1 Corinthians 12:2

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Ye know that when ye were Gentiles [ye were] led away unto those dumb idols, howsoever {G302} ye might led.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἴδατε ὅτι Ἔθνη ἦτε, πρὸς τὰ εἴδωλα τὰ ἄφωνα, ὡς ἂν ἤγεσθε ἀπαγόμενοι.

Transliteration

You oidate that Ethnē you ēte, pros the eidōla the aphōna, hōs an you were ēgesthe apagomenoi.

Grammar Details

*oidate*: perfect, indicative, active, 2nd person, plural - you know
*Ethnē*: nominative, neuter, plural - Gentiles/nations/pagans
*ēte*: imperfect, indicative, active, 2nd person, plural - you were
*pros*: preposition + accusative - toward/to
*eidōla*: accusative, neuter, plural - idols/images
*aphōna*: accusative, neuter, plural - voiceless/mute/dumb
*hōs*: adverb - as/like/when
*an*: particle - potential/contingent
*ēgesthe*: imperfect, indicative, passive, 2nd person, plural - you were led
*apagomenoi*: present, participle, passive, nominative, masculine, plural - being led away

Word Meanings

*Ethnē*: Gentiles/nations/pagans/non-Jews
*eidōla*: idols/images/false gods
*aphōna*: voiceless/mute/unable to speak
*ēgesthe apagomenoi*: being led away/carried away/taken away

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Ps 115:5 : 5 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;
1 Thess 1:9 : 9 For they themselves report concerning us what manner of entering in we had unto you; and how ye turned unto God from idols, to serve a living and true God,
1 Pet 4:3 : 3 For the time past {G979} may suffice {G2254} to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
Eph 2:11-12 : 11 Wherefore remember, that once ye, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that which is called Circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands; 12 that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.
Hab 2:18-19 : 18 What profiteth the graven image, that the maker thereof hath graven it; the molten image, even the teacher of lies, that he that fashioneth its form trusteth therein, to make dumb idols? 19 Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise! Shall this teach? Behold, it is overlaid with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.
1 Cor 6:11 : 11 And such were some of you: but ye were washed, but ye were sanctified, but ye were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, and in the Spirit of our God.
Jer 10:5 : 5 They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.
Eph 4:17-18 : 17 This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye no longer walk as the {G3062} Gentiles also walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 being darkened in their understanding, alienated from the life of God, because of the ignorance that is in them, because of the hardening of their heart;
Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
Gal 4:8 : 8 Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:
Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
Ps 115:7 : 7 They have hands, but they handle not; Feet have they, but they walk not; Neither speak they through their throat.
Ps 135:16 : 16 They have mouths, but they speak not; Eyes have they, but they see not;
Isa 46:7 : 7 They bear it upon the shoulder, they carry it, and set it in its place, and it standeth, from its place shall it not remove: yea, one may cry unto it, yet can it not answer, nor save him out of his trouble.

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