1 Corinthians 11:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for in your eating each one taketh before [other] his own supper; and one {G3303} is hungry, and another is drunken.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἕκαστος γὰρ τὸ ἴδιον δεῖπνον προλαμβάνει ἐν τῷ φαγεῖν: καὶ ὃς μὲν πεινᾷ, ὃς δὲ μεθύει.

Transliteration

Each gar the own deipnon prolambanei in the phagein: and who men peina, who de methyei.

Grammar Details

Ἕκαστος: adjective, nominative, masculine, singular - each/every
*gar*: postpositive conjunction - for/because
τὸ ἴδιον: accusative, neuter, singular - own/personal
*deipnon*: accusative, neuter, singular - supper/meal
*prolambanei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - takes ahead/takes before others
ἐν: preposition with dative - in
*phagein*: aorist active infinitive - to eat
καὶ: conjunction - and
ὃς: relative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - who
*men*: postpositive particle - on the one hand
*peina*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - hungers
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
*methyei*: present active indicative, 3rd person singular - gets drunk

Word Meanings

*deipnon*: supper/meal/dinner
*prolambanei*: takes ahead/takes before others/eats before others
*phagein*: to eat/to consume
*peina*: hungers/is hungry
*methyei*: gets drunk/is drunk

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Referenced Verses

Jude 1:12 : 12 These are they who are hidden rocks in your love-feasts when they feast with you, shepherds that without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn leaves without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots;
2 Pet 2:13 : 13 suffering wrong as the hire of wrong-doing; [men] that count it pleasure to revel in the day-time, spots and blemishes, revelling in their deceivings while they feast with you;
1 Cor 10:16-18 : 16 The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not a communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not a communion of the body of Christ? 17 seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we are all partake of the one bread. 18 Behold Israel after the flesh: have not they that eat the sacrifices communion with the altar?
1 Cor 11:23-25 : 23 For I received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you, that the Lord Jesus in the night in which he was betrayed took bread; 24 and when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, {G2983} {G5315} This is my body, which is {G2806} for you: this do in remembrance of me. 25 In like manner also the cup, after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood: this do, {G4160} as often as ye drink {G302} [it], in remembrance of me.

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