEB YLT
nowBBE DRA KJV NWB
ἐπλουτήσατε,plouteō you have been enriched, G4147 3 different renderings
richASV BSB DRA GNV KJV LSV MSB NETB NWB RVA ULB WEB YLT
enrichedDBY
wealthyFBV
χωρὶςchōris apart from G5565 2 different renderings
withoutASV BBE BSB DBY DRA GNV KJV MSB NETB NWB RVA WEB
apart fromLSV ULB YLT

Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.


The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the Nestle 1904 treebank

This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.

clauseadverbialἤδηAlreadyverb phrase · verbκεκορεσμένοιsatiatedἐστέyou areclauseadverbialἤδηalreadyverbἐπλουτήσατεyou have been enrichedclauseprepositional phrase · adverbialχωρὶςapart fromἡμῶνusverbἐβασιλεύσατεyou reignedclauseκαὶandclauseverbὄφελόνI wish thatclauseγεreallyclauseverbἐβασιλεύσατεyou did reignclauseἵναso thatclausenoun phrase · subjectκαὶalsoἡμεῖςweadverbialὑμῖνyouverbσυνβασιλεύσωμενmight reign with

Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.


The earliest translations — Latin and Syriac

Every translation is an argument about meaning made by someone who had to commit to one. These two were made while the Greek was still a living language, and they are the oldest opinions we have about what this verse says.

Latin VulgateAD 382–405

Jam saturati estis, jam divites facti estis : sine nobis regnatis : et utinam regnetis, ut et nos vobiscum regnemus.

Jerome revised the Old Latin against the Greek from AD 382; the Latin west read this text for a thousand years.

Syriac Peshittaby AD 400

ܡܢ ܟܕܘ ܣܒܥܬܘܢ ܠܟܘܢ ܘܥܬܪܬܘܢ ܘܒܠܥܕܝܢ ܐܡܠܟܬܘܢ ܐܫܬܘܦ ܕܝܢ ܐܡܠܟܬܘܢ ܕܐܦ ܚܢܢ ܢܡܠܟ ܥܡܟܘܢ

The Bible of the Syriac-speaking church, in the language nearest to the Aramaic Jesus spoke.

Shown verse by verse rather than word by word: aligning a Greek word to its Latin or Syriac counterpart automatically would be guesswork, and a wrong alignment is worse than none.


The Greek editions compared — what the manuscripts actually say

Eight printed editions of the Greek New Testament, side by side. Where they agree the wording is settled; where a word is missing from an edition it is marked, so you can see the difference rather than take it on trust.

Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

The standard critical text of the New Testament.

Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993 · Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

The previous edition, still widely cited.

SBL Greek New Testament2010 · Michael Holmes

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

The Society of Biblical Literature edition, freely licensed.

Westcott–Hort1881 · Westcott and Hort

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

The edition that turned scholarship toward the earliest manuscripts.

Tregelles1857–1879 · Samuel Prideaux Tregelles

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

An independent critical text built from the oldest witnesses then known.

Tyndale House Greek NT2017 · Tyndale House, Cambridge

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

A recent critical edition following documentary evidence closely.

Byzantine majority text2018 · Robinson–Pierpont

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

The reading of the majority of surviving manuscripts.

Textus Receptus1550/1894 lineage

ἤδη κεκορεσμένοι ἐστέ, ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε, χωρὶς ἡμῶν ἐβασιλεύσατε· καὶ ὄφελόν γε ἐβασιλεύσατε, ἵνα καὶ ἡμεῖς ὑμῖν συμβασιλεύσωμεν.

The printed tradition behind the King James Version.

Every witness on this verse all agree
Critical editions
Nestle-Aland 28th edition2012Nestle-Aland 27th edition1993SBL Greek New Testament2010Westcott–Hort1881Tregelles1857–1879Tyndale House Greek NT2017
Byzantine / Majority
Byzantine majority text2018
Received Text
Textus Receptus1550/1894

A witness that read differently would show its variant word here, marked.

Word by word, across the editions

Every edition agrees. All 8 printed editions — Nestle-Aland 28, Nestle-Aland 27, SBLGNT, Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Tyndale House 2017, Textus Receptus (KJV), Byzantine majority — carry every word of this verse, in the same order, with no difference that any translator would render differently.


The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with

This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Greek New Testament — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.

1 Corinthians 4:8ἤδηAlreadyAlreadyἤδηκορέννυμιsatiatedsatiatedκορέννυμιεἰμίyou are,you are,εἰμίἤδηalreadyalreadyἤδηπλουτέωyou have beyou have been eπλουτέωχωρίςapart fromapart fromχωρίςημωνususημωνβασιλεύωyou reignedyou reigned;βασιλεύωκαίandandκαίὄφελονI wish thatI wish thatὄφελονγέreallyreallyγέβασιλεύωyou did reiyou did reign,βασιλεύωἵναso thatso thatἵνακαίalsoalsoκαίημειςwe ourselvewe ourselvesημειςσύyouyouσύσυμβασιλεύωmay reign wmay reign with.συμβασιλεύωDisj.prt. Disj.prt. or, tβασιλεύςn.m. a kinn.m. a king, ruβασιλεύςπλουτίζωv. I make v. I make richπλουτίζωχώραn.f. region.f. region, laχώρασύνPrep. withPrep. withσύνὀφείλωv. I owe, v. I owe, oughtὀφείλωἑαυτοῦRefl.pr. hRefl.pr. himselἑαυτοῦArticle thArticle theπροσμένωv. I remaiv. I remain, peπροσμένωπαρέρχομαιv. I pass v. I pass byπαρέρχομαιὄφελονv. O that!v. O that! I wiὄφελονθάνατοςn.m. deathn.m. deathθάνατοςἄξιοςAdj worthyAdj worthy, worἄξιοςἀπόPrep. fromPrep. from, awaἀπόπᾶςAdj all, tAdj all, the whπᾶςοὔτεNeg.cj. anNeg.cj. and notοὔτενόμοςn.m. a lawn.m. a law, theνόμοςβασιλεύωv. I rule,v. I rule, reigβασιλεύω
meets it a little oftener than chancemeets it far oftener than chancebuilt from the same roottwo words of the verse share ita word of this versea related word

Lexicons — every word in 1 Corinthians 4:8

One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Greek lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.

Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. Imported from the CrossWire SWORD modules — Abbott-Smith, the full Liddell-Scott-Jones, Strong's, Dodson, the Intermediate LSJ, Robinson and Packard on the Greek, Webster and Cawdrey on the English the translators were using. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἤδηēdē Already G2235 Adverb
60× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Already or even now is the meaning of this word, which is used to describe something that has happened or is happening at the current time. It is used in Matthew 3:10 and John 4:36 to describe events that are happening now or have already occurred.
Amplified meaning
even now, at this moment
Tyndale gloss
already
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἤδη (i.e., *ēdē*) is an adverb meaning 'now' or 'already.' It is used in the New Testament to indicate a present time or state, as seen in verses like Matthew 3:10 and Romans 1:10. The word can also imply immediacy or logical proximity, with variations such as 'νῦν... ἤδη' (now already) and 'ἤδη ποτέ' (now at length).

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἤδη

adv.,

in NT, always of time; now, already: Mt 3:10, Mk 4:37, Lk 7:6, Jo 4:36, al.; νῦν . . . ἤ., now already, I Jo 4:3; ἤ. ποτέ, now at length, c. fut., Ro 1:10 (cf. ἄρτι).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἤδη, adv., [fr. Hom. down; on deriv. see Vanitek p. 745; Peile p. 395], in the N. T. everywh. of time, now, already, (Lat. jam): Mt. iii. 10; v. 28; xiv.15; Mk. iv. 37; ΧΙ. 11; Lk. vii. 6; xii. 49; [xxiv. 29 T WH Trtxt., L Tr mrg. br.]; Jn. iv. 35 (36), 51; xix. 28 (that all things were now finished and that nothing further remained for him to do or to suffer); Acts xxvii. 9; Ro. xiii. 11 (that it is already time to wake up and indulge no longer in sleep); 1 Co. iv. 8, and often; νῦν... ἤδη, now already (Lat. jam nunc): 1 Jn. iv. 3; ἤδη ποτέ, now at last, at length now: with fut. Ro. i. 10; [with aor. Phil. iv. 10. Syn. see ἄρτι, fin.]

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἤδη. For the idea of ‘logical proximity and immediateness ”’ (cf. Baumlein Griech. Partikeln, p. 138 ff.) which underlies this word and is perhaps to be seen in 1 Cor 67 (cf. Ellicott ad /.), we may cite the common use of the adverb in magical incantations, e.g. P Par 574128 (iii/A.p.) (= Selectzons, p. 114) ἔξελθε, δαῖμον, .. . καὶ ἀπόστηθι ἀπὸ τοῦ S(c)i(va) ἄρτι ἄρτι ἤδη, P Lond 121978 (iii/A.p.) (ΞΞ 1. p. 96) ἐν [τ]ῇ ἄρτι ὥρᾳ ἤδη ἤδη ταχὺ ταχύ: see also Deissmann ZS, p. 289, Archiv i. p. 426. Other examples of the word are P Fay 109! (early i/A.D.) τοὺς τρεῖς στατῆρες (/. -ας) ods εἴρηκέ σοι Σέλευκος δῶναί por ἤδη δὸς Κλέωνι, ‘the three staters which S. told you to give me, now give to C.,” P Ryl II. 7748 (a.p. 192) κα[ὶ] ὀφείλει στεφῆναι, ἤδη yap ἡ ἀρχὴ ἀδιάπτωτός ἐστιν τῇ πόλί(ει), ‘and he ought to be crowned, for the office is now secured to the city” (Edd.). For ἤδη οὖν see P…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἤδη (ēdē) — already.

ἤδη,

adverb:

1. already, by this time, νὺξ ἤ. τελέθει 'tis already night, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with numerals, ἤ. γὰρ τρίτον ἔτος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦν δ᾽ ἦμαρ ἤ. δεύτερον[Refs]

2. forthwith, immediately, φρονέω δὲ διακρινθήμεναι ἤ. Ἁργείους καὶ Τρῶας [Refs 8th c.BC+]; στείχοις ἂν ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤδη.. στέλλεσθ; [Refs]; μετὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ. ποτέ now at length, Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; on the verso of a letter, urgent, immediate, PCair. Zen.154 [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἤ. ἤ. ταχὺ ταχύ [Refs]

3. opposed to to the future or past, actually, now, οὐκ ὄναρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὕπαρ ἤ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ μὲν τάχ᾽, οἱ δ᾽ ἐσαῦθις, οἱ δ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τάχ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἤ. χάρις present…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἤδη

ede

apparently from 2228 (or possibly 2229) and 1211; even now:--already,

(even) now (already), by this time.

see GREEK for 2228

see GREEK for 2229

see GREEK for 1211

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἤδη

Adv

now, already

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἤδη ēdē 62x

before now, now, already, Mt. 3:10; 5:28; ἤδη ποτέ, at length, Rom. 1:10; Phil. 4:10

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adv — Adverb
adverb — it qualifies the verb, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

ADV ADVerb or adverb and particle combined

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
84%already
already84% · 51×now15% · 9×other renderings2% · 1×

61 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 60 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
ὅτιthat, since, because
ὄχλοςa crowdἔρχομαιI come, goγινώσκωI come to know,
εἰμίI am, exist
καίand, even, also,κορέννυμιI fill, feed fulκόσμοςthe world, unive
αὐτός
ἐπιθυμέωI long for, coveσύνδέbut, on the othe
καίand, even, also, nam
τόποςa place
ὥραan hour, season
Article theὅτιthat, since, bec
ἤδηAlready60×
what comes after →
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theαὐτόςκαίand, even, also,
Article the
κλάδοςa branchθύραa door, opportunἡμέραa day
ἡμέραa day
τρεῖςthreeἔχωI have, hold, po
γίνομαιI come into being, a
καίand, even, also,ἵστημιI cause to stand
παρέρχομαιI pass by
ἀπολύωI release, let gπαραινέωI admonish, advi

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἤδη · 60× in the New Testament
John Luke Mark Matthew 1 Corinthians Acts Philippians 1 John 2 Timothy Romans 1 Timothy 2 Peter
Across the New Testament13 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 12 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 24c. AD 40

εἰ δέ τις ἐθελήσειε γυμνοτέροις χρήσασθαι τοῖς ὀνόμασιν, οὐδὲν ἂν ἕτερον εἴποι τὸν νοητὸν κόσμον εἶναι ἢ θεοῦ λόγον ἤδη κοσμοποιοῦντος·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.6c. AD 75–95

ἤδη μὲν οὖν καὶ πρότερον διενοήθην, ὅτε τὸν πόλεμον συνέγραφον, δηλῶσαι τίνες ὄντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ τίσι χρησάμενοι τύχαις ὑφʼ οἵῳ τε παιδευθέντες νομοθέτῃ τὰ πρὸς εὐσέβειαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἄσκησιν ἀρετῆς πόσους τε πολέμους ἐν μακροῖς…

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 4.7c. AD 100

ἡμῶν μέν: ἀλλ̓ ἐκεῖνοι οὕτως εἰς τέλος ἀπώλεσαν αὐτὴν λαβόντος ἤδη τοῦ Μωϋσέως.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 3rd c. BC 2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Cair. Zen. 3 59331Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)249 BC

πρὸς αὐτοὺς περὶ τιμῆς … … σοι πλῆθός τι εἰς ρν δέλφακας διὰ τὸ ἤδη ἐκ … ναι ἕως λ τοῦ Παχώνς· καὶ ἀπόστειλον πε … … ων ἐν

τοῦ παλαιοῦ, ὄξους α, εἰ δὲ μὴ ὑπάρχει τοῦ παλαιοῦ, τοῦ νέου, εἰ ἔστιν ἤδη χρηστόν. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους γ, Μεσορὴ ζ.

P.Grenf. 1 42Diospolis Parva170 BC–169 BC

μικρᾶι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῶι ἐν Πτολεμαίδι ὑπαίθρωι. πολλὰς χρείας μισθοφόρων ἱππέων παρεσχημένων ἡμῶν ἤδη πολλάκις κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον καὶ κινδύνους μεγάλους … ἐνηνοχότων ἐν τοῖς μάλιστʼ ἀναγκαιοτάτοις καιροῖς

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
κεκορεσμένοιkorennumi satiated G2880 Verb · perfect · passive · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
2× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To eat until full, as in Acts 27:38 where the sailors eat enough food to regain their strength, or to be satisfied spiritually, as in 1 Corinthians 4:8.
Amplified meaning
need, desire
Tyndale gloss
to satisfy
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word κορέννυμι (*korennumi*) means to satisfy or satiate, often in the context of food or spiritual fulfillment. It is derived from the root related to excess or surfeit. The New Testament uses it in Acts 27:38 and 1 Corinthians 4:8, where it conveys the idea of being filled or having one's desires met. The lexicons do not present significant disagreements about its meaning.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

** κορέννυμι

(< κόρος, surfeit),

[in Sm.: Ps 21 (22):27, Al, 102 (103):5*;]

to satisfy: pass., τροφῆς, Ac 27:38; metaph., of spiritual things, I Co 4:8.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

κορέννυμι ; (κύρος satiety); to satiate, sale, satisfy: 1 aor. pass. ptep. κορεσθέντες, as in Grk. writ. fr. Hom. down, w. gen. of the thing with which one is filled [B. § 132, 19], τροφῆς, Acts xxvii. 88; trop. (pf.) κεκορεσμέvot ἐστέ, every wish is satisfied in the enjoyment of the consummate Messianic blessedness, 1 Co. iv. 8.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

κορέννυμι (korennumi) — to satisfy.

