1 Timothy 5:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

for already some are turned aside after Satan.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἤδη γάρ τινες ἐξετράπησαν ὀπίσω τοῦ Σατανᾶ.

Transliteration

Ēdē gar tines exetrapēsan opisō tou Satana.

Grammar Details

• *Ēdē*: adverb - already
• *gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
• *tines*: nominative, feminine, plural - some
• *exetrapēsan*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person plural - they have turned aside
• *opisō*: preposition with genitive - after/behind
• *tou*: genitive, masculine, singular article - the
• *Satana*: genitive, masculine, singular - Satan

Word Meanings

• *exetrapēsan*: have turned aside/have deviated/have been turned away
• *opisō*: after/to follow/behind [indicates following or turning to follow]

Referenced Verses

• 2 Pet 2:2 : 2 And many shall follow their lascivious doings; by reason of whom the way of the truth shall be evil spoken of.
• Jude 1:4-5 : 4 For there are certain men crept in privily, [even] they who were of old written of beforehand unto this condemnation, ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into lasciviousness, and denying our only Master {G2316} and {G2257} Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I desire to put you in remembrance, though ye know all things once for all, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.
• 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.
• 2 Pet 2:20-22 : 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilements of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein and overcome, the last state is become worse with them than the first. 21 For it were better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered unto them. 22 {G1161} It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.
• 2 Pet 3:16 : 16 as also in all [his] epistles, speaking in them of these things; wherein {G1722} are some things hard to be understood, which the ignorant and unstedfast wrest, as [they do] also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.
• Matt 4:10 : 10 Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.
• Phil 3:18-19 : 18 For many walk, of whom I told you often, and now tell you even weeping, [that they are] the enemies of the cross of Christ: 19 whose end is perdition, whose god is the belly, and [whose] glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.
• 1 Tim 1:20 : 20 of whom is Hymenaeus and Alexander; whom I delivered unto Satan, that they might be taught not to blaspheme.
• 2 Tim 1:15 : 15 This thou knowest, that all that are in Asia turned away from me; of whom are Phygelus and Hermogenes.
• 2 Tim 2:18 : 18 men who concerning the truth have erred, saying that the resurrection is past already, and overthrow the faith of some.
• 2 Tim 4:10 : 10 for Demas forsook me, having loved this present world, and went to Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia.
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they all are not of us.