Matthew 22:13

American Standard Version (1901)

Then the king said to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and cast him out into the outer darkness; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τότε εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῖς διακόνοις, Δήσαντες αὐτοῦ πόδας καὶ χεῖρας, ἄρατε αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐκβάλετε εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον· ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων.

Transliteration

Then eipen the basileus to the diakonois, Dēsantes of him podas and cheiras, arate him, and ekbalete into the skotos the exōteron; there estai the klauthmos and the brygmos of the odontōn.

Grammar Details

• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *basileus*: nominative, masculine, singular - king
• *diakonois*: dative, masculine, plural - servants/attendants/ministers
• *Dēsantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having bound
• *podas*: accusative, masculine, plural - feet
• *cheiras*: accusative, feminine, plural - hands
• *arate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - take/lift up
• *ekbalete*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - throw out/cast out
• *skotos*: accusative, neuter, singular - darkness
• *exōteron*: accusative, neuter, singular, comparative - outer/outside
• *estai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will be
• *klauthmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - weeping/wailing
• *brygmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - grinding/gnashing
• *odontōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of teeth

Word Meanings

• *diakonois*: servants/attendants/ministers
• *Dēsantes*: having bound/tied/restrained
• *arate*: take/lift up/remove
• *ekbalete*: throw out/cast out/expel
• *skotos*: darkness/obscurity
• *exōteron*: outer/outside/external
• *klauthmos*: weeping/wailing/crying
• *brygmos*: grinding/gnashing/grating

Referenced Verses

• Matt 8:12 : 12 but the sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 25:30 : 30 And cast ye out the unprofitable servant into the outer darkness: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 13:28 : 28 There shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and yourselves cast forth without.
• Matt 13:42 : 42 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 13:50 : 50 and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 24:51 : 51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 12:29 : 29 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong [man], and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong [man] ? and then he will spoil his house.
• Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of the harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather up first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them; but gather the wheat into my barn.
• Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, And gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
• Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; He shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: The desire of the wicked shall perish.
• Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake, awake, put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
• Dan 3:20 : 20 And he commanded certain mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, [and] to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
• John 21:18 : 18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
• Acts 7:54 : 54 Now when they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
• Acts 21:11 : 11 And coming to us, and taking Paul's girdle, he bound his own feet and hands, and said, Thus saith the Holy Spirit, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
• 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 who shall suffer punishment, [even] eternal destruction from the face of the Lord and from the glory of his might,
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God spared not angels when they sinned, but cast them down to hell, and committed them to pits of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are springs without water, and mists driven by a storm; for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved.
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And angels that kept not their own principality, but left their proper habitation, he hath kept in everlasting bonds under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Jude 1:13 : 13 Wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness hath been reserved for ever.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb's book of life.