κορέννῡμι,

[Refs 4th c.AD+]; κορεννύω, [Refs]; κορέω, [Refs 2nd c.BC+]; κορέσκω, [Refs]future κορέσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Epic dialect κορέεις [Refs 8th c.BC+]: aorist ἐκόρεσα [Refs 4th c.BC+]:—middle, κορέννυμαι [Refs 2nd c.BC+]aorist ἐκορεσάμην, Epic dialect ἐκορεσσ-, κορεσσ-, [Refs 8th c.BC+]:—passive, future κεκορήσομαι [Refs 1st c.BC+]: aorist ἐκορέσθην [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Epic dialect 3rd.pers. plural -θεν [Refs 5th c.BC+] {κορεστικῶς}: perfect κεκόρεσμαι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ionic dialect κεκόρημαι [Refs 8th c.BC+]: perfect participle active (with passive sense) κεκορηώς, -ότος, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: also future (in intransitive sense) κορήσουσι [LXX]:—satiate, fill one with a thing, with dative, κορέεις κύνας ἠδ᾽ οἰωνοὺς δημῷ καὶ σάρκεσσι [Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place]:—middle, satisfy oneself, with genitive, ἐκορέσσατο φορβῆς [Refs…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

κορέννυμι

korennumi

a primary verb; to cram, i.e. glut or sate:--eat enough, full.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

κορέννυμι

v.

I fill, feed full

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

κορέννυμι korennymi 2x

to satisfy, Acts 27:38; 1 Cor. 4:8*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

κορέννυμι κεκορηώς, epic part. perf. act. with pass. sense to sate, satiate, satisfy, τινα Theogn., Aesch.: to fill one with a thing, c. dat., Il.; also c. gen. rei, to fill full of, Soph.:—Mid. to satisfy oneself, have one's fill, c. gen., ἐκορέσσατο φορβῆς Il., etc.; c. part., κλαίουσα κορέσσατο she had her fill of weeping, Od.: —Pass. to be satiated, Hes.; rarely c. dat. rei, πλούτωι κεκορημένος Theogn.; ὕβρι Hdt.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-RPP-NPM — Verb · perfect · passive · participle · nominative · plural · masculine
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural masculine.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-RPP-NPM Part of Speech: Verb Tense: peRfect Voice: Passive Mood: Participle Case: Nominative Number: Plural Gender: Masculine

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
50%having been filled
having been filled50% · 1×satiated50% · 1×

2 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
ἤδηnow, already
κορέννυμιsatiated
what comes after →
δέbut, on the other ha
τροφήfood, nourishmen
εἰμίI am, exist
ἤδηnow, already

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceκορέννυμι · 2× in the New Testament
1 Corinthians Acts
Across the New Testament2 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 3.155c. AD 40

κἂν ἐν συνουσίαις ὄντες καὶ μέλλοντες εἰς ἀπόλαυσιν καὶ χρῆσιν τῶν παρεσκευασμένων ἐλθεῖν σὺν λόγῳ παραγενώμεθα ὥσπερ ὅπλῳ τινὶ ἀμυντηρίῳ, οὔτε πέραν τοῦ μετρίου σιτίων ἐμφορηθησόμεθα αἰθυιῶν τρόπον οὔτ’ ἀκράτου ἀμέτρου κορεσθέντες μέθῃ ληραίνειν…

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἐστέ,eimi you are, G1510 Verb · present · active · indicative · second person · plural
2,457× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To be or exist, a basic verb used to describe something or someone, like God saying 'I am' in John 8:58.
Tyndale gloss
to be
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

εἰμί is a Greek verb meaning 'to be' or 'to exist.' It serves various functions, such as a substantive verb for persons and things, and as a copula linking subjects and predicates. The New Testament frequently uses it in passages like John 1:1 and Matthew 24:3. Notably, it can also express possibility, as seen in Hebrews 9:5.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

εἰμί,

with various uses and significations, like the English verb to be.

As substantive verb.

Of persons and things, to be, exist: Ac 17:28, Jo 1:1 8:58 17:5, al; ὁ ὢν καὶ ὁ ἦν (for past ptcp.), Re 1:4, 8 4:8 11:17 16:5 (v. Swete, Ap., 5; M, Pr., 228); τὰ (μὴ) ὄντα, Ro 4:17, I Co 1:28.

Of times, events, etc., to be, happen, take place: Mt 24:3, Mk 14:2 15:42, Lk 21:23, Jo 4:6, 23 5:10, al.

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

εἰμί (fr. ἔω, whence ἐμέ in inscriptions [7]; Aeol. ἐμμὲ (Curtius (yet ἔμμε, so G. Meyer) 8 564; Veitch p. 2287), impv. ἴσθι, ἔστω, less usual ἤτω, 1 Co. xvi. 22; Jas. v.12; Clem. Rom. 1 Cor. 48,5; [1 Mace. x. 31; Ps. ciii. (civ.) 31]; Plat. rep. 2 p. 361 ¢. [here it has given place to ἔστω (or ἴτω), see Stallb. ad loc.; Veitch p. 200 sq.; 3 pers. plur. ἔστωσαν, Lk. xii. 35; 1 Tim. iii. 12], inf. εἶναι ; impf. —ace. to the more ancient and elegant form, ἦν, 2 pers. ἦσθα (Mt. xxvi. 69; Mk. xiv. 67), rarer form ἧς (Mt. RKV. 1235 dn ΧΙ: 9]. 92); xxI LS. Reyna 15 G@ ΕΣ Tr WH), 3 pers. ἦν, 1 pers. plur. jer, — ace. to the mid. form, com. in later Grk. [ef. Veitch p. 226], ἤμην (Mt. xxv. 35sq.; [on Acts xi. 11 ef. WH. Intr. § 404]; Gal.i.10, etc.), plur. ἤμεθα (Mt. xxiii. 30 G L T Tr WH; Acts xxvii. 37 L T Tr WH; [Gal. iv. 3 TWH Tr mrg.; Eph. ii. 3 T Tr WH; Bar. i. 19]); cf. Lob. ad Phryn.…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

εἰμί. Middle forms in the flexion of εἰμί other than the present tense (cf. however MGr εἶμαι, -σαι, etc.) begin to appear very early in the dialects and are well established in the papyri. Thus the Ist sing. impf. ἤμην, which always takes the place of the class. ἢ in the NT (but see Ac 2018 D) may be illustrated from PSI IV. 36274 (B.c. 251-0) ἤμην δὲ πρὸς τῶι λαμβάνειν τὸν χαλκόν, P Magd 65 (B.c. 221) ἤμην γυμνός, P Par 57 (B.c. 129) ὧν ἤμην δι᾽ αὐτῶν [π]αραμε[μετ]ρηκ[υῖα, P Oxy IIT. 526% (ii/A.p.) οὐκ ἤμην ἀπαθὴς ἀλόγως σε καταλείπιν. For ist plur. ἤμεθα see P Petr IT. 4 (7)° (B.C. 255-4) τεθλιμμένοι ἤμεθα : cf. Ac 2737, Eph 23, as contrasted with the act. ἦμεν in Ac 111 (NB), 1612, Rom 7° a/.: the two forms are found together in Gal 4% (SDFG). The non-classical ἧς (Lob. Phryx. p. 149) is found sefzes in the NT as compared with ἦσθα (from an old perf. form ἤησθα), which is confined…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

εἰμί (eimi) — to be.

εἰμί

(sum), Aeolic dialect ἔμμι [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Cretan dialect ἠμί [Refs]; 2nd pers. singular εἶ, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect εἰς [Refs 8th c.BC+], Epic dialect and Doric dialect ἐσσί [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἐστί, Doric dialect ἐντί [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. dual ἐστόν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; 1st pers. plural ἐσμέν, Epic dialect and Ionic dialect εἰμέν (also in [Refs 5th c.BC+], Doric dialect εἰμές [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural εἰσί (-ίν), Epic dialect and Ionic dialect ἔασι (-ιν) [Refs 8th c.BC+], Doric dialect ἐντί [Refs 5th c.BC+], Epic dialect and Lyric poetry also in middle form ἔσσο [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔστω (ἤτω [LXX+5th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. plural ἔστωσαν, but ἔστων [Refs 8th c.BC+], and early Attic dialect Inscrr., [Refs 2nd c.BC+]subjunctive ὦ, ᾖς, ᾖ, Epic dialect ἔω [Refs 8th c.BC+]; 3rd.pers. singular ἔῃ [Refs…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

εἰμί

eimi

the first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a

primary and defective verb; I exist (used only when emphatic):--am,

have been, X it is I, was. See also 1488, 1498, 1511, 1527, 2258,

2071, 2070, 2075, 2076, 2771, 2468, 5600.

see GREEK for 1488

see GREEK for 1498

see GREEK for 1511

see GREEK for 1527

see GREEK for 2258

see GREEK for 2071

see GREEK for 2070

see GREEK for 2075

see GREEK for 2076

see GREEK for 2771

see GREEK for 2468

see GREEK for 5600

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

εἰμί

v.

I am, exist

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

εἰμί eimi 2x

to be, to exist, Jn. 1:1; 17:5; Mt. 6:30; Lk. 4:25, freq.; ἐστί[ν], it is possible, proper, Heb. 9:5; a simple linking verb (“copula”) to the subject and predicate, and therefore in itself affecting the force of the sentence only by its tense, mood, etc., Jn. 1:1; 15:1, freq.; it also forms a frequent circumlocution with the participles of the present and perfect of other verbs, Mt. 19:22; Mk. 2:6

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

εἰμί The whole of the pres. ind. (except 2nd sg. εἶ) may be enclitic when εἰμί is the Copula; but the 3rd sg. is written ἔστι in certain cases of emphasis, e. g. ἔστι μοι, I have: when used as Verb Subst., it retains the accent in all persons. as Substantive Verb, to be, to exist, οὐκ ἔσθ᾽ οὗτος ἀνήρ, οὐδ᾽ ἔσσεται Od.; τεθνηῶτος, μηδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἐόντος id. Od.; οὐκέτ᾽ ἔστι he is no more, Eur.; θεοὶ αἰὲν ἐόντες Il.; ἐσσόμενοι posterity, id. Il.; ζώντων καὶ ὄντων Ἀθηναίων Dem.:—so of cities, etc., ὄλωλεν, οὐδ᾽ ἔτ᾽ ἔστι Τροία (cf. Troja fuit), Eur.

of things, to be, exist, εἰ ἔστιν ἀληθέως [ἡ τράπεζα] Hdt.; ἕως ἂν ὁ πόλεμος ἦι so long as it last, Thuc.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-PAI-2P — Verb · present · active · indicative · second person · plural
present active indicative — an action in progress.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-PAI-2P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Present Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: second Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
26%is
is26% · 619×are9% · 228×was7% · 176×being6% · 138×it is5% · 112×will be4% · 87×am3% · 80×were3% · 67×other renderings37% · 901×

2,408 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 139 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
linking verb87%verb13%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 2,457 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
οὐNeg
ὅτιthat, since, becκαίand, even, also,ὅς
οὗτος
ὅτιthat, since, becλέγωI say, speakκαίand, even, also,
ὅς
ἐνἄνθρωποςa man, one of thθεόςGod, a god
ἐγώ
ὅτιthat, since, becλέγωI say, speakμετά
σύ
ἐνλέγωI say, speakαὐτός
εἰμίyou are,2457×
what comes after →
Article the
υἱόςa son, descendenΧριστόςanointed, the Meβασιλείαkingship, sovere
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theοὐNegγάρfor
ἐν
Article theσύαὐτός
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theτὶςἐκεῖthere, yonder, t
ἐγώ
εἰςἄξιοςworthy, worthy oὧδεhere

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceεἰμί · 2,457× in the New Testament
John Luke Matthew Acts Mark 1 Corinthians Romans Revelation 1 John 2 Corinthians Hebrews Galatians

67 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.2c. AD 75–95

τινὲς μὲν γὰρ ἐπιδεικνύμενοι λόγων δεινότητα καὶ τὴν ἀπʼ αὐτῆς θηρευόμενοι δόξαν ἐπὶ τοῦτο τῆς παιδείας τὸ μέρος ὁρμῶσιν, ἄλλοι δὲ χάριν ἐκείνοις φέροντες, περὶ ὧν τὴν ἀναγραφὴν εἶναι συμβέβηκε, τὸν εἰς αὐτὴν πόνον καὶ παρὰ δύναμιν ὑπέστησαν·

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.2c. AD 100

Μεγάλων μὲν ὄντων καὶ πλουσίων τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιωμάτων εἰς ὑμᾶς, ὑπέρ τι καὶ καθ̓ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερευφραίνομαι ἐπὶ τοῖς μακαρίοις καὶ ἐνδόξοις ὑμῶν πνεύμασιν: οὕτως ἔμφυτον τῆς δωρεᾶς πνευματικῆς χάριν εἰλήφατε.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 3rd c. BC 4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν ὄντων καὶ οὐσῶν, μηνὸς Ἐπεὶφ κε. ἐν Παθύρει, ἐφʼ Ἑρμίου τοῦ παρὰ Πανίσκου ἀγορανόμου. ἀπέδοτο

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει Παθύρεως χαλκοῦ Γ. ἐπρίατο Ὧρος Νεχούτου.

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν ὄντων καὶ οὐσῶν, μηνὸς Τῦβι ιη ἐν Παθύρει ἐφʼ Ἑρμίου τοῦ παρὰ Πανίσκου ἀγορανόμου. ἀπέδοτο

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἤδηēdē already G2235 Adverb
60× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Already or even now is the meaning of this word, which is used to describe something that has happened or is happening at the current time. It is used in Matthew 3:10 and John 4:36 to describe events that are happening now or have already occurred.
Amplified meaning
from the very start
Tyndale gloss
already
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἤδη (i.e., *ēdē*) is an adverb meaning 'now' or 'already.' It is used in the New Testament to indicate a present time or state, as seen in verses like Matthew 3:10 and Romans 1:10. The word can also imply immediacy or logical proximity, with variations such as 'νῦν... ἤδη' (now already) and 'ἤδη ποτέ' (now at length).

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἤδη

adv.,

in NT, always of time; now, already: Mt 3:10, Mk 4:37, Lk 7:6, Jo 4:36, al.; νῦν . . . ἤ., now already, I Jo 4:3; ἤ. ποτέ, now at length, c. fut., Ro 1:10 (cf. ἄρτι).

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἤδη, adv., [fr. Hom. down; on deriv. see Vanitek p. 745; Peile p. 395], in the N. T. everywh. of time, now, already, (Lat. jam): Mt. iii. 10; v. 28; xiv.15; Mk. iv. 37; ΧΙ. 11; Lk. vii. 6; xii. 49; [xxiv. 29 T WH Trtxt., L Tr mrg. br.]; Jn. iv. 35 (36), 51; xix. 28 (that all things were now finished and that nothing further remained for him to do or to suffer); Acts xxvii. 9; Ro. xiii. 11 (that it is already time to wake up and indulge no longer in sleep); 1 Co. iv. 8, and often; νῦν... ἤδη, now already (Lat. jam nunc): 1 Jn. iv. 3; ἤδη ποτέ, now at last, at length now: with fut. Ro. i. 10; [with aor. Phil. iv. 10. Syn. see ἄρτι, fin.]

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ἤδη. For the idea of ‘logical proximity and immediateness ”’ (cf. Baumlein Griech. Partikeln, p. 138 ff.) which underlies this word and is perhaps to be seen in 1 Cor 67 (cf. Ellicott ad /.), we may cite the common use of the adverb in magical incantations, e.g. P Par 574128 (iii/A.p.) (= Selectzons, p. 114) ἔξελθε, δαῖμον, .. . καὶ ἀπόστηθι ἀπὸ τοῦ S(c)i(va) ἄρτι ἄρτι ἤδη, P Lond 121978 (iii/A.p.) (ΞΞ 1. p. 96) ἐν [τ]ῇ ἄρτι ὥρᾳ ἤδη ἤδη ταχὺ ταχύ: see also Deissmann ZS, p. 289, Archiv i. p. 426. Other examples of the word are P Fay 109! (early i/A.D.) τοὺς τρεῖς στατῆρες (/. -ας) ods εἴρηκέ σοι Σέλευκος δῶναί por ἤδη δὸς Κλέωνι, ‘the three staters which S. told you to give me, now give to C.,” P Ryl II. 7748 (a.p. 192) κα[ὶ] ὀφείλει στεφῆναι, ἤδη yap ἡ ἀρχὴ ἀδιάπτωτός ἐστιν τῇ πόλί(ει), ‘and he ought to be crowned, for the office is now secured to the city” (Edd.). For ἤδη οὖν see P…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἤδη (ēdē) — already.

