1 Timothy 1:7

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

desiring to be teachers of the law, though they understand neither what they say, nor whereof they confidently affirm.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Θέλοντες εἶναι νομοδιδάσκαλοι· μὴ νοοῦντες μήτε ἃ λέγουσιν, μήτε περὶ τίνων διαβεβαιοῦνται.

Transliteration

Thelontes einai nomodidaskaloi; not noountes neither what they legousin, nor about what things they diabebaiountai.

Grammar Details

• *Thelontes*: present active participle, nominative, plural - wanting/desiring
• *einai*: present active infinitive - to be
• *nomodidaskaloi*: nominative, masculine, plural - predicate nominative
• *mē*: negative particle - not
• *noountes*: present active participle, nominative, plural - understanding/comprehending
• *mēte*: negative conjunction - nor
• *ha*: accusative, plural, relative pronoun - what things (direct object)
• *legousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they say/speak
• *peri*: preposition + genitive - about/concerning
• *tinōn*: genitive, plural, interrogative pronoun - what things
• *diabebaiountai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd person plural - they strongly assert/affirm

Word Meanings

• *Thelontes*: wanting/desiring/wishing
• *einai*: to be/to exist as
• *nomodidaskaloi*: teachers of the law/law instructors
• *noountes*: understanding/comprehending/perceiving
• *legousin*: they say/they speak/they assert
• *diabebaiountai*: they confidently assert/they strongly affirm/they insist

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 2:12 : 12 But these, as creatures without reason, born mere animals to be taken and destroyed, railing in matters whereof they are ignorant, shall in their destroying surely be destroyed,
• Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• 1 Tim 6:4 : 4 he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof {G1537} cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,
• 2 Tim 3:7 : 7 ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.
• Titus 1:10-11 : 10 For there are many unruly men, {G2532} vain talkers and deceivers, specially they of the circumcision, 11 whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre's sake.
• Rom 2:19-21 : 19 and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, 20 a corrector of the foolish, a teacher of babes, having in the law the form of knowledge and of the truth; 21 thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
• Gal 3:2 : 2 This only would I learn from you. Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
• Gal 3:5 : 5 He therefore that supplieth to you the Spirit, and worketh miracles among you, [doeth he it] by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?
• Gal 4:21 : 21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
• Gal 5:3-4 : 3 Yea, I testify again to every man that receiveth circumcision, that he is a debtor to do the whole law. 4 Ye are severed from Christ, ye who would be justified by the law; ye are fallen away from grace.
• Isa 29:13-14 : 13 And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh [unto me], and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught [them]; 14 therefore, behold, I will proceed to do a marvellous work among this people, even a marvellous work and a wonder; and the wisdom of their wise men shall perish, and the understanding of their prudent men shall be hid.
• Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? But, behold, the false pen of the scribes hath wrought falsely. 9 The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?
• Matt 15:14 : 14 Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.
• Matt 23:16-24 : 16 Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor. 17 Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold? 18 And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor. 19 Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? 20 He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon. 21 And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein. 22 And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon. 23 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone. 24 Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
• John 3:9-9 : 9 Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be? 10 Jesus answered and said unto him, Art thou the teacher of Israel, and understandest not these things?
• John 9:40-41 : 40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: {G3767} your sin remaineth.
• Acts 15:1 : 1 And certain men came down from Judaea and taught the brethren, [saying], Except {G3361} ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.