Matthew 25:5

American Standard Version (1901)

Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Χρονίζοντος δὲ τοῦ νυμφίου, ἐνύσταξαν πᾶσαι καὶ ἐκάθευδον.

Transliteration

Chronizontos de the nymphiou, enystaxan pasai and ekatheudōn.

Grammar Details

• *chronizontos*: present active participle, genitive masculine singular - delaying
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *nymphiou*: genitive masculine singular - of bridegroom
• *enystaxan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - nodded off/became drowsy
• *pasai*: nominative feminine plural - all
• *ekatheudōn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural - were sleeping

Word Meanings

• *chronizontos*: delaying/tarrying/being delayed
• *de*: but/and/now
• *nymphiou*: bridegroom/newly married man
• *enystaxan*: became drowsy/nodded off/began to sleep
• *pasai*: all/every one of them
• *ekatheudōn*: were sleeping/were asleep [continuous state]

Referenced Verses

• Matt 24:48 : 48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth;
• Matt 25:19 : 19 Now after a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and maketh a reckoning with them.
• Matt 26:40 : 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
• Matt 26:43 : 43 And he came again and found them sleeping, for their eyes were heavy.
• Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour? 38 Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.
• Luke 12:45 : 45 But if that servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and the maidservants, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• Luke 18:8 : 8 I say unto you, that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless, when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
• Luke 20:9 : 9 And he began to speak unto the people this parable: A man planted a vineyard, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country for a long time.
• Rom 13:11 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
• 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, since we are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, having done the will of God, ye may receive the promise. 37 For yet a very little while, He that cometh shall come, and shall not tarry.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be watchful: your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,
• 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 and saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God; 6 by which means the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 but the heavens that now are, and the earth, by the same word have been stored up for fire, being reserved against the day of judgment and destruction of ungodly men. 8 But forget not this one thing, beloved, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some count slackness; but is longsuffering to you-ward, not wishing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Rev 2:25 : 25 Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I come.
• Song 3:1 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Song 5:2 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
• Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god; and they cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it unto them. But Jonah was gone down into the innermost parts of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
• Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for the appointed time, and it hasteth toward the end, and shall not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not delay.