ἤδη,

adverb:

1. already, by this time, νὺξ ἤ. τελέθει 'tis already night, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with numerals, ἤ. γὰρ τρίτον ἔτος [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἦν δ᾽ ἦμαρ ἤ. δεύτερον[Refs]

2. forthwith, immediately, φρονέω δὲ διακρινθήμεναι ἤ. Ἁργείους καὶ Τρῶας [Refs 8th c.BC+]; στείχοις ἂν ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤδη.. στέλλεσθ; [Refs]; μετὰ τοῦτ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἤ. ποτέ now at length, Mitteis [Refs 2nd c.AD+]; on the verso of a letter, urgent, immediate, PCair. Zen.154 [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; ἤ. ἤ. ταχὺ ταχύ [Refs]

3. opposed to to the future or past, actually, now, οὐκ ὄναρ, ἀλλ᾽ ὕπαρ ἤ. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οἱ μὲν τάχ᾽, οἱ δ᾽ ἐσαῦθις, οἱ δ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οὐ τάχ᾽, ἀλλ᾽ ἤ. [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἡ ἤ. χάρις present…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἤδη

ede

apparently from 2228 (or possibly 2229) and 1211; even now:--already,

(even) now (already), by this time.

see GREEK for 2228

see GREEK for 2229

see GREEK for 1211

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἤδη

Adv

now, already

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἤδη ēdē 62x

before now, now, already, Mt. 3:10; 5:28; ἤδη ποτέ, at length, Rom. 1:10; Phil. 4:10

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adv — Adverb
adverb — it qualifies the verb, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

ADV ADVerb or adverb and particle combined

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
84%already
already84% · 51×now15% · 9×other renderings2% · 1×

61 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 3 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 60 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
ὅτιthat, since, because
ὄχλοςa crowdἔρχομαιI come, goγινώσκωI come to know,
εἰμίI am, exist
καίand, even, also,κορέννυμιI fill, feed fulκόσμοςthe world, unive
αὐτός
ἐπιθυμέωI long for, coveσύνδέbut, on the othe
καίand, even, also, nam
τόποςa place
ὥραan hour, season
Article theὅτιthat, since, bec
ἤδηalready60×
what comes after →
δέbut, on the other ha
Article theαὐτόςκαίand, even, also,
Article the
κλάδοςa branchθύραa door, opportunἡμέραa day
ἡμέραa day
τρεῖςthreeἔχωI have, hold, po
γίνομαιI come into being, a
καίand, even, also,ἵστημιI cause to stand
παρέρχομαιI pass by
ἀπολύωI release, let gπαραινέωI admonish, advi

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἤδη · 60× in the New Testament
John Luke Mark Matthew 1 Corinthians Acts Philippians 1 John 2 Timothy Romans 1 Timothy 2 Peter
Across the New Testament13 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 12 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 24c. AD 40

εἰ δέ τις ἐθελήσειε γυμνοτέροις χρήσασθαι τοῖς ὀνόμασιν, οὐδὲν ἂν ἕτερον εἴποι τὸν νοητὸν κόσμον εἶναι ἢ θεοῦ λόγον ἤδη κοσμοποιοῦντος·

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.6c. AD 75–95

ἤδη μὲν οὖν καὶ πρότερον διενοήθην, ὅτε τὸν πόλεμον συνέγραφον, δηλῶσαι τίνες ὄντες ἐξ ἀρχῆς Ἰουδαῖοι καὶ τίσι χρησάμενοι τύχαις ὑφʼ οἵῳ τε παιδευθέντες νομοθέτῃ τὰ πρὸς εὐσέβειαν καὶ τὴν ἄλλην ἄσκησιν ἀρετῆς πόσους τε πολέμους ἐν μακροῖς…

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 4.7c. AD 100

ἡμῶν μέν: ἀλλ̓ ἐκεῖνοι οὕτως εἰς τέλος ἀπώλεσαν αὐτὴν λαβόντος ἤδη τοῦ Μωϋσέως.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
6th c. AD 3rd c. BC 2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD
P.Cair. Zen. 3 59331Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)249 BC

πρὸς αὐτοὺς περὶ τιμῆς … … σοι πλῆθός τι εἰς ρν δέλφακας διὰ τὸ ἤδη ἐκ … ναι ἕως λ τοῦ Παχώνς· καὶ ἀπόστειλον πε … … ων ἐν

τοῦ παλαιοῦ, ὄξους α, εἰ δὲ μὴ ὑπάρχει τοῦ παλαιοῦ, τοῦ νέου, εἰ ἔστιν ἤδη χρηστόν. ἔρρωσο. ἔτους γ, Μεσορὴ ζ.

P.Grenf. 1 42Diospolis Parva170 BC–169 BC

μικρᾶι ἀπὸ τῶν ἐν τῶι ἐν Πτολεμαίδι ὑπαίθρωι. πολλὰς χρείας μισθοφόρων ἱππέων παρεσχημένων ἡμῶν ἤδη πολλάκις κατὰ τὸν πόλεμον καὶ κινδύνους μεγάλους … ἐνηνοχότων ἐν τοῖς μάλιστʼ ἀναγκαιοτάτοις καιροῖς

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἐπλουτήσατε,plouteō you have been enriched, G4147 Verb · aorist · active · indicative · second person · plural
12× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To be rich or wealthy is what this word means, like in Luke 1:53 where it talks about becoming rich. It can also mean being rich in faith, as in 1 Timothy 6:18, or having a lot of spiritual wealth.
Amplified meaning
wealthy, prosperous, spiritually abundant
Tyndale gloss
be rich
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word πλουτέω (plouteo) means 'to be rich' or 'to become wealthy,' both literally and metaphorically. It appears in various contexts, such as gaining material wealth (Luke 1:53; 1 Timothy 6:9) or spiritual abundance (Romans 10:12). The word is derived from the root for wealth, πλοῦτος (ploutos), and can take different grammatical constructions, including genitive and dative. Notably, there are variations in usage across different lexicons, particularly regarding its metaphorical applications.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

πλουτέω, -ῶ,

[in LXX chiefly for עשׁר hi.;]

to be rich, aor., to become rich: Lk 1:53, I Ti 6:9; seq. ἀπό (Si 11:18), Re 18:15; ἐκ, Re 18:3, 19; ἐν (= cl., c. gen., dat., acc., cf. πλούσιος), I Ti 6:18. Metaph., π. εἰς θεόν, Lk 12:21; of God, εἰς πάντας, Ro 10:12; aor., I became rich, I Co 4:8, II Co 8:9, Re 3:18; pf., I have become rich, Read the full entry →

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πλουτέω, -@; 1 aor. ἐπλούτησα; pf. πεπλούτηκα; (πλοῦtos); fr. Hes. down; Sept. sometimes for wy; a. to be rich, to have abundance: prop. of outward possessions, absol., Lk. i. 53; 1 Tim. vi.9; 1 aor. 7 have been made rich, have become rich, have gotten riches (on this use of the aorist see βασιλεύω, fin.), ἀπό twos, Rev. xviii. 15 (Sir. xi. 18; [ef. ἀπό, II. 2.a.]) ; also ἔκ τινος (see ἐκ, II. 5), Rev. xviii. 3,19; ἔν τινι (cf. W. § 80, 8 b. note; the Greeks say πλουτεῖν τινος, Or τινι, OF TL), 1 Tim. vi. 18. b. metaph. to be richly supplied : πλουτεῖν εἰς πάντας, is affluent in resources so that he can give the blessings of salvation unto all, Ro. x. 12; πλουτεῖν eis θεόν (see εἰς, B. Il. 2 b.a.), Lk. xii. 21; aor. ἐπλούτησα, absolutely, I became rich, i. e. obtained the eternal spiritual possessions: 1 Co. iv. 8; 2 Co. viii. 9; Rev. iii. 18; πεπλούma, I have gotten riches, Rev. iii.…

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πλουτέω. For the aor. = ‘‘ become rich,” as in Rev 318, cf. P Giss I. 1319 (not dated) ὅπω[ς] πλουτή[σ]ῃς εἰς αἰῶίνα. The aor. is ingressive in I Cor 4" ἤδη ἐπλουτήσατε; ‘have you already come into your wealth?” The pres. is seen in the Delphic precept, Sy//* 12681. °° πλούτει δ[ικαίως.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

πλουτέω (plouteō) — be rich.

πλουτ-έω,

(πλοῦτος) to be rich, wealthy, opposed to πένομαι, τάχα σε ζηλώσει ἀεργὸς πλουτεῦντα [Refs 8th c.BC+]becomes rich, [Refs 6th c.BC+]; π. μέγα, μάλιστα, μεγάλως, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὄναρ πεπλουτηκέναι 'build castles in the air', [Refs 5th c.BC+]; π. ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν to be rich from the public purse, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

2. with genitive of things, to be rich in a thing, πόνου [Refs 5th c.BC+]; πλουτῖον (i.e. -τεῖον, for the sake of meter for -τέον) τέκνων.. δωμάτιον [Refs]

3. with dative of things, π. ἐμπύροισιν [Refs 5th c.BC+]; σιδήρῳ, χαλκῷ, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

πλουτέω

plouteo

from 4148; to be (or become) wealthy (literally or figuratively):--be

increased with goods, (be made, wax) rich.

see GREEK for 4148

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

πλουτέω

v.

I become rich

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

πλουτέω plouteō 12x

to be or become rich, Lk. 1:25; 1 Tim. 6:9; trop. Lk. 12:21; met. to abound in, be abundantly furnished with, 1 Tim. 6:18; to be spiritually enriched, 2 Cor. 8:9

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

πλουτέω πλουτέω, φυτ. -ήσω πλοῦτος to be rich, wealthy, Hes., Theogn., Hdt., attic; πλ. ἀπὸ τῶν κοινῶν to be rich from the public purse, Ar.

c. gen. rei, to be rich in a thing, Xen.

c. dat. rei, πλ. ἐμπύροισιν Eur., Xen.

c. acc. cogn., πλ. πλοῦτον Luc.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AAI-2P — Verb · aorist · active · indicative · second person · plural
aorist active indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AAI-2P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: second Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
17%be rich
be rich17% · 2×enriched17% · 2×being rich17% · 2×rich8% · 1×you have been enriched8% · 1×may be enriched8% · 1×i have grown rich8% · 1×you may be rich8% · 1×other renderings8% · 1×

12 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 9 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb83%object17%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 12 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
ἀγαθόςgoodεἰμίI am, exist
θεόςGod, a god
εἰς
πᾶςall, the whole, ever
κύριοςlord, Lord, mast
ἤδηnow, already
εἰμίI am, exist
πτωχείαbeggary, poverty
ἐκεῖνος
πλουτέωyou have been enriched,12×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
οὐδείςno one, none, noἱμάτιονouter garment
ἐξαποστέλλωI send forth
κενόςempty, vain, hol
εἰς
πᾶςall, the whole,
χωρίςapart from, without
ἐγώ
ἐμπίπτωI fall in, am cast i
εἰς

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceπλουτέω · 12× in the New Testament
Revelation 1 Timothy Luke 1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Romans
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Clement of Rome Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas
Philo of AlexandriaWho is the Heir of Divine Things 189c. AD 40

„ὁ πλουτῶν οὐ προσθήσει, καὶ ὁ πενόμενος οὐκ ἐλαττώσει ἀπὸ τοῦ ἡμίσους τοῦ διδράχμου“ (Exod.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 4.14c. AD 75–95

Κορῆς τις Ἑβραίων ἐν τοῖς μάλιστα καὶ γένει καὶ πλούτῳ διαφόρων ἱκανὸς δʼ εἰπεῖν καὶ δήμοις ὁμιλεῖν πιθανώτατος, ὁρῶν ἐν ὑπερβαλλούσῃ τιμῇ τὸν Μωυσῆν καθεστῶτα χαλεπῶς εἶχεν ὑπὸ φθόνου, καὶ γὰρ φυλέτης ὢν ἐτύγχανεν αὐτοῦ καὶ συγγενής, ἀχθόμενος ὅτι…

Clement of RomeSecond Clement 20.1c. AD 96

Ἀλλὰ μηδὲ ἐκεῖνο τὴν διάνοιαν ὑμῶν ταρασσέτω, ὅτι βλέπομεν τοὺς ἀδίκους πλουτοῦντας καὶ στενοχωρουμένους τοὺς τοῦ θεοῦ δούλους.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD
P.Giss. 1 13HermopolitesAD 116–AD 120

τριῶν … λ … λο … σσεν … πα … σα … ὅπως πλουτήσῃς εἰς αἰῶνα· θέλω … ς ὠνήσασθαι ταύτας καὶ βουλεύου δὲ περὶ τῶν ἐν Κούσσαις

O.Kellis 14Kellis (Oasis Magna)AD 252–AD 253

Ψάις υἱὸς Σουλ δραχμὰς β διώβολον· Πλούτων ἀδελφὸς δραχμὰς β διώβολον. Ἔτους γ Γάλλων. Αὐρήλιος Ἱέραξ ὁ καὶ Ἰνγενους ἄρχων δεκάπρωτος

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
χωρὶςchōris apart from G5565 Adverb
41× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Without something, like in John 15:5 where Jesus says we can do nothing without him. It can also mean separately or apart from something.
Amplified meaning
apart from, separately from
Tyndale gloss
without
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

χωρίς (chōris) is an adverb meaning 'separately' or 'apart from.' It can also function as a preposition with the genitive, indicating separation or absence, as seen in various New Testament verses like John 20:7 and Romans 3:21. The word conveys a sense of being distinct or independent, and it can imply a lack of connection or association with something.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

χωρίς

adv.,

separately, apart: Jo 20:7.

As prep., c. gen.,

separate from, apart from, without (practically equiv. to ἄνευ; v. Field, Notes, 103): Mt 13:34, Mk 4:34, Lk 6:49, Jo 1:3 15:5, Ro 3:21, 28 4:6 7:8, 9 10:14, I Co 4:8 11:11, II Co 12:3, Eph 2:12, Phl 2:14, I Ti 2:8 5:21, Phm 14, He 4:15 7:7, 20 9:7, 18 9:22, 28 10:28 11:6, 40 12:8, 14 (οὗ χωρίς; v. Bl., § 82, 3), Ja 2:18, 20, 26;

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χωρίς, (XAQ, see χώρα [cf. Curtius § 192]), adv., fr. Hom. down ; 1. separately, apart: Jn. xx. 7. 2. as a prep. with the zen. [W. § 54, 6]; a. without any pers. or thing (making no use of, having no association with, apart from, aloof from, ete.) : 1 Co. [iv. 8]; xi. 11; Phil. ii. 14; 1 Tim. ii. 8; v. 21; Heb. [ii. 9 Treg. mrg.]; sxi. 40; παραβολῆς, without making use of a parable, Mt. ‘xiii. 34; Mk. iv. 34; ὁρκωμοσίας, Heb. vii. 20 (21), 21; +x: αἵματος, Heb. ix. 7, 18; αἱματεκχυσίας, Heb. ix. 22; without i. e. being absent or wanting: Ro. vii. 8sq. [R.V. apart from]; Heb. xi. 6; xii. 8,14; Jas. ii. 18 (Rec. ἐκ)» 20, 26, [in these three exx. R. V. apart from]; without connection and fellowship with one, Jn. xv. 5 [R.V. apart from]; destitute of the fellowship and blessings of one: χωρὶς Χριστοῦ [cf. W. 8 54,2 ἃ.; R. V. separate Srom Christ], Eph. ii. 12; without the intervention…

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χωρίς I. as δᾶν. “‘separately,’’ Jn 207: Bauer (A@ZNT ad 1.) aptly compares Ignat. Zra//. 11 οὐ δύναται οὖν κεφαλὴ χωρὶς γεννηθῆναι ἄνευ μελῶν, ‘now it is not possible that a head should be born separately without members.” For an ex. from the Kowwy cf. the medical receipt P Oxy VIII. 10884! (early i/A.D.) λῆα ποιήσας Kal χωρὶς ἕκαστον ἀναπλάσας μεθ᾽ ὕδατος, ‘ pound and work them up separately with water ’’ (Ed.).

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

χωρίς (chōris) — without.

