1 Corinthians 4:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Even unto this present hour we both hunger, and thirst, and are naked, and are buffeted, and have no certain dwelling-place;

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄχρι τῆς ἄρτι ὥρας καὶ πεινῶμεν, καὶ διψῶμεν, καὶ γυμνητεύομεν, καὶ κολαφιζόμεθα, καὶ ἀστατοῦμεν·

Transliteration

Achri tēs arti hōras also peinōmen, and dipsōmen, and gymnēteuomen, and kolaphizometha, and astatoumen;

Grammar Details

*Achri*: preposition - until/to
*tēs arti hōras*: article + adverb + genitive, feminine, singular - the present hour
*kai*: conjunction - also/both/and
*peinōmen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we hunger
*dipsōmen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we thirst
*gymnēteuomen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we are poorly clothed
*kolaphizometha*: present indicative, 1st plural, passive - we are buffeted/beaten
*astatoumen*: present indicative, 1st plural, active - we are homeless/unstable

Word Meanings

*Achri tēs arti hōras*: until the present hour/to this very moment
*peinōmen*: hunger/are hungry
*dipsōmen*: thirst/are thirsty
*gymnēteuomen*: are poorly clothed/are naked/lack sufficient clothing
*kolaphizometha*: are buffeted/beaten with fists/treated roughly
*astatoumen*: are homeless/unstable/have no certain dwelling place

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Referenced Verses

Rom 8:35 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?
2 Cor 11:23-27 : 23 Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as one beside himself) I more; in labors more abundantly, in prisons more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in deaths oft. 24 Of the Jews five times received I forty [stripes] save one. 25 Thrice was I beaten with rods, once was I stoned, thrice I suffered shipwreck, a night and a day have I been in the deep; 26 [ in] journeyings often, [in] perils of rivers, [in] perils of robbers, [in] perils from [my] countrymen, [in] perils from the Gentiles, [in] perils in the city, [in] perils in the wilderness, [in] perils in the sea, [in] perils among false brethren; 27 [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.
Phil 4:12 : 12 I know {G2532} how to be abased, and I know also how to abound: in everything and in all things have I learned the secret both to be filled and to be hungry, both to abound and to be in want.
Matt 8:20 : 20 And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven [have] nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.
Acts 14:19 : 19 But there came Jews thither from Antioch and Iconium: and having persuaded the multitudes, {G2532} they stoned Paul, and dragged him out of the city, supposing that he was dead.
Acts 16:23 : 23 And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:
Acts 23:2 : 2 And the high priest Ananias commanded them that stood by him to smite him on the mouth.
1 Cor 9:4 : 4 Have we {G3361} no right to eat and to drink?
2 Cor 4:8 : 8 [ we are] pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;
2 Cor 6:4-5 : 4 but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses, 5 in stripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labors, in watchings, in fastings;
2 Tim 3:11 : 11 persecutions, sufferings. What things befell me at Antioch, at Iconium, at Lystra; what persecutions I endured. And out of them all the Lord delivered me.
Job 22:6 : 6 For thou hast taken pledges of thy brother for nought, And stripped the naked of their clothing.

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