1 Corinthians 11:28

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But let a man prove himself, and so let him eat of the bread, and drink of the cup.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Δοκιμαζέτω δὲ ἄνθρωπος ἑαυτόν, καὶ οὕτως ἐκ τοῦ ἄρτου ἐσθιέτω, καὶ ἐκ τοῦ ποτηρίου πινέτω.

Transliteration

Dokimazetō de anthrōpos heauton, and houtōs from the artou esthietō, and from the potēriou pinetō.

Grammar Details

*Dokimazetō*: present imperative, 3rd person singular - let him examine, let him test
*de*: conjunction - but, and, now
*anthrōpos*: nominative, masculine, singular - man, person, human
*heauton*: accusative, masculine, reflexive pronoun - himself
*houtōs*: adverb - thus, in this manner, so
*artou*: genitive, masculine, singular - of bread
*esthietō*: present imperative, 3rd person singular - let him eat
*potēriou*: genitive, neuter, singular - of the cup
*pinetō*: present imperative, 3rd person singular - let him drink

Word Meanings

*Dokimazetō*: examine, test, scrutinize, prove
*de*: but, and, now (transitional particle)
*anthrōpos*: human being, person, man (generic)
*heauton*: himself, oneself
*houtōs*: thus, in this way, so, consequently
*artou*: bread, loaf, food
*esthietō*: let him eat, he must eat
*potēriou*: cup, drinking vessel
*pinetō*: let him drink, he must drink

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 13:5 : 5 Try your own selves, whether ye are in the faith; prove your own selves. Or know ye not as to your own selves, that Jesus Christ is in you? unless indeed ye be {G5100} reprobate.
Gal 6:4 : 4 But let each man prove his own work, and then shall he have his glorying in regard of himself alone, and not of his neighbor.
Ps 26:2-7 : 2 Examine me, O Jehovah, and prove me; Try my heart and my mind. 3 For thy lovingkindness is before mine eyes: and I have walked in thy truth. 4 I have not sat with men of falsehood; Neither will I go in with dissemblers. 5 I hate the assembly of evil-doers, And will not sit with the wicked. 6 I will wash my hands in innocency: So will I compass thine altar, O Jehovah; 7 That I may make the voice of thanksgiving to be heard, And tell of all thy wondrous works.
Lam 3:40 : 40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.
Hag 1:5 : 5 Now therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Hag 1:7 : 7 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider your ways.
Zech 7:5-7 : 5 Speak unto all the people of the land, and to the priests, saying, When ye fasted and mourned in the fifth and in the seventh [month], even these seventy years, did ye at all fast unto me, even to me? 6 And when ye eat, and when ye drink, do not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves? 7 [ Should ye] not [hear] the words which Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and in prosperity, and the cities thereof round about her, and the South and the lowland were inhabited?
Matt 5:23-24 : 23 If therefore thou art offering thy gift at the altar, and there rememberest that thy brother hath aught against thee, 24 leave there thy gift before the altar, and go thy way, first be reconciled to thy brother, and then come and offer thy gift.
1 Cor 11:31 : 31 But if we discerned ourselves, we should not {G302} be judged.
1 John 3:20-21 : 20 because if our heart {G3754} condemn us, God is greater than our heart, and knoweth all things. 21 Beloved, if our heart condemn us not, we have boldness toward God;
Num 9:10-13 : 10 Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah. 11 In the second month on the fourteenth day at even they shall keep it; they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs: 12 they shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof: according to all the statute of the passover they shall keep it. 13 But the man that is clean, and is not on a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, that soul shall be cut off from his people; because he offered not the oblation of Jehovah in its appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

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