χωρίς,

adverb, also χωρί, which see: (see. χῆρος):— separately, apart, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]; χίλια τάλαντα.. χ. θέσθαι set them apart, in reserve, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. οἰκεῖν live apart, have an independent establishment, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; χ. γενόμενοι being separated, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; μή με χ. αἰτιῶ without evidence, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. ποιῆσαι distinguish, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. βλέπειν look two ways, squint, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; opposed to κοινῇ, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; opposed to κοινόν, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. δέ.. and separately, and besides, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; separately, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; λέγειν χ. περὶ ἑκάστου Legal cited in [Refs 4th c.BC+]; περὶ τὸ ἓν καὶ χ. about the one and without [the one] [Refs 4th c.BC+]; otherwise, χ. δὲ μηδαμῶς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; χ. ἢ ὁκόσοι except so many as.., [Refs 5th c.BC+]; also χ. εἰ μή (condemned by Ps.-[Refs 1st…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

χωρίς

choris

adverb from 5561; at a space, i.e. separately or apart from (often as

preposition):--beside, by itself, without.

see GREEK for 5561

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

χωρίς

Adv

apart from, without

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

χωρίς chōris 41x

can function as an improper prep., apart, Jn. 20:7; apart from, parted from, Jn. 15:5; Jas. 2:18, 20, 26; alien from, Eph. 2:12; apart from, on a distinct footing from, 1 Cor. 11:11; apart from, distinct from, without the intervention of, Rom. 3:21, 28; 4:6; apart from the company of, independently of, 1 Cor. 4:8; Heb. 11:40 without the presence of, Heb. 9:28; without the agency of, Read the full entry →

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

χωρίς separately, asunder, apart, by oneself or by themselves, Hom.; κεῖται χ. ὁ νεκρός Hdt.; χ. θέσθαι to set apart, keep in reserve, Thuc.; χ. οἰκεῖν to live apart, Dem.; μή με χ. αἰτιῶ accuse me not without evidence, Soph.; χ. ποιεῖν to distinguish, Isocr.; χωρὶς δέ . . , and separately, besides, Thuc.: — separately, one by one, Lys.; χωρὶς ἤ except, χ. ἢ ὅτι except that, Hdt.; χ. ἢ ὅκοσοι except so many as, id. Hdt.

metaph. of different nature, kind, or quality, Soph., Eur.

as prep. c. gen. without, Aesch., Soph., etc.; χ. Ζηνός without his help or will, Lat. sine Diis, Soph.

separate from, apart or aloof from, far from, χ. ἀνθρώπων στίβου id. Soph.; ἡ ψυχὴ χ. τοῦ σώματος Plat.

independent of, without reckoning, not to mention, besides, Hdt., Aesch.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Adv — Adverb
adverb — it qualifies the verb, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

ADV ADVerb or adverb and particle combined

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
50%apart from
apart from50% · 20×without35% · 14×besides8% · 3×out of3% · 1×separate from3% · 1×itself3% · 1×

40 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 6 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial93%predicate7%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 41 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
ὄχλοςa crowdγίνομαιI come into beinνόμοςa law, the Mosai
ἀνήρa male human being,
τετρακισχίλιοιfour thousandοὔτεNeg
δέbut, on the other ha
νυνίnow, already, atεἰCond
οὐNeg
ὅσοςἀρχιερεύςhigh priest, chi
πίστιςfaith, belief, trust
Article the
χωρίςapart from41×
what comes after →
δέbut, on the other ha
παραβολήa parable, compaArticle theπᾶςall, the whole,
Article the
ἔργονwork, labor, actπαρεκτόςbesides, outsideσῶμαbody, flesh
γυνήa woman, wife, my la
καίand, even, also,ἐν
ἐγώ
οὐNegβασιλεύωI rule, reign, rτελειόωI complete, acco
ἔργονwork, labor, action,
νόμοςa law, the Mosaiνεκρόςdead, a corpse

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceχωρίς · 41× in the New Testament
Hebrews Romans James 1 Corinthians John Matthew 1 Timothy 2 Corinthians Ephesians Luke Mark Philemon
Across the New Testament13 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 8 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 1.83c. AD 40

ἐπεὶ πῶς ἀναγνώσεται χωρὶς ὀμμάτων ὁ ἀσκητής;

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.102c. AD 75–95

δεσπότας γὰρ ἁπάντων ὑμᾶς εἶναι πεποίηκα τῶν τε χερσαίων καὶ νηκτῶν καὶ ὅσα τὴν μετάρσιον αἰώραν ἔχει καὶ φοράν, χωρὶς αἵματος·

The Shepherd of HermasThe Shepherd of Hermas 25.1.6c. AD 140

παρά τινων ἐλάμβανε τὰς ῥάβδους ξηρὰς καὶ βεβρωμένας ὡς ὑπὸ σητός: ἐκέλευσεν ὁ ἄγγελος τοὺς τὰς τοιαύτας ῥάβδους ἐπιδεδωκότας χωρὶς ἱστάνεσθαι.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 6th c. AD 1st c. AD
P.Col. 4 90Philadelphia? (Arsinoites)245 BC

ἱματισμὸς ἐτῶν γ, ὡς τοῦ ἐνιαυτοῦ δραχμαὶ κ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ξ, γίνονται δραχμαὶ ϙε χωρὶς τῆς ἐλαιομετρίας. δέομαι οὖν σου ὅπως αἵ τε δίκελλαι, ἐπειδὴ μόνος πράσσομαι, ἀποκατασταθῶσιν, αὐτός

P.Cair. Zen. 3 59361Arsinoites244 BC

1 Δημήτριος Κρίτωνι χαίρειν. τῆς γεγενημένης οἰκονομίας τὰ ἀντίγραφα Ἰάσονα κομίζοντα τῆς Πολέμωνος μερίδος χωρὶς τοῦ χιλιαρούρου ἀμπελῶνος τοῦ περὶ τὴν Φυλακιτικὴν Νῆσον ἀργυρίου ταλάντοῦ α δραχμῶν Β πρὸς

P.Mich. Zen. 67Arsinoites244 BC

ἔχω μγ καὶ τοῦ Μεχὶρ τῆι λ παρὰ Πύρρου αἶγας νε καὶ ἐρίφους ιζ χωρὶς τῶν ι ὧν παρελαβ … … παρὰ Ἑρμίου αἶγας ϙ ἐρίφους ξ γίνονται αἶγες

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἡμῶνegō us G3165 Personal pronoun · first person · genitive · plural
1,872× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
I/we
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐγώ, gen, etc., ἐμοῦ, ἐμοί, ἐμέ (enclitic μου, μοι, με), pl. ἡμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς,

pers. pron.

I.

The nom. is usually emphatic, when expressed as subjc, as in Mt 3:11, Mk 1:8, Lk 3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Mt 10:16, Jo 10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. I Ki 3:8), Ac 9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, Jo 1:23 (LXX), Ac 7:32 (LXX).

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ἐγώ, gen. ἐμοῦ, enclitic pod; dat. ἐμοί, enclitic μοί; acc. ἐμέ, enclitic μέ; plur. ἡμεῖς, ete.; personal pronoun, J. 1. The nominatives ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς, when joined to a verb, generally have force and emphasis, or indicate antithesis, as Mt. iii. 11; Mk.i. 8; Lk. iii. 16 (ἐγὼ pev... ὁ δέ); Mt. iii. 14 (ἐγὼ... ἔχω, καὶ σύν ; V. 22, 28, 39, and often; ἡμεῖς, contrasted with God, Mt. vi. 12; ἡμεῖς x. of Φαρισαῖοι, Mt. ix. 14; cf. W. § 22,6. But sometimes they are used where there is no emphasis or antithesis in them, as Mt. x. 16; Jn. x. 17; and in many edd. in Mk. i. 2; Lk. vii. 27; οἵ. B. §129, 12. ἰδοὺ ἐγώ, 1397, behold me, hereamT: Acts ix.10 (1S. iii. 8). ἐγώ, like 38, Jam: Jn. i. 23; Acts vii. 32, [ef. W.585 (544); B. 125 (109)]. 2. The enclitic (and monosyllabic) gen., dat., and ace. are connected with nouns, verbs, adverbs, but not with prepositions: ἔμπροσθέν pov, Jn. i. 15; ὀπίσω…

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ἐγώ. Deissmann (ZAZ p. 134 ff.) has drawn attention to the parallels to the solemn use of the first personal pronoun in the Fourth Gospel that may be adduced from inscriptions and magical texts. Thus in an inscr. in honour of Isis from Ios, written in ii/iii A.p., the contents of which are preChristian, we find —Elows ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ τ[ύρανν]ος πάσης χόρας.. ἐγὼ νόμους ἀνθρώποις ἐθέμην . . ἐγώ εἰμι Kpdvov θυγάτηρ πρεσβυτάτη α΄. And similarly in the magical papyrus P Lond 4645 (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 69) ἐγώ εἰμι ὃ ἀκέφαλος δαίμων . . ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀλήθεια ὁ μεισῶν ἀδικήματα γείνεσθαι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ α΄. With the construction of the phrase τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ; in Jn 24 we may compare BGU IV. 1141°8 (n.c. 14) ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ διαστολὰς μηδὲν αὐτῶι καὶ ἐκείνωι εἶναι : for its meaning see Ε΄. C. Burkitt in 77:5 xiii. p- 594f., where it is rendered, ‘‘ What have I and thou to do with that ?” On the difficult…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μέ (me) — me.

ἐγώ,

I: pronoun of the first person:—Epic dialect mostly ἐγών before vowels (so in Doric dialect, before consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἱών [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— strengthened ἔγωγε, I at least, for my part, indeed, for myself (more frequently in Attic dialect than in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἐγώνγα [Refs 7th c.BC+]: Boeotian dialect ἱώνγα [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱώνει [Refs]; ἰώγα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Laconian dialect and Tarentum dialect ἐγώνη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. oblique cases from a different root, genitive ἐμοῦ, enclitic μο; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐμέο, ἐμεῦ, μευ, also ἐμέθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἔμεθεν [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμέος, ἐμεῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἐμοῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+] — _dative_ ἐμοί, enclitic μοι (which may be compared with Sanskrit…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐγώ

me

a shorter (and probably originally) from of 1691; me:--I, me, my.

see GREEK for 1691

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐγώ egō 2x

I, gen., ἐμοῦ [μου], dat., ἐμοί [μοι], acc., ἐμέ [με]

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-1GP — Personal pronoun · first person · genitive · plural
genitive — of, from, belonging to.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-1GP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: first Case: Genitive Number: Plural

English usagewhat the translators’ English meant
Webster's Dictionary (1828), Webster's Unabridged (1913), Webster's Dictionary (1806)

US, pronoun objective case of we.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Us , pron. [OE. us, AS. s; akin to OFries. & OS. s, D. ons, G. uns, Icel. & Sw. oss, Dan. os, Goth. uns, L. nos we, us, Gr. we, Skr. nas us. . Cf. Nostrum, Our.] The persons speaking, regarded as an object; ourselves; — the objective case of we. See We. “Tell us a tale.” Chaucer.

Give us this day our daily bread. Matt. vi. 11.

Us, pron. oblique case of we

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
35%us
us35% · 717×me32% · 644×mine20% · 402×we ourselves6% · 124×my2% · 45×other renderings5% · 97×

2,029 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 27 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἐβασιλεύσατε·basileuō you reigned; G936 Verb · aorist · active · indicative · second person · plural
21× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To reign means to rule or have authority, as seen in 1 Timothy 6:15. It can be used for human kings, God, or Jesus Christ, emphasizing their power and dominion.
Amplified meaning
rulers, reigning with authority, having God's power, ruling with Christ
Tyndale gloss
to reign
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word βασιλεύω (i.e., *basileuō*) means to reign or rule, derived from βασιλεύς (king). It covers a range of meanings from literal kingship to metaphorical reign, including God's sovereignty and the future reign of Christians. The New Testament references include Matthew 2:22 and Revelation 5:10. Notably, the lexicons mention its use in both a literal and figurative sense, with some discussing its ingressive aorist form.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

βασιλεύω,

(< βασιλεύς),

[in LXX for מלךְ, its parts and derivatives, exc. IV Ki 15:5 (ישׁב);]

to be king, to reign, rule: I Ti 6:15; c. gen. (cl.), Mt 2:22; seq. ἐπί, c. acc. (= Heb. מלךְ על; Bl., § 36, 8), Lk 1:33 19:14, 27, Ro 5:14; ἐπὶ τ. γῆς, on earth, Re 5:10; of God, Re 11:15, 17 19:6; of Christ, Lk 1:33, I Co 15:25, Re 11:15; of Christians, Re 5:10 20:4 (constative aor., M, Pr.…

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βασιλεύω ; fut. βασιλεύσω ; 1 aor. ἐβασίλευσα; (βασιλεύς) ; —in Grk. writ. [fr. Hom. down] with gen. or dat., in the sacred writ., after the Hebr. (Sy win), foll. by emi with gen. of place, Mt. ii. 22 (where LT WH om. ‘irbr. ἐπί) ; Rev. v.10; foll. by ἐπί with acc. of the pers., Lk. i. 33; xix. 14,27; Ro. v.14; [ef. W. 206 (193 sq.); B. 169 (147) ]—to be king, to exercise kingly power, «9 reign: univ., 1 Tim. vi. 15; Lk. xix. 14,27; of the governor of a country, although not possessing kingly Bacrato rank, Mt. ii. 22; of God, Rev. xi. 15, 17; xix. 6; of the rule of Jesus, the Messiah, Lk. i. 33; 1 Co. xv. 25; Rev. xi. 15; of the reign of Christians in the millennium, Rey. v. 10; xx. 4, 6; xxii. 5; hence Paul transfers the word to denote the supreme moral dignity, liberty, blessedness, which will be enjoyed by Christ’s redeemed ones: Ro. v. 17 (ef. De Wette and Thol. ad loc.) ; 1 Co. iv.…

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βασιλεύω. A good example of the ingressive aorist is afforded by the new Agraphon as restored by the editors—P Oxy IV. 654° θαμ]βηθεὶς βασιλεύσει καῇ βασιλεύσας ἀναπα]ήσεται, ““ astonished he shall reach the Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom he shall rest”: see /0/eg. p. 130. The verb is used to render the Persian title (see under βασιλεύς) in P Sa‘id Khan 1 (a)! (B.c. 88) βασιλεύοντος βασιλέων Ἀρσάκου : 1 (4)! and 2! (B.c. 22-1) have the same formula. CPHerm 1254.% (a.p. 260-8) διατρίβοντός colv] ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλευούσης Ῥώμης supplies an illustration for Rev 187, For the relation of the Pauline conception of ‘‘ the saint as king” (Rom 517, 2 Tim 215) to the Greek philosophic ideal, see Ramsay 7eaching, p. 157 ff.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

βασιλεύω (basileuō) — to reign.

βᾰσῐλ-εύω,

to be king, rule, reign, οὐ μέν πως πάντες βασιλεύσομεν ἐνθάδ᾽ Ἀχαιοί [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ὑμῖν.. βασίλευε was king among you, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of a woman, ἢ βασίλευεν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ reigned as queen, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: in aorist, to have become king, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, to be king of, rule over, ἐν.. Ἰθάκῃ βασιλεύσει Ἀχαιῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with dative, to be king among, Γιγάντεσσιν βασίλευεν [LXX+8th c.BC+]:—passive, to be governed by a king, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, to be governed or administered, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, submit to the king, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

__b to be ἄρχων β. at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+] of other magistrates, [Refs]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

βασιλεύω

basileuo

from 935; to rule (literally or figuratively):--king, reign.

see GREEK for 935

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

βασιλεύω

v.

