1 Peter 5:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be sober, be watchful: {G3754} your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Νήψατε, γρηγορήσατε· ὅτι ὁ ἀντίδικος ὑμῶν διάβολος, ὡς λέων ὠρυόμενος, περιπατεῖ, ζητῶν τινα καταπίῃ:

Transliteration

Nēpsate, grēgorēsate; because the antidikos of you diabolos, as leōn ōryomenos, peripatei, zētōn someone he might katapiē:

Grammar Details

• *Nēpsate*: aorist, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - be sober/self-controlled
• *grēgorēsate*: aorist, imperative, active, 2nd person plural - be vigilant/watchful
• *antidikos*: nominative, masculine, singular - adversary/opponent
• *diabolos*: nominative, masculine, singular - devil/accuser
• *leōn*: nominative, masculine, singular - lion
• *ōryomenos*: present participle, middle, nominative, masculine, singular - roaring
• *peripatei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - walks about
• *zētōn*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - seeking
• *katapiē*: aorist, subjunctive, active, 3rd person singular - may devour/swallow

Word Meanings

• *Nēpsate*: be sober/self-controlled/restrained/clear-minded
• *grēgorēsate*: be vigilant/watchful/alert
• *antidikos*: adversary/opponent/enemy/legal opponent
• *diabolos*: devil/slanderer/accuser
• *ōryomenos*: roaring/growling
• *peripatei*: walks around/prowls/goes about
• *zētōn*: seeking/looking for/searching
• *katapiē*: may devour/swallow/consume

Referenced Verses

• Eph 6:11 : 11 Put on the whole armor of God, that ye may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil.
• Jas 4:7 : 7 Be subject therefore unto God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
• 1 Pet 1:13 : 13 Wherefore girding up the loins of your mind, be sober and set your hope perfectly on the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;
• 1 John 3:8-9 : 8 he that doeth sin is of the devil; for the devil sinneth from the beginning. To this end was the Son of God manifested, that he might destroy the works of the devil. 9 Whosoever is begotten of God doeth no {G4160} sin, because his seed abideth in him: and he cannot {G3756} sin, because he is begotten of God. 10 In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.
• 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.
• Job 2:2 : 2 And Jehovah said unto Satan, From whence comest thou? And Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
• Eph 4:27 : 27 neither give place to the devil.
• Rev 12:9 : 9 And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 But watch ye at every season, making supplication, that ye may prevail to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
• Luke 22:31 : 31 {G1161} {G2962} {G2036} Simon, Simon, behold, Satan asked to have you, that he might sift you as wheat:
• John 8:44 : 44 Ye are of [your] father the devil, and the lusts of your father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and standeth not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
• 1 Pet 4:7 : 7 But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:
• 2 Tim 4:17 : 17 But the Lord stood by me, and strengthened me; that through me the message might me fully proclaimed, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where are also the beast and the false prophet; and they shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.
• Rev 12:12 : 12 Therefore {G5124} rejoice, O heavens, and ye that dwell in them. Woe for the {G2730} earth and for the sea: because the devil is gone down unto you, having great wrath, knowing that he hath but a short time.
• Rom 13:11-13 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is {G2257} salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed. 12 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.
• Zech 3:1 : 1 And he showed me Joshua the high priest standing before the angel of Jehovah, and Satan standing at his right hand to be his adversary.
• Matt 24:42 : 42 Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.
• Joel 3:16 : 16 And Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the heavens and the earth shall shake: but Jehovah will be a refuge unto his people, and a stronghold to the children of Israel.
• Matt 13:39 : 39 and the enemy that sowed them is the devil: and the harvest is the end of the world; and the reapers are angels.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
• Rev 20:2 : 2 And he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, which is the Devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,
• Titus 2:6 : 6 the younger men likewise exhort to be sober-minded:
• Titus 2:12 : 12 instructing us, to the intent that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live soberly and righteously and godly in this present world;
• Judg 14:5 : 5 Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
• Ps 104:21 : 21 The young lions roar after their prey, And seek their food from God.
• Ps 109:6 : 6 Set thou a wicked man over him; And let an adversary stand at his right hand.
• Isa 5:29-30 : 29 their roaring shall be like a lioness, they shall roar like young lions; yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and carry it away safe, and there shall be none to deliver. 30 And they shall roar against them in that day like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold, darkness and distress; and the light is darkened in the clouds thereof.
• Amos 3:8 : 8 The lion hath roared; who will not fear? The Lord Jehovah hath spoken; who can but prophesy?
• Matt 4:11 : 11 Then the devil leaveth him; and behold, angels came and ministered unto him.
• 1 Tim 2:9 : 9 In like manner, {G2532} that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefastness and sobriety; not with braided hair, and gold or pearls or costly raiment;
• 1 Tim 2:15 : 15 but she shall be saved through her child-bearing, if they continue in faith and love and sanctification with sobriety.
• Zech 11:3 : 3 A voice of the wailing of the shepherds! for their glory is destroyed: a voice of the roaring of young lions! for the pride of the Jordan is laid waste.
• Matt 4:1 : 1 Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.
• Matt 25:41 : 41 Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:
• Luke 12:45-46 : 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; 46 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, {G4328} and in an hour when he {G1097} knoweth not, and shall cut him asunder, and appoint {G5087} his portion with the unfaithful.
• Isa 14:12-13 : 12 How art thou fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, that didst lay low the nations! 13 And thou saidst in thy heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God; and I will sit upon the mount of congregation, in the uttermost parts of the north;
• Isa 50:8 : 8 He is near that justifieth me; who will contend with me? let us stand up together: who is mine adversary? let him come near to me.
• Jer 2:15 : 15 The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.
• Jer 51:38 : 38 They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.
• Ezek 19:7 : 7 And he knew their palaces, and laid waste their cities; and the land was desolate, and the fulness thereof, because of the noise of his roaring.
• Ezek 22:25 : 25 There is a conspiracy of her prophets in the midst thereof, like a roaring lion ravening the prey: they have devoured souls; they take treasure and precious things; they have made her widows many in the midst thereof.
• Dan 6:24 : 24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men that had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces, before they came to the bottom of the den.
• Hos 11:10 : 10 They shall walk after Jehovah, who will roar like a lion; for he will roar, and the children shall come trembling from the west.
• Hos 13:8 : 8 I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart; and there will I devour them like a lioness; the wild beast shall tear them.
• Prov 19:12 : 12 The king's wrath is as the roaring of a lion; But his favor is as dew upon the grass.
• Prov 20:2 : 2 The terror of a king is as the roaring of a lion: He that provoketh him to anger sinneth [against] his own life.
• Esth 7:6 : 6 And Esther said, An adversary and an enemy, even this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.
• Job 1:6-7 : 6 Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them. 7 And Jehovah said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered Jehovah, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
• Amos 1:2 : 2 And he said, Jehovah will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the pastures of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.
• Amos 3:4 : 4 Will a lion roar in the forest, when he hath no prey? will a young lion cry out of his den, if he have taken nothing?
• 1 Tim 3:11 : 11 Women in like manner [must be] grave, not slanderers, temperate, faithful in all things.
• Titus 1:8 : 8 but given to hospitality, a lover of good, sober-minded, just, holy, self-controlled;
• Titus 2:2 : 2 that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:
• Titus 2:4 : 4 that they may train None the young women {G1511} {G4994} to love their husbands, to love their children,
• Matt 24:48-50 : 48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth; 49 and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; 50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not,
• 1 Tim 3:2 : 2 The bishop therefore must be without reproach, the husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, orderly, given to hospitality, apt to teach;