I rule, reign, reign over

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

βασιλεύω basileuō 21x

to possess regal authority, be a king, reign; to rule, govern, Mt. 2:22; met. to be in force, predominate, prevail, Rom. 5:14, 17, 21; met. to be in kingly case, fare royally, 1 Cor. 4:8

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

βασιλεύω βασιλεύς to be king, to rule, reign, Hom., etc.; of a woman, to be queen, id. Hom.; c. gen. to be king of, Od.; also, ὄφρ᾽ Ἰθάκης κατὰ δῆμον βασιλεύοι id. Od.; in aor. to have become king, Hdt.; c. dat. to be king among others, Od.:—Pass. to be governed by a king, Plat.: to submit to the king, Plut.

to be master of a thing, c. gen., Theocr.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AAI-2P — Verb · aorist · active · indicative · second person · plural
aorist active indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AAI-2P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: second Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
14%reigned
reigned14% · 3×reign14% · 3×will reign10% · 2×they will reign10% · 2×he will reign10% · 2×may reign5% · 1×should reign5% · 1×you reigned5% · 1×other renderings29% · 6×

21 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 14 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 21 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςἱερεύςa priestμέγας
ἐγώ
θέλωI will, wish, deχωρίςapart from, with
ἈρχέλαοςArchelaus
ὅτιthat, since, bec
οὗτος
θέλωI will, wish, de
ἀλλάbut, except
βασιλεύωyou reigned;21×
what comes after →
Article the
ἁμαρτίαa sinἸουδαίαJudeaθάνατοςdeath
ἐπί
Article theἐγώαὐτός
διά
Article theδικαιοσύνηjustice, justnes
καίand, even, also, nam
ὄφελονO that! I wish! κύριοςlord, Lord, mast
εἰς
Article the

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceβασιλεύω · 21× in the New Testament
Revelation Romans 1 Corinthians Luke 1 Timothy Matthew
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 114 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Confusion of Tongues 91c. AD 40

1,11) τῷ βασιλεύειν δοκοῦντι νῷ, βουλόμενοι τοῦτο ἐνδείξασθαι, ὅτι δοῦλον μὲν τὸ ἀγαθὸν κακοῦ πάθος τ’ εὐπαθείας δυνατώτερον, φρόνησις δὲ καὶ πᾶσα ἀρετὴ ἀφροσύνης καὶ κακίας ἁπάσης ὑπήκοον, ὡς ὑπηρετεῖν ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἅττ’ ἂν προστάττῃ τὸ δεσπόζον.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.159c. AD 75–95

Ἁβράμης ἐβασίλευσεν ἔπηλυς σὺν στρατῷ ἀφιγμένος ἐκ τῆς γῆς τῆς ὑπὲρ Βαβυλῶνος Χαλδαίων λεγομένης.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 4.4c. AD 100

λέγει δὲ οὕτως καὶ ὁ προφήτης: Βασιλεῖαι δέκα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς βασιλεύσουσιν, καὶ ἐξαναστήσεται ὄπισθεν μικρὸς βασιλεύς, ὃς ταπεινώσει τρεῖς ὑφ̓ ἓν τῶν βασιλέων.

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2nd c. BC 1st c. BC 6th c. AD undated 3rd c. BC
P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων

BGU 3 1000Pathyris99 BC

Column i βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ ἐφʼ ἱερέων

P.Adl. 20Poinkoris (Diopolites)99 BC

1 βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου θεοῦ Φιλομήτορος καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεᾶς Φιλαδέλφου ἔτους ἑκκαιδεκάτου

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
καὶkai and G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
And or also, a connecting word used to join ideas or words, like in Matthew 2:18 and Hebrews 1:1.
Tyndale gloss
and
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

καί,

conj.,

and.

Copulative.

Connecting single words;

in general: Mt 2:18 16:1, Mk 2:15, Lk 8:15, He 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23, Lk 14:21, Ro 7:12 9:4, al.;

connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59, Mk 16:17,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καί (kai) — and.

καί,

conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,

__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,

__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

καί

kai

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also

a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in

connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,

also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,

yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καί

Cj.

and, even, also, namely

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καί kai 9x

(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
89%and
and89% · 8448×also8% · 714×other renderings2% · 191×other renderings1% · 124×

9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial16%subject13%object10%predicate3%verb2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8,978 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
ἐνἐπίπρός
σύ
χάριςgrace, favor, kiπρόςπατήρfather, Father,
ἐγώ
πατήρfather, Father, πρόςθεόςGod, a god
εἰμίI am, exist
αὐτόςArticle theἐγώ
θεόςGod, a god
Article theθέλημαwill, wish, desiδέbut, on the othe
καίand8978×
what comes after →
Article the
ἀδελφόςa brotherπατήρfather, Father, μήτηρa mother
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theπρός
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existμήNegδύναμαιI am powerful, a
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
Article theαὐτόςἀνήρa male human bei
ἐν
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, ὅλοςall, the whole,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceκαί · 8,978× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Revelation Acts Mark John 1 Corinthians Romans Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

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2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ὄφελόνophelon I wish that G3785 Verb · second aorist · active · indicative · first person · singular
4× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This phrase is like saying 'I wish' and is used to express a strong desire for something. In 1 Corinthians 4:8, Paul uses this phrase to express a wish that the Corinthians were more spiritually mature.
Amplified meaning
it would be good, I desire
Tyndale gloss
I wish!
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ὄφελον is the second aorist form of ὀφείλω, expressing a wish that something were or had been the case, often translated as "O that!" or "Would that!" It appears in the New Testament in contexts like 1 Corinthians 4:8 and Galatians 5:12. The lexicons note its use with various verb forms to convey unattainable wishes.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ὄφελον, 2 aor. of ὀφείλω, without the augment (v. M, Pr., 201n), used to express a fruitless wish;

[in LXX (with aor. indic.): Ex 16:3 (מִי־יִתֵּן), Nu 14:3 (2) 20:3 (לוּא), Ps 118 (119):5 (אַחֲלֵי), etc.;]

in cl. with an infin. (chiefly poët.),

would that: with indic. aor., I Co 4:8; impf., II Co 11:1, Re 3:15; fut., Ga 5:12 (a practicable wish, v. Bl., 206 f., 220. The construction with indic. is only found in late writers.)†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ὄφελον (for ὥφελον, without the augm., 2 aor. of ὀφείλω; in earlier Grk. with an inf., as ὥφελον θανεῖν, I ought to have died, expressive of a wish, i. q. would that I were dead; in later Grk. it assumes the nature of an interjection, to be rendered) would that, where one wishes that a thing had happened which has not happened, or that a thing be done which probably will not be done [ef. W. 301 sq. (283); B. 8. 150, 5]: with an optative pres. Rev. iii. 15 Ree.; with an indicative impf., Rev. ibid. GLT Tr WH; 2 Co. xi. 1, (Epict. diss. 2, 18, 15; Ignat. ad Smyrn. ο. 12); with an indie. aorist, 1 Co. iv. 8 (Ps. exviii. (exix.) 5; ὄφελον ἀπεθάνομεν, Ex. xvi. 3; Num. xiv. 2; xx. 3); with the future, Gal. ν. 12 (Leian. soloee. [or Pseudosoph.] 1, where this construction is classed as a solecism). Cf. Passow ii. p. 603°; [L. and S. 5. v. ὀφείλω, IT.…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ὄφελον. This form = “1 would that,” which is found in the NT (1 Cor 45 a/.) for Sedov (cf. Moulton Pro/eg. p. 201), may be illustrated from OGZS 315! (B.c. 164-3) ὄφελομ μὲν ἡ θεὸς... στερῆσαι τὸν ταῦτα πο[ήσαντα ὧν] μάλιστα ἐπιθυμεῖ, where it will be noted the editor reads στερῆσαι (inf.) rather than στερήσαι (opt.). In P Giss I. 17! (time of Hadrian), a slave writes to her sick master—ddqedov εἰ ἐδυνάμεθα πέτασθαι καὶ ἐλθεῖν kal προσκυνῆσαί σε, “᾿ would that I could fly and come and pay my respects to you.” ᾿Ὥφελον is common with the Ist pers. in Epictetus (but does not occur in the NT), e.g. ii. 21. 1 Sedov ὡς φρένας ἔχω οὕτω καὶ τύχην εἶχον : for the 3rd pers. following, as in Gal 514, cf. 16. ii, 18. 15 ὥφελόν (ὄφελόν 5) τις μετὰ ταύτης…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ὄφελον (ophelon) — I wish!.

Included with: ὀφείλ-ω,

imperfect ὤφειλον; Epic dialect ὀφέλλω (also Aeolic dialect, [Refs 4th c.BC+]imperfect ὤφελλον or ὄφελλον, see infr. II. [Refs 8th c.BC+]: future ὀφειλήσω [Refs 5th c.BC+]: aorist 1 ὠφείλησα [Refs 5th c.BC+] (ἐπ-): perfect ὠφείληκα: pluperfect -ήκειν[Refs 4th c.BC+]aorist 2 ὤφελον (see. below [Refs]:—passive, aorist participle ὀφειληθείς [Refs 5th c.BC+]. (Cretan dialect ὀφήλω [Refs], written ὀπέλο [Refs 4th c.AD+] ὀφέλλω (see. above) and ὀφήλω [Refs 4th c.BC+]: in early Attic dialect Inscrr. written both ὀφελ -IG 12.91.8[Refs]:—owe, have to pay or account for, τὸ καὶ μοιχάγρι᾽ ὀφέλλει [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅτι μοι.. ζωάγρι᾽ ὀφέλλεις[Refs 8th c.BC+]; τί ὀφείλω; what do I owe? [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ὀ. ἀργύριον, χρέα, [Refs 5th c.BC+] to be debtor to another, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: absolutely, to be in debt, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; οἱ…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ὄφελον

ophelon

first person singular of a past tense of 3784; I ought (wish), i.e.

(interjection) oh that!:--would (to God).

see GREEK for 3784

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ὄφελον

v.

O that! I wish! Would that!

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ὄφελον ophelon 4x

originally a ptcp (aor act ptcp nom sg neut) from ὀφείλω, used in NT as an interj. to introduce a wish that cannot be attained, O that! Would that! 1 Cor. 4:8; 2 Cor. 11:1; Gal. 5:12; Rev. 3:15*

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-2AAI-1S — Verb · second aorist · active · indicative · first person · singular
second aorist active indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-2AAI-1S Part of Speech: Verb Tense: second Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: first Number: Singular

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

wish: The word appears both as a substantive and as a verb in the Old Testament, having a variety of meanings: (1) The substantive, peh, means "mouth" and also "speech." In this form it occurs in Job 33:6 margin: "Behold, I am according to thy wish in God's stead." Elihu here refers to Job's expressed desire for an umpire (9:33), and one who would maintain his right with God (16:21). (2) The verb: (a) haphets, "willing," or "desirous" (Ps 40:14 the King James Version); (b) sha'-al, "to ask," "petition," "supplicate" (Job 31:30 the King James Version); (c) another variation of meaning is found in Ps 73:7 where maskith, "to imagine," is translated "wish": "They have more…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
75%i wish
i wish75% · 3×i wish that25% · 1×

4 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 4 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
βασιλεύωI rule, reign, r
ζεστόςboiling hot
οὔτεNeg
ὄφελονI wish that
what comes after →
γέDisj
βασιλεύωI rule, reign, r
ἀνέχωI endure, bear with
ἐγώ
καίand, even, also, nam
ἀποκόπτωI smite, cut off
ψυχρόςcold, cold-hearted
εἰμίI am, exist

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceὄφελον · 4× in the New Testament
1 Corinthians 2 Corinthians Galatians Revelation
Across the New Testament4 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Ignatius of Antioch
Ignatius of AntiochThe Letters of Ignatius 6.12.1c. AD 110

καὶ ὄφελον πάντες αὐτὸν ἐμιμοῦντο, ὄντα ἐξεμπλάριον θεοῦ διακονίας.

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2nd c. AD
P.Giss. 1 73Apollonopolites HeptakomiasAD 113–AD 120

Ἀντώνιος Δῖος Ἀπολλωνίωι τῶι τιμιώτατωι χαίρειν. ἐκομισάμην σου τὴν ἐπιστολὴν ἡδέως καὶ περιμένω σε. ὄφελον δὲ καὶ τὸ πρὸς Ἀκύλαν ἐπιστόλιον πεπομφὼς ἢ

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
γεge really G1065 Particle
15× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
Indeed is a word that emphasizes or confirms a statement, as in Luke 11:8 and Romans 8:32. It's used to add strength or certainty to a claim, and can be translated as 'at least' or 'certainly' in English.
Tyndale gloss
indeed
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

γέ (ge) is an enclitic particle used to add emphasis or qualification, often translated as 'indeed,' 'at least,' or 'even.' It appears more frequently in classical Greek than in the New Testament, where it is used to highlight the significance of certain words or phrases. Notably, it can be combined with other particles to strengthen their meaning, as seen in verses like Luke 11:8 and Romans 8:32. There is some debate among lexicographers regarding its usage, particularly in how it interacts with other particles.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

γε, enclitic postpositive particle, rarer in κοινή than in cl., giving special prominence to the word to which it is attached, distinguishing it as the least or the most important (Thayer, s.v.),

indeed, at least, even (but not always translatable into English);

used alone: Lk 11:8 18:5 Ro 8:32.

More freq. with other particles: αλλά γε, Lk 24:21, I Co 9:2; ἄρα γε, Mt 7:20 17:26, Ac 17:27; ἆρά γε, Ac 8:30; εἴ γε (Rec. εἴγε), II Co 5:3,

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γέ, an enclitic particle, answering exactly to no one word in Lat. or Eng.; used by the bibl. writ. much more rarely than by Grk. writ. How the Greeks use it, is shown by (among others) Hermann ad Vig. p. 822 sqq.: Klotz ad Devar. ii. 1 p. 272 sqq.; Rost in Passow’s Lex. i. p. 538 sqq.; [L. and S.s.v.; 7. S. vans in Journ. of class. and saer. Philol. for 1857, p. 187 sqq.]. It indiγέ abt eates that the meaning of the word to which it belongs has especial prominence, and therefore that that word is to be distinguished from the rest of the sentence and uttered with greater emphasis. This distinction “ can be made in two ways, by mentioning either the least important or the most; thus it happens that yé seems to have contrary significations: at least and even” (Hermann I. c. p. 822). 1. where what is least is indicated; indeed, truly, at least: διά ye τὴν ἀναίδειαν, Lk. xi. 8 (where, since…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

γέ (ge) — indeed.

γε,

Doric dialect and Boeotian dialect γα, enclitic Particle, giving emphasis to the word or words which it follows.

I. with single words, at least, at any rate, but often only to be rendered by italics in writing, or emphasis in pronunciation: τὸ γὰρ.. σιδήρου γε κράτος ἐστίν such is the power of iron, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; εἴ που πτωχῶν γε θεοὶ.. εἰσίν if the poor have any gods to care for them,[Refs]; ὅ γ᾽ ἐνθάδε λεώς at any rate the people here, [Refs 5th c.BC+] not even two, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; οὔκουν φθόγγος γε not the least sound, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. with Pronouns: with pronoun of 1st pers. [Refs 8th c.BC+]; τουτογί, ταυταγί, etc., [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ὅσον γε χρῄζεις even as much as..,[Refs 5th c.BC+]: rarely with interrogative Pronouns, τίνα γε.. εἶπας ;[Refs 5th c.BC+]…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

γέ

ge

a primary particle of emphasis or qualification (often used with other

particles prefixed):--and besides, doubtless, at least, yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

γε

Disj.prt.

at least, indeed, really

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

γε ge 24x

an enclitic particle imparting emphasis; indicating that a particular regard is to be had to the term to which it is attached. Its force is to be conveyed, when this is possible, by various expression; at least, indeed, even

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Particle — Particle
particle — a small word colouring the clause; it does not decline.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

PRT PaRTicle, disjunctive particle

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
57%indeed
indeed57% · 16×yet14% · 4×even11% · 3×surely7% · 2×also4% · 1×really4% · 1×at least4% · 1×

28 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 7 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial13%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 15 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
εἰCond
εἰκῇwithout purpose,
διά
αὐτός
ἀλλάbut, except
ἸσραήλPropἀπόστολοςan apostle, a me
ἆραIrg
λέγωI say, speakεἰCond
καίand, even, also, nam
εὑρίσκωI find
γέreally15×
what comes after →
καίand, even, also, nam
σύνἐνδύωI put on, clotheεἰκῇwithout purpose,
Article the
ἀναίδειαshamelessness, sπαρέχωI offer, provideἴδιοςone’s own, priva
γινώσκωI come to know, lear
ὅς
ψηλαφάωI feel, touch, handl
αὐτός
οὐNeg
μακράνfar away

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceγέ · 15× in the New Testament
Acts Luke 1 Corinthians Ephesians 2 Corinthians Colossians Galatians Philippians Romans
Across the New Testament9 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 29 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἐβασιλεύσατε,basileuō you did reign, G936 Verb · aorist · active · indicative · second person · plural
21× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To reign means to rule or have authority, as seen in 1 Timothy 6:15. It can be used for human kings, God, or Jesus Christ, emphasizing their power and dominion.
Amplified meaning
truly reigning, exercising spiritual authority
Tyndale gloss
to reign
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word βασιλεύω (i.e., *basileuō*) means to reign or rule, derived from βασιλεύς (king). It covers a range of meanings from literal kingship to metaphorical reign, including God's sovereignty and the future reign of Christians. The New Testament references include Matthew 2:22 and Revelation 5:10. Notably, the lexicons mention its use in both a literal and figurative sense, with some discussing its ingressive aorist form.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

βασιλεύω,

(< βασιλεύς),

[in LXX for מלךְ, its parts and derivatives, exc. IV Ki 15:5 (ישׁב);]

to be king, to reign, rule: I Ti 6:15; c. gen. (cl.), Mt 2:22; seq. ἐπί, c. acc. (= Heb. מלךְ על; Bl., § 36, 8), Lk 1:33 19:14, 27, Ro 5:14; ἐπὶ τ. γῆς, on earth, Re 5:10; of God, Re 11:15, 17 19:6; of Christ, Lk 1:33, I Co 15:25, Re 11:15; of Christians, Re 5:10 20:4 (constative aor., M, Pr.…

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

βασιλεύω ; fut. βασιλεύσω ; 1 aor. ἐβασίλευσα; (βασιλεύς) ; —in Grk. writ. [fr. Hom. down] with gen. or dat., in the sacred writ., after the Hebr. (Sy win), foll. by emi with gen. of place, Mt. ii. 22 (where LT WH om. ‘irbr. ἐπί) ; Rev. v.10; foll. by ἐπί with acc. of the pers., Lk. i. 33; xix. 14,27; Ro. v.14; [ef. W. 206 (193 sq.); B. 169 (147) ]—to be king, to exercise kingly power, «9 reign: univ., 1 Tim. vi. 15; Lk. xix. 14,27; of the governor of a country, although not possessing kingly Bacrato rank, Mt. ii. 22; of God, Rev. xi. 15, 17; xix. 6; of the rule of Jesus, the Messiah, Lk. i. 33; 1 Co. xv. 25; Rev. xi. 15; of the reign of Christians in the millennium, Rey. v. 10; xx. 4, 6; xxii. 5; hence Paul transfers the word to denote the supreme moral dignity, liberty, blessedness, which will be enjoyed by Christ’s redeemed ones: Ro. v. 17 (ef. De Wette and Thol. ad loc.) ; 1 Co. iv.…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

βασιλεύω. A good example of the ingressive aorist is afforded by the new Agraphon as restored by the editors—P Oxy IV. 654° θαμ]βηθεὶς βασιλεύσει καῇ βασιλεύσας ἀναπα]ήσεται, ““ astonished he shall reach the Kingdom, and having reached the Kingdom he shall rest”: see /0/eg. p. 130. The verb is used to render the Persian title (see under βασιλεύς) in P Sa‘id Khan 1 (a)! (B.c. 88) βασιλεύοντος βασιλέων Ἀρσάκου : 1 (4)! and 2! (B.c. 22-1) have the same formula. CPHerm 1254.% (a.p. 260-8) διατρίβοντός colv] ἐπὶ τῆς βασιλευούσης Ῥώμης supplies an illustration for Rev 187, For the relation of the Pauline conception of ‘‘ the saint as king” (Rom 517, 2 Tim 215) to the Greek philosophic ideal, see Ramsay 7eaching, p. 157 ff.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

βασιλεύω (basileuō) — to reign.

βᾰσῐλ-εύω,

to be king, rule, reign, οὐ μέν πως πάντες βασιλεύσομεν ἐνθάδ᾽ Ἀχαιοί [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἐν ὑμῖν.. βασίλευε was king among you, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; also of a woman, ἢ βασίλευεν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ reigned as queen, [Refs 8th c.BC+]: in aorist, to have become king, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: with genitive, to be king of, rule over, ἐν.. Ἰθάκῃ βασιλεύσει Ἀχαιῶν [Refs 8th c.BC+]: with dative, to be king among, Γιγάντεσσιν βασίλευεν [LXX+8th c.BC+]:—passive, to be governed by a king, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: generally, to be governed or administered, [Refs 5th c.BC+]: hence, submit to the king, [Refs 1st c.AD+]

__b to be ἄρχων β. at Athens, [Refs 5th c.BC+] of other magistrates, [Refs]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

βασιλεύω

basileuo

from 935; to rule (literally or figuratively):--king, reign.

see GREEK for 935

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

βασιλεύω

v.

I rule, reign, reign over

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

βασιλεύω basileuō 21x

to possess regal authority, be a king, reign; to rule, govern, Mt. 2:22; met. to be in force, predominate, prevail, Rom. 5:14, 17, 21; met. to be in kingly case, fare royally, 1 Cor. 4:8

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

βασιλεύω βασιλεύς to be king, to rule, reign, Hom., etc.; of a woman, to be queen, id. Hom.; c. gen. to be king of, Od.; also, ὄφρ᾽ Ἰθάκης κατὰ δῆμον βασιλεύοι id. Od.; in aor. to have become king, Hdt.; c. dat. to be king among others, Od.:—Pass. to be governed by a king, Plat.: to submit to the king, Plut.

to be master of a thing, c. gen., Theocr.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AAI-2P — Verb · aorist · active · indicative · second person · plural
aorist active indicative — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AAI-2P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Indicative Person: second Number: Plural

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ran: The Hebrew word malekhuth, may be rendered "kinghood," "royal dignity," "kingdom," "government" ("reign"). The verb is malakh, "to be king" ("to reign as king"), "to become king," "to accede to the throne," "to assume royal power publicly" and, generally speaking, "to become powerful." In the New Testament hegemonia, basileia, basileuein. The word is used, either as a noun or as a verb, of Yahweh (God), the Messiah (Christ) and men (kings, etc.); then of such terms as sin, death, grace; of the woman in Revelation and, conditionally, of the Christians; once, ironically, of the Corinthians. "Reign" as a noun referring to the time of reigning occurs in 1Ki 6:1 (Solomon); 2Ki 24:12 (Nebuchadnezzar); 1Ch 4:31 (David; compare

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
14%reigned
reigned14% · 3×reign14% · 3×will reign10% · 2×they will reign10% · 2×he will reign10% · 2×may reign5% · 1×should reign5% · 1×you reigned5% · 1×other renderings29% · 6×

21 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 14 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
verb100%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 21 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
καίand, even, also, nam
αὐτόςἱερεύςa priestμέγας
ἐγώ
θέλωI will, wish, deχωρίςapart from, with
ἈρχέλαοςArchelaus
ὅτιthat, since, bec
οὗτος
θέλωI will, wish, de
ἀλλάbut, except
βασιλεύωyou did reign,21×
what comes after →
Article the
ἁμαρτίαa sinἸουδαίαJudeaθάνατοςdeath
ἐπί
Article theἐγώαὐτός
διά
Article theδικαιοσύνηjustice, justnes
καίand, even, also, nam
ὄφελονO that! I wish! κύριοςlord, Lord, mast
εἰς
Article the

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceβασιλεύω · 21× in the New Testament
Revelation Romans 1 Corinthians Luke 1 Timothy Matthew
Across the New Testament6 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 114 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria Ignatius of Antioch The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Confusion of Tongues 91c. AD 40

1,11) τῷ βασιλεύειν δοκοῦντι νῷ, βουλόμενοι τοῦτο ἐνδείξασθαι, ὅτι δοῦλον μὲν τὸ ἀγαθὸν κακοῦ πάθος τ’ εὐπαθείας δυνατώτερον, φρόνησις δὲ καὶ πᾶσα ἀρετὴ ἀφροσύνης καὶ κακίας ἁπάσης ὑπήκοον, ὡς ὑπηρετεῖν ἐξ ἀνάγκης ἅττ’ ἂν προστάττῃ τὸ δεσπόζον.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.159c. AD 75–95

Ἁβράμης ἐβασίλευσεν ἔπηλυς σὺν στρατῷ ἀφιγμένος ἐκ τῆς γῆς τῆς ὑπὲρ Βαβυλῶνος Χαλδαίων λεγομένης.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 4.4c. AD 100

λέγει δὲ οὕτως καὶ ὁ προφήτης: Βασιλεῖαι δέκα ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς βασιλεύσουσιν, καὶ ἐξαναστήσεται ὄπισθεν μικρὸς βασιλεύς, ὃς ταπεινώσει τρεῖς ὑφ̓ ἓν τῶν βασιλέων.

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2nd c. BC 1st c. BC 6th c. AD undated 3rd c. BC
P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων

BGU 3 1000Pathyris99 BC

Column i βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ ἐφʼ ἱερέων

P.Adl. 20Poinkoris (Diopolites)99 BC

1 βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρου θεοῦ Φιλομήτορος καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεᾶς Φιλαδέλφου ἔτους ἑκκαιδεκάτου

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἵναhina so that G2443 Conjunction
669× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This word means 'in order that' or 'to', showing purpose or result, as seen in Acts 19:4 and Romans 11:31. It's used to express a goal or outcome. In Ephesians 1:17, it's used to describe a purpose.
Tyndale gloss
in order that/to
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word ἵνα is primarily a conjunction meaning 'in order that' or 'that,' indicating purpose or intention. It can also function as an adverb of place, meaning 'where' or 'whither.' In the New Testament, it appears in various contexts, often introducing clauses that express purpose, such as in Matthew 1:22. The lexicons do not show significant disagreement on its meanings or usages.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἵνα,

adverb (poët., Hom., al.),

of place, where, whither.

of circumstance, when.

Conjunction,

prop., final, denoting purpose or end (cl.), that, in order that, usually the first word in the clause, but sometimes (cl. also) preceded by an emphatic word (Ac 19:4, Ro 11:31 (?), Ga 2:10, al.);

c. optat. (so in cl. after historic tenses): after a pres., Eph 1:17 (but WH, mg., subjc.; v. Burton, § 225, Rem., 2);

c. subjc.: after a pres., Mk 4:21, Lk 6:34, Jo 3:15, Ac 2:25,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἵνα, I. an adv. of Place. fr. Hom. down, esp. in the poets; a. where; in what place. b. to what place; whither. Of the former signification C. F. A. Fritzsche (on Mt. p. 836; differently in Fritzschiorum Opusce. p. 186 sqq-.) thought he had found two examples in bibl. Greek, and H. A. W. Meyer agrees with him. The first viz. iva μὴ φυσιοῦσθε, 1 Co. iv. 6, they explain thus: where (i. e. in which state of things viz. when ye have leatned from my example to think humbly of yourselves) the one is not exalted to the other’s disadvantage; the second, iva αὐτοὺς ζηλοῦτε, Gal. iv. 17, thus: where ye zealously court them; but see II. 1 d. below. “ iva I. a final Conjunction (for from local direction, indicated by the adverb, the transition was easy te mental direction or intention) denoting pur pose and end: to the intent that; to the end that, in order that; ἵνα pn, that not, lest; it is used…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

ἵνα (hina) — in order that/to.

ἵνα,

adverb,

I. of Place,

I.1. in that place, there, once in [Refs 8th c.BC+]

I.2. elsewhere relative, in which place, where,[Refs 8th c.BC+]: rarely in Attic dialect Prose, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵ. ἡ Νίκη (i.e. ἐστίν) [Refs 8th c.BC+] [same place]; ἵν᾽ ἄν with subjunctive, wherever, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; as indirect interrogative, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. b after [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἔμαθε ἵ. ἦν κακοῦ in what a calamity, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; ἵν᾽ ἕσταμεν χρείας[Refs 5th c.BC+]

I.2. c with Verbs of motion, whither, [Refs 8th c.BC+]

II. of circumstance, γάμος.., ἵ. χρή at which, when, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; ἵ. μὲν ἐξῆν αὐτοῖς.., ἐνταῦθα.. when it was in their power, [Refs 5th c.BC+]

II.2. ={ἐάν}, uncertain in [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἵνα

hina

probably from the same as the former part of 1438 (through the

demonstrative idea; compare 3588); in order that (denoting the purpose

or the result):--albeit, because, to the intent (that), lest, so as,

(so) that, (for) to. Compare 3363.

see GREEK for 1438

see GREEK for 3588

see GREEK for 3363

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

ἵνα

Cj.

in order that, so that

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἵνα hina 663x

that, in order that, Mt. 19:13; Mk. 1:38; Jn. 1:22; 3:15; 17:1; ἵνα μή, that not, lest, Mt. 7:1; in NT equivalent to ὥστε, so that, so as that, Jn. 9:2; also, marking a simple circumstance, the circumstance that, Mt. 10:25; Jn. 4:34; 6:29; 1 Jn. 4:17; 5:3

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

ἵνα Adverb,

of Place,

demonstr. in that place, there, only in Il. 10. 127.

relat., = ὅπου, in which place, where, Hdt., etc.;—so, ἵνα τε Il.; ἵνα περ Hom.:—c. gen., ἵνα γῆς in whatever part of the land, Hdt.; ἔμαθε ἵνα ἦν κακοῦ in what a calamity, id. Hdt.; οὐχ ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ εἶ κακοῦ Soph.

= ὅποι, with Verbs of motion, whither, Od.; ὁρᾷς ἵν᾽ ἥκεις Soph.

of circumstance, when, at which, Od.

Final Conjunction, = ὅπως, that, in order that, Lat. ut, Hom.:

with subj.,

after principal tenses of ind., id. Hom., etc.

after historical tenses, in similes, where the aor. refers to any possible time, Od.

after opt. and ἄν, ἔδωκε μένος, ἵνα γένοιτο she gave him vigour, that he might become, Il.

with opt., after historical tenses, Hom., etc.

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Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

so (co', although the Hebrew might be pointed cewe'; Assyrian Sib'u; Septuagint Segor, Soa; Manetho, Seuechos; Latin Sevechus; Herodotus (ii. 137 ff), Sabakon): In all probability the "Sabaeo" of Herodotus, the Shabaka, who founded the Ethiopian dynasty, the XXVth of Egyptian kings. His date is given as 715-707 BC (Flinders Petrie, History of Egypt, III, 281 ff), but we may suppose that before his accession to the throne he was entitled to be designated king, as being actually regent. To this So, Hoshea, king of Israel, made an appeal for assistance to enable him to throw off the yoke of the Assyrian Shalmaneser IV (2Ki 17:3). But Hoshea's submission to So brought him no advantage, for Shalmaneser came up throughout all the land and laid siege to Samaria. Not long after the fall of Samaria, So ventured upon an eastern campaign, and…

Easton's Bible Dictionary

So

(Nubian, Sabako), an Ethiopian king who brought Egypt under his sway. He was bribed by Hoshea to help him against the Assyrian monarch Shalmaneser (2 Kings 17:4). This was a return to the policy that had been successful in the reign of Jeroboam I.

Smith's Bible Dictionary

"So, king of Egypt," is once mentioned in the Bible -- (2 Kings 17:4) So has been identified by different writers with the first and second kings of the Ethiopian twenty-fifth dynasty, called by Manetho, Sabakon (Shebek) and Sebichos (Shebetek).

American Tract Society Bible Dictionary

King of Egypt, made an alliance with Hoshea king of Israel, and promised him assistance; but was unable to prevent Shalmaneser king of Assyria from taking Samaria and subverting the kingdom, B. C. 721, 2Ki 17:4. See PHARAOH.

So is believed to have been the Servetus or Sabaco II of secular history, the second king of the Ethiopian or twenty-fifth dynasty, and the predecessor of Trihakah. A singular fact has been brought to light by the recent explorations at Nineveh, corroborating the Scripture record the more forcibly, because unexpected and direct. The Bible shows that Egypt and Assyria, though remote, were often in conflict during the height of the Assyrian ruins power, and that So was at war with Shalmaneser. After war comes the treaty of peace; and as the Bible prepares us to suppose such treaties were made, the Assyrian ruins…

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
56%that
that56% · 382×so that40% · 271×other renderings4% · 24×

677 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 10 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial8%object3%subject3%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 669 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
παρακαλέωI summon, entreaἐπιτιμάωI rebuke, chide,δίδωμιI offer, give
σύ
λαλέωI speak, sayδιάδίδωμιI offer, give
ἐγώ
δίδωμιI offer, giveὑπέρπερί
ἀλλάbut, except
αὐτόςκόσμοςthe world, univeἐγώ
εἰμίI am, exist
τίςIrgἐγώἱκανόςsufficient, wort
ἵναso that669×
what comes after →
μήNeg
Article theτὶςεἰς
Article the
γραφήa writing, passaχαράjoy, gladnessλόγοςa word, speech,
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theσύαὐτός
ἐν
αὐτόςἐγώὅς
εἰμίI am, exist
μετάεἷςoneἅγιοςset apart, holy,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceἵνα · 669× in the New Testament
John Mark 1 Corinthians Luke 2 Corinthians Revelation Matthew Romans Ephesians Hebrews 1 John Acts

Every reference is on the Strong's page.

Across the New Testament26 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 300 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Philo of Alexandria Josephus The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch The Epistle of Barnabas
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 15c. AD 40

ἑκάστῃ δὲ τῶν ἡμερῶν ἀπένειμεν ἔνια τῶν τοῦ παντὸς τμημάτων τὴν πρώτην ὑπεξελόμενος, ἣν αὐτὸς οὐδὲ πρώτην, ἵνα μὴ ταῖς ἄλλαις συγκαταριθμῆται, καλεῖ, μίαν δ’ ὀνομάσας ὀνόματι εὐθυβόλῳ προσαγορεύει, τὴν μονάδος φύσιν καὶ πρόσρησιν ἐνιδών τε καὶ…

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.71c. AD 75–95

ἵνα καὶ τῆς πλινθίνης ἀφανισθείσης ὑπὸ τῆς ἐπομβρίας ἡ λιθίνη μείνασα παράσχῃ μαθεῖν τοῖς ἀνθρώποις τὰ ἐγγεγραμμένα δηλοῦσα καὶ πλινθίνην ὑπʼ αὐτῶν ἀνατεθῆναι.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.5c. AD 100

λογισάμενος οὖν τοῦτο, ὅτι ἐὰν μελήσῃ μοι περὶ ὑμῶν τοῦ μέρος τι μεταδοῦναι ἀφ̓ οὗ ἔλαβον, ὅτι ἔσται μοι τοιούτοις πνεύμασιν ὑπηρετήσαντι εἰς μισθόν, ἐσπούδασα κατὰ μικρὸν ὑμῖν πέμπειν, ἵνα μετὰ τῆς πίστεως ὑμῶν τελείαν ἔχητε τὴν γνῶσιν.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. BC 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Edg. $1Alexandria259 BC–257 BC

καὶ θεῶν μὴ ὀκνήσῃς διελθὼν εἰς ἐμπόριον καὶ ἀγοράσας, οὐθὲν γὰρ ἄλλο ἡμᾶς ἐπικωλύει, ἵνα μὴ ὑστερήσωμεν τῆς ἐργασίας. τὰς δὲ τιμὰς τούτων λαβὲ παρὰ Ἀπολλοφάνους. τὸ γύναιον ἐπίτοκον

vestiges … ἵνα μηθὲν ἐν τούτοις ἀγνοηθῆι … … Ἑρμίαι τῶν διαδόχων καὶ ἐπιμελητῆι, παρὰ Δρύτωνος τοῦ

P.Bour. 11Pathyris89 BC

ἕκαστος τῶν παρὰ σοὶ σιτοποιησάμενος πυροῦ ἀρτάβην μίαν ἐν ἑτοίμωι ἔσται αὐτοῖς ὁ ἄρτος, ἵνα δὲ καὶ κριθὴ ὑπάρξηι ἐπιμε … … ηγησαιἐμμέτρως αἴτησαιἐμμε … … τησαι ἔρρωσο ἔτους

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
καὶkai also G2532 Conjunction
8,978× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
And or also, a connecting word used to join ideas or words, like in Matthew 2:18 and Hebrews 1:1.
Tyndale gloss
and
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

καί (kai) is a conjunction meaning 'and,' used to connect words, phrases, and clauses. It serves various functions, including copulative and adjunctive uses, and can express cumulative ideas like 'also' or 'even.' The New Testament frequently employs it to link terms and sentences, as seen in verses like Matthew 2:18 and John 10:3. Abbott-Smith notes its use in both simple and complex structures, while Thayer emphasizes its role as the most common particle in the New Testament.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

καί,

conj.,

and.

Copulative.

Connecting single words;

in general: Mt 2:18 16:1, Mk 2:15, Lk 8:15, He 1:1, al. mult.; repeated before each of the terms in a series, Mt 23:23, Lk 14:21, Ro 7:12 9:4, al.;

connecting numerals (WM, § 37, 4): Jo 2:20, Ac 13:20;

joining terms which are not mutually exclusive, as the part with the whole: Mt 8:33 26:59, Mk 16:17,

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

καί, a conj., and; the most freq. by far of all the particles in the N. T. [On its uses see W. § 53, 3sqq.; B. 361 (310) sqq., and ef. Ellicott on Phil. iv. 12; on the difference between it and τέ see 8. v. τέ ad init. ] I. It serves as a copulative i.e. to connect (Lat. et, atque, Germ. und) ; 1. it connects single words or terms: a. univ., as of Φαρισαῖοι καὶ Σαδδουκαῖοι, Mt. xvi. 1; ὁ θεὸς καὶ πατήρ, he who is God and Father (see θεός, 3); ἐν καρδίᾳ καλῇ καὶ ἀγαθῇ, Lk. viii. 15; πολυμερῶς καὶ πολυτρόπως, ΗΘ}. 1. 1; it is repeated before single terms, to each of which its own force and weight is thus given: ἡ υἱοθεσία καὶ ἡ δόξα καὶ ai διαθῆκαι καὶ ἡ νομοθεσία καὶ ἡ λατρεία καὶ αἱ ἐπαγγελίαι, Ro. ix. 4 ; ἁγία καὶ δικαία καὶ ἀγαθή, Ro. vii. 12; add, Mt. xxiii. 23; Lk. xiv. 21; Jn. xvi. 8; Acts xv. 20, 29; xxi. 25; Heb. ix. 10; Rey. v. 12; xviii. 12 sq.; ef. W. 519 sq. (484). b. it…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

και. In LAE p. 129 ff. Deissmann discusses the thoroughly popular character of the Johannine style with its short paratactic sentences, introduced by kal. . . καί. To illustrate this, he cites amongst other exx. a Dream from the Serapeum, P Par 51 (B.C. 160) (= Selections, p. 18 ff. : see especially the amended readings in Archiv vi. p. 204), which runs—** ὦμ[ην] βατί -- δ)ίζειν pe [ἀπ]ὸ λειβὸς ἕως ἀ[ πηλι]ώτου, καὶ ἀναπίπτομαι ἐπ᾿ ἄχυρον" καὶ [ἄν]θρωπ[ος9] ἀπὸ λιβός μου, ἐχόμενός μου’ ἀναπίπτει καὶ αὐτός, καὶ ὥσπερ κεκλειμμ[évot] μου ἦσαν οἱ ὀφθαλμοί μου, καὶ ἐξαί[φνης] ἀνύγω τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς pov, καὶ ὁρῶ kTA., “ I dreamed that I was going from West to East, and I lie down upon chaff. And there | αὐτὸ (deleted in the original) Σεμφθεῖ. | ἐκ καινῆς ἐν Σομολ(ῶ)…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

καί (kai) — and.

καί,

conjunction, copulative, joining words and sentences,

__A and; also adverb, even, also, just, frequently expressing emphatic assertion or assent, corresponding as positive to the negative οὐ (μή) or οὐδέ (μηδέ). copulative, and,

__A.I joining words or sentences to those preceding, ἦ, καὶ κυανέῃσιν ἐπ᾽ ὀφρύσινεῦσε Κρονίων [Refs 8th c.BC+]: repeated with two or more Nouns, αἱ δὲ ἔλαφοι κ. δορκάδες κ. οἱ ἄγριοι οἶες κ. οἱ ὄνοι οἱ ἄγριοι [Refs 5th c.BC+]; joining only the last pair, [Refs 4th c.BC+]; ὁ ὄχλος πλείων κ. πλείων ἐπέρρει more and more, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; to add epithets after πολύς, πολλὰ κ. ἐσθλά [Refs 8th c.BC+]

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

καί

kai

apparently, a primary particle, having a copulative and sometimes also

a cumulative force; and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in

connection (or composition) with other particles or small words:--and,

also, both, but, even, for, if, or, so, that, then, therefore, when,

yet.

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

καί

Cj.

and, even, also, namely

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

καί kai 9x

(1) and, Mt. 2:2, 3, 11; 4:22; (2) καί ... καί, both ... and; (3) as a cumulative particle, also, too, Mt. 5:39; Jn. 8:19; 1 Cor. 11:6; (4) emphatic, even, also, Mt. 10:30; 1 Cor. 2:10; in NT adversative, but, Mt. 11:19; also introductory of the apodosis of a sentence, Gal. 3:28; Jas. 2:4

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Conj — Conjunction
conjunction — it joins clauses, and never changes form.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

CONJ CONJunction or conjunctive particle

Bible dictionarieson the English sense
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia

ol'-so: In the Greek kai, when it is equivalent to "also" or "even," is always placed before the word or phrase which it is intended to emphasize (e.g. Ac 12:3; 1 Joh 4:21). Mt 6:14 should therefore read, "Your heavenly Father will forgive you also"; Lu 6:13, "Whom also he named apostles"; Heb 8:6, "The mediator of a better covenant also"; and 1Th 4:14, `If we believe that Jesus died and rose again, so also (we believe that) those who are fallen asleep in Jesus, God will bring with Him.'

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
89%and
and89% · 8448×also8% · 714×other renderings2% · 191×other renderings1% · 124×

9,477 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 42 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
adverbial16%subject13%object10%predicate3%verb2%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 8,978 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
αὐτός
ἐνἐπίπρός
σύ
χάριςgrace, favor, kiπρόςπατήρfather, Father,
ἐγώ
πατήρfather, Father, πρόςθεόςGod, a god
εἰμίI am, exist
αὐτόςArticle theἐγώ
θεόςGod, a god
Article theθέλημαwill, wish, desiδέbut, on the othe
καίalso8978×
what comes after →
Article the
ἀδελφόςa brotherπατήρfather, Father, μήτηρa mother
λέγωI say, speak
αὐτόςArticle theπρός
οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, existμήNegδύναμαιI am powerful, a
ὁράωI see, look upon, ex
Article theαὐτόςἀνήρa male human bei
ἐν
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, ὅλοςall, the whole,

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceκαί · 8,978× in the New Testament
Luke Matthew Revelation Acts Mark John 1 Corinthians Romans Hebrews 2 Corinthians Ephesians 1 John

3 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Clement of Rome Ignatius of Antioch
Philo of AlexandriaOn the Creation of the World 1c. AD 40

Τῶν ἄλλων νομοθετῶν οἱ μὲν ἀκαλλώπιστα καὶ γυμνὰ τὰ νομισθέντα παρ’ αὐτοῖς εἶναι δίκαια διετάξαντο, οἱ δὲ πολὺν ὄγκον τοῖς νοήμασι προσπεριβαλόντες ἐξετύφωσαν τὰ πλήθη μυθικοῖς πλάσμασι τὴν ἀλήθειαν ἐπικρύψαντες.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.argc. AD 75–95

ἡ τοῦ κόσμου σύστασις καὶ διάταξις τῶν στοιχείων.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.1c. AD 100

Χαίρετε, υἱοὶ καὶ θυγατέρες, ἐν ὀνόματι κυρίου τοῦ ἀγαπήσαντος ἡμᾶς, ἐν εἰρήνῃ.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 4th c. AD 1st c. AD 6th c. AD
P.Stras. 2 89Pathyris100 BC

r βασιλεύοντος Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν Φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιε, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

P.Adl. 11Pathyris99 BC

1 ἔτους ιζ Θῶυθ κη ἀπέδοτο Πετεσοῦχος Φίβιος καὶ οἱ ἀδελφοὶ τὸ ὕπαρχον αὐτοῖς ἥμισυ περιστερῶνος τοῦ ὄντος ἐν τῶι ἀπὸ βορρᾶ μέρει

P.Grenf. 2 35Pathyris99 BC

βασιλευόντων Πτολεμαίου τοῦ ἐπικαλουμένου Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ Βερενίκης τῆς ἀδελφῆς θεῶν φιλομητόρων ἔτους ιϛ, ἐφʼ ἱερέων καὶ ἱερειῶν καὶ κανηφόρου τῶν

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ἡμεῖςegō we ourselves G3165 Personal pronoun · first person · nominative · plural
1,872× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
In plain English
Tyndale gloss
I/we
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

ἐγώ, gen, etc., ἐμοῦ, ἐμοί, ἐμέ (enclitic μου, μοι, με), pl. ἡμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς,

pers. pron.

I.

The nom. is usually emphatic, when expressed as subjc, as in Mt 3:11, Mk 1:8, Lk 3:16, al. But often there is no apparent emphasis, as Mt 10:16, Jo 10:17; ἰδοὺ ἐ. (= Heb. הִנֵּנִי, cf. I Ki 3:8), Ac 9:10; ἐ. (like Heb. אֲנִי), I am, Jo 1:23 (LXX), Ac 7:32 (LXX).

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Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

ἐγώ, gen. ἐμοῦ, enclitic pod; dat. ἐμοί, enclitic μοί; acc. ἐμέ, enclitic μέ; plur. ἡμεῖς, ete.; personal pronoun, J. 1. The nominatives ἐγώ and ἡμεῖς, when joined to a verb, generally have force and emphasis, or indicate antithesis, as Mt. iii. 11; Mk.i. 8; Lk. iii. 16 (ἐγὼ pev... ὁ δέ); Mt. iii. 14 (ἐγὼ... ἔχω, καὶ σύν ; V. 22, 28, 39, and often; ἡμεῖς, contrasted with God, Mt. vi. 12; ἡμεῖς x. of Φαρισαῖοι, Mt. ix. 14; cf. W. § 22,6. But sometimes they are used where there is no emphasis or antithesis in them, as Mt. x. 16; Jn. x. 17; and in many edd. in Mk. i. 2; Lk. vii. 27; οἵ. B. §129, 12. ἰδοὺ ἐγώ, 1397, behold me, hereamT: Acts ix.10 (1S. iii. 8). ἐγώ, like 38, Jam: Jn. i. 23; Acts vii. 32, [ef. W.585 (544); B. 125 (109)]. 2. The enclitic (and monosyllabic) gen., dat., and ace. are connected with nouns, verbs, adverbs, but not with prepositions: ἔμπροσθέν pov, Jn. i. 15; ὀπίσω…

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Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

ἐγώ. Deissmann (ZAZ p. 134 ff.) has drawn attention to the parallels to the solemn use of the first personal pronoun in the Fourth Gospel that may be adduced from inscriptions and magical texts. Thus in an inscr. in honour of Isis from Ios, written in ii/iii A.p., the contents of which are preChristian, we find —Elows ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ τ[ύρανν]ος πάσης χόρας.. ἐγὼ νόμους ἀνθρώποις ἐθέμην . . ἐγώ εἰμι Kpdvov θυγάτηρ πρεσβυτάτη α΄. And similarly in the magical papyrus P Lond 4645 (iv/a.p.) (=I. p. 69) ἐγώ εἰμι ὃ ἀκέφαλος δαίμων . . ἐγώ εἰμι ἡ ἀλήθεια ὁ μεισῶν ἀδικήματα γείνεσθαι ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ α΄. With the construction of the phrase τί ἐμοὶ καὶ σοί ; in Jn 24 we may compare BGU IV. 1141°8 (n.c. 14) ἐδίδουν αὐτῷ διαστολὰς μηδὲν αὐτῶι καὶ ἐκείνωι εἶναι : for its meaning see Ε΄. C. Burkitt in 77:5 xiii. p- 594f., where it is rendered, ‘‘ What have I and thou to do with that ?” On the difficult…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

μέ (me) — me.

ἐγώ,

I: pronoun of the first person:—Epic dialect mostly ἐγών before vowels (so in Doric dialect, before consonants, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἱών [Refs 2nd c.AD+]:— strengthened ἔγωγε, I at least, for my part, indeed, for myself (more frequently in Attic dialect than in [Refs 8th c.BC+]: Doric dialect ἐγώνγα [Refs 7th c.BC+]: Boeotian dialect ἱώνγα [Refs 6th c.BC+]; ἱώνει [Refs]; ἰώγα [Refs 5th c.BC+]: Laconian dialect and Tarentum dialect ἐγώνη, [Refs 2nd c.AD+]

II. oblique cases from a different root, genitive ἐμοῦ, enclitic μο; Ionic dialect and Epic dialect ἐμέο, ἐμεῦ, μευ, also ἐμέθεν [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Aeolic dialect ἔμεθεν [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect ἐμέος, ἐμεῦς, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect ἐμοῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+] — _dative_ ἐμοί, enclitic μοι (which may be compared with Sanskrit…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

ἐγώ

me

a shorter (and probably originally) from of 1691; me:--I, me, my.

see GREEK for 1691

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

ἐγώ egō 2x

I, gen., ἐμοῦ [μου], dat., ἐμοί [μοι], acc., ἐμέ [με]

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-1NP — Personal pronoun · first person · nominative · plural
nominative — the one doing it — the subject.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-1NP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: first Case: Nominative Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
35%us
us35% · 717×me32% · 644×mine20% · 402×we ourselves6% · 124×my2% · 45×other renderings5% · 97×

2,029 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 27 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
ὑμῖνsu you G4771 Personal pronoun · second person · dative · plural
2,892× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
about as common in 1 Corinthians as anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
This Greek word means 'you' and is used to address someone directly, like in John 1:30 and Matthew 26:64. It's a way to emphasize or contrast the person being spoken to. The KJV Bible translates it as 'thou'.
Amplified meaning
together, in harmony
Tyndale gloss
you
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

σύ is the second-person singular pronoun meaning 'you' in Greek. It has various forms: genitive σοῦ, dative σοί, and accusative σέ. The word can be used for emphasis or contrast, particularly in the New Testament, as seen in verses like Matthew 26:64. It also appears in various dialects and has enclitic forms.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

σύ,

pron. of 2nd pers.,

thou, you, gen., σοῦ, dat., σοί, acc., σέ, pl., ὑμεῖς, -ῶν, -ῖν, -ᾶς (enclitic in oblique cases sing., except after prep. (BL, §48, 3), though πρὸς σέ occurs in Mt 25:39). Nom. for emphasis or contrast: Jo 1:30, 42 4:10 5:33, 39, 44, Ac 4:7, Eph 5:32; so also perhaps σὺ εἶπας, Mt 26:64, al. (M, Pr., 86); before voc., Mt 2:6, Lk 1:76, Jo 17:5, al.; sometimes without emphasis (M, Pr., 85f.), as also

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σύ, pron. of the second pers. (Dor. and Aeol. τύ, Boeot. Tov), gen. σοῦ, dat. σοί, ace. σέ (which oblique cases are enclitic, unless a preposition precede; yet πρός σε is written [uniformly in Ree. (exe. Mt. xxvi. 18), in Grsb. (exe. Jn. xxi. 22, 23), in Treg. (exc. Mt. xxvi. 18; Acts xxiii. 30), in Lchm. (exe. Mt. xxvi.18; Jn. xvii. 11, 13; xxi. 22, 23; Acts xxiii. 30), in Tdf. (exe. Mt. xxvi. 18; Lk. i. 19; Jn. xvii. 11, 13; Jn. xxi. 22; Acts xxiii. 18, 30; 1 Tim. iii. 14; Tit. iii. 12); also by WH in Mt. xxv. 39], see ἐγώ, 2; Lipsius, Grammat. Untersuch. p. 62 sq. [W. §6, 3; B. 31 (27)]); plur. ὑμεῖς, εἴς. : Lat. tu, ete., vos, ete.; thou, ete., ye,ete. The nominatives ov and ὑμεῖς are expressed for emphasis — before a vocative, as σὺ Βηθλεέμ, Mt. ii. 6; σὺ παιδίον (Leian. dial. deor. 2, 1), Lk. i. 76; add, Jn. xvii. 5; Acts i. 24; 1 Tim. vi. 11, etc.; ὑμεῖς of Φαρισαῖοι, Lk. xi. 39…

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Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

σύ (su) — you.

σύ [ῠ],

thou: pronoun of the second person:—Epic dialect nominative τύνη [ῡ] [Refs 8th c.BC+] (Laconian dialect τούνη [Refs 5th c.AD+]; Aeolic dialect σύ [Refs 7th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τύ [ῠ] [Refs 5th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect τού [short syllable] [Refs 6th c.BC+] (also τούν [Refs]σύ, [Refs 8th c.BC+]—Gen. σοῦ, [Refs], elsewhere only Attic dialect, [Refs 5th c.BC+]; enclitic σου, [Refs 8th c.BC+] (also in Lyric poetry, [Refs 8th c.BC+] (which also occurs in Lyric poetry, [Refs 7th c.BC+], and as enclitic σευ, [Refs 8th c.BC+], σεο (enclitic) [Refs] σευ (enclitic) [Refs]:—Doric dialect τεῦ, τευ, [Refs 3rd c.BC+]; rarely τέο, [Refs 8th c.BC+]; Boeotian dialect τεῦς [Refs 6th c.BC+]; Doric dialect τεοῦς [Refs 5th c.BC+]; τοι variant in [Refs]; enclitic τεος [Refs 5th c.BC+]; other Doric dialect forms are τίω, τίως, both [Refs 3rd c.BC+]—Dat. σοί, [Refs 8th c.BC+]…

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Strong's Greek Dictionary

σύ

su

the person pronoun of the second person singular; thou:-- thou. See

also 4571, 4671, 4675; and for the plural 5209, 5210, 5213, 5216.

see GREEK for 4675

see GREEK for 4571

see GREEK for 4671

see GREEK for 5209

see GREEK for 5210

see GREEK for 5213

see GREEK for 5216

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

σύ, σοῦ, σοί, σέ

Pers.pr.

you

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

σύ sy 2x

you, gen., σοῦ, dat., σοί, acc., σέ, Mt. 1:20; 2:6

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Pron-2DP — Personal pronoun · second person · dative · plural
dative — to, for, with — the one it is done to or by.
Agrees with anything else marked plural.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

P-2DP Part of Speech: Personal pronoun Person: second Case: Dative Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
78%you
you78% · 2412×you yourselves7% · 221×you yourself5% · 168×your3% · 87×other renderings3% · 96×other renderings3% · 89×

3,073 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 37 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

What it does in the sentencefrom the Nestle 1904 treebank
subject28%object24%adverbial23%indirect object20%predicate5%

Parsing tells you the form; the treebank tells you the job. Counted over all 2,892 occurrences — a word inside a phrase counts towards whatever that phrase is doing.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
λέγωI say, speak
ἀμήνHebrδέbut, on the otheἐγώ
καίand, even, also, nam
ἐγώοὕτωthus, so, in thiμήNeg
ἐν
Article theεἰμίI am, existγίνομαιI come into bein
πρός
ἔρχομαιI come, goἐγώπέμπωI send
δέbut, on the other ha
λέγωI say, speakπαρακαλέωI summon, entreaθέλωI will, wish, de
σύyou2892×
what comes after →
Article the
θεόςGod, a godἐνἁμαρτίαa sin
καίand, even, also, nam
Article theεἰρήνηpeace, peace of οὐNeg
ὅτιthat, since, because
Article theπᾶςall, the whole, οὐNeg
εἰμίI am, exist
Article theκαίand, even, also,ἐν
ἐν
Article theποῖοςIrgΧριστόςanointed, the Me

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceσύ · 2,892× in the New Testament
Matthew Luke John Acts Mark 2 Corinthians 1 Corinthians Romans 1 Thessalonians Revelation Hebrews Colossians

16 inflected forms — one of the commonest words in the New Testament. Full distribution →

Across the New Testament27 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
The company it keepswords that stand beside it more often than chance
The Hebrew behind itwhat the Septuagint translators were rendering

Counted over the 450 Old Testament verses where this Greek word stands: which Hebrew word keeps standing there too. A correspondence of verses rather than a word-by-word alignment, so read the percentage as strength of evidence, not as a claim about any single verse.

Outside the New Testamentthe same word in the Greek of its own century
Josephus Philo of Alexandria The Shepherd of Hermas Ignatius of Antioch Clement of Rome
Philo of AlexandriaAllegorical Interpretation of Genesis 1.48c. AD 40

„οὐ φυτεύσεις σεαυτῷ ἄλσος, πᾶν ξύλον παρὰ τὸ θυσιαστήριον κυρίου τοῦ θεοῦ σου οὐ ποιήσεις σεαυτῷ“ (Deuter.

JosephusAntiquities of the Jews 1.101c. AD 75–95

παύσομαι δὲ τοῦ λοιποῦ μετὰ τοσαύτης ὀργῆς τὰς τιμωρίας ἐπὶ τοῖς ἀδικήμασιν εἰσπραττόμενος καὶ πολὺ μᾶλλον σοῦ παρακαλοῦντος.

The Epistle of BarnabasThe Epistle of Barnabas 1.2c. AD 100

Μεγάλων μὲν ὄντων καὶ πλουσίων τῶν τοῦ θεοῦ δικαιωμάτων εἰς ὑμᾶς, ὑπέρ τι καὶ καθ̓ ὑπερβολὴν ὑπερευφραίνομαι ἐπὶ τοῖς μακαρίοις καὶ ἐνδόξοις ὑμῶν πνεύμασιν: οὕτως ἔμφυτον τῆς δωρεᾶς πνευματικῆς χάριν εἰλήφατε.

In the everyday Greek (the secular world, not the church)letters, leases, receipts — nobody writing one is trying to sound biblical
2nd c. AD 3rd c. AD 6th c. AD 4th c. AD 3rd c. BC
P.Grenf. 1 35Ptolemais - Akko (Syrien)103 BC

τοῦ ἀποδοθῆι τὸν ἐπεσταλμένον ἡμῖν κατὰ μῆνα πυρὸν τοῖς παρʼ ἡμῶν. διʼ ἄλλων γεγράφαμεν ὑμῖν ὑπὲρ ὧν βουλόμεθα μηδεμιᾶς προσφωνήσεως προσπεπτωκυίας. ἑαυτῶν δὲ ἐπιμελόμενοι ἵνʼ ὑγιαίνητε, — ἔσμεν ἐν

P.Grenf. 1 32Pelusion103 BC

η Φατρήους καὶ … χαίρειν καὶ ἐρρωμένοις διευτυχεῖν. ἐρρώμεθα δὲ καὶ αὐτοὶ ὑμῶν τὴν ἀρίστην μνείαν ποιούμενοι παρὰ τοῖς ἐν Πηλουσίωι θεοῖς. καλῶς ποιήσεις διαλύσας Ἁρκοννῆσιν καὶ

P.Grenf. 1 41Thebais3 BC

παρὰ Πετεύριος διεθέντος μου ὑπάρξει σοι εἰς στέφανον χαλκοῦ τάλαντα δεκάπεντε, τάλαντα ιε. εὐτύχει .

Already satiated you are, already you have been enriched, apart from us you reigned; and I wish that really you did reign, so that also we ourselves you may reign with.
συμβασιλεύσωμεν.sumbasileuō may reign with. G4821 Verb · aorist · active · subjunctive · first person · plural
2× in the NT scale is logarithmic — ὁ, the commonest word, appears 19,867×
commoner in 1 Corinthians than anywhere else in the New Testament
In plain English
Meaning
To reign with someone means to share power and authority, as in John 18:14. It is about being a co-ruler and working together.
Amplified meaning
co-rulers, sharing power
Tyndale gloss
to reign with
Greek lexiconskeyed to Strong's numbers
Layman’s summary of all Lexicon entries.generated

The Greek word συμβασιλεύω (i.e., *sumbasileuō*) is built from the prefix σύν (together) and βασιλεύω (to reign). It primarily means to reign together with someone or to be co-regent. In the New Testament, it appears in contexts that suggest sharing in honor or authority, notably in 1 Corinthians 4:8 and 2 Timothy 2:12.

Abbott-Smith, Manual Greek Lexicon of the NT

συμ-βουλεύω

[in LXX chiefly for יעץ ;]

to advise, counsel: c. dat. pers., Jo 18:14; id. seq. inf., Re 3:18.

Mid., to take counsel, consult: seq. ἵνα, Mt 26:4 ("reciprocal middle," v. M, Pr., 157); c. inf., Ac 9:23.†

Thayer's Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament from a scan

συμ-βασιλεύω [Τ᾿ συν- so now WH (in exx. as below); ef. σύν, II. fin.) : fut. cupBaowevow; 1 aor. συνεβασίλευσα ; to reign together: τινί, with one; prop., Polyb. 30, 2, 4; Leian. dial. deor. 16, 2; often in Plut. [also in Dion. Hal., Strabo]; metaph. to possess supreme honor, liberty, blessedness, with one in the kingdom of God: 1 Co. iv. 8 [ef. W.41b.5 N. 2; Β. 8189, 10]; 2 Tim. ii. 12; see βασιλεύω.

Moulton & Milligan, Vocabulary of the Greek Testament from a scan

συμβουλεύω, “advise,” “counsel,” (1) act.: cf. BGU IV. 10978 (Claudius/Nero) (as amended Berichtigungen, p- 97) οὐ καλῶς érol[i]noas συνβουλεύσας αὐτῶι στρατεύσασθαι, P Oxy XIV. 1762! (ii/iii a.p.) Uva αὐτῷ περὶ τούτων συμβου[λε]ύσῃς : cf. the pass. in 76. I. 118% (late iii/a.p.) συμβουλευθέντες ὑπὸ τοῦ ἀξιολογωτάτου ᾿Αμμωνίωνος. (2) mid. : P Petr II. 13 (6)13 (B.c. 258-3) (as amended III. p- 110) ὡς ἂν o[u]vBovdevoapévwr φα[ζίνηται, “as it shall appear to you after you have considered the matter,” OGTS 4417® (B.c. 81) Λεύκιος. [ . Σύλλας ᾿Επαφρόδιτος δικτ]άτωρ συγκλήτωι συ[νεβουλεύσατο πρὸ ἡμερῶν ἕξ], and see Herwerden Zex. s.v.

Liddell-Scott-Jones, full edition

συμβασιλεύω (sumbasileuō) — to reign with.

συμβᾰσῐλ-εύω,

rule, reign together with, τινι [NT+2nd c.BC+]

Strong's Greek Dictionary

συμβασιλεύω

sumbasileuo

from 4862 and 936; to be co-regent (figuratively):--reign with.

see GREEK for 4862

see GREEK for 936

Dodson Greek-English Lexicon

συμβασιλεύω

v.

I reign together with

Mounce Concise Greek-English Dictionary

συμβασιλεύω symbasileuō 2x

to reign with; met. to enjoy honor with, 1 Cor. 4:8; 2 Tim. 2:12*

Intermediate Liddell-Scott-Jones

συμβασιλεύω fut. σω to rule or reign together with, τινί Luc.

Morphologythe parsing behind the code
Berean parsing
Verb-AAS-1P — Verb · aorist · active · subjunctive · first person · plural
aorist active subjunctive — a completed action, viewed as a whole.
Robinson's Morphological Analysis Codes

V-AAS-1P Part of Speech: Verb Tense: Aorist Voice: Active Mood: Subjunctive Person: first Number: Plural

Into Englishhow translators actually render it
50%may reign with
may reign with50% · 1×we will reign with50% · 1×

2 occurrences in the New Testament, rendered 2 different ways. The commonest English word for it is not its meaning — it is one translator's decision, repeated.

The phrases it lives inwhat stands either side of it, across the New Testament
← what comes before
σύ
ἐγώ
καίand, even, also, nam
ὑπομένωI remain behind,
συμβασιλεύωmay reign with.
what comes after →
εἰCond
ἀρνέομαιI deny, repudiat

branches are dictionary forms, so endings do not split one phrase into five; the number on a branch is how many times the New Testament takes that path

Concordanceσυμβασιλεύω · 2× in the New Testament
1 Corinthians 2 Timothy
Across the New Testament2 of 27 books
MtMkLkJnAcRo1Co2CoGaEphPhpCol1Th2Th1Ti2TiTitPhmHebJas1Pe2Pe1Jn2Jn3JnJudRev
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