1 Timothy 5:23

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Be no longer a drinker of water, but use a little wine for thy stomach's sake and thine often infirmities.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μηκέτι ὑδροπότει, ἀλλʼ οἴνῳ ὀλίγῳ χρῶ διὰ τὸν στόμαχον σοῦ καὶ τὰς πυκνάς σου ἀσθενείας.

Transliteration

Mēketi hydropoteri, all' oinō oligō chrō dia ton stomachon sou kai tas pyknas sou astheneias.

Grammar Details

• *Mēketi*: adverb - no longer
• *hydropoteri*: present active imperative, 2nd person singular - drink [only] water
• *all'*: contrastive conjunction - but
• *oinō*: dative, masculine, singular - wine
• *oligō*: dative, masculine, singular - little
• *chrō*: present middle imperative, 2nd person singular - use
• *dia*: preposition with accusative - because of/for
• *ton*: accusative, masculine, singular article - the
• *stomachon*: accusative, masculine, singular - stomach
• *sou*: genitive, 2nd person singular - your
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *tas*: accusative, feminine, plural article - the
• *pyknas*: accusative, feminine, plural - frequent
• *astheneias*: accusative, feminine, plural - illnesses/weaknesses

Word Meanings

• *hydropoteri*: drink [only] water/be a water-drinker
• *oligō*: little/small amount
• *chrō*: use/take/consume
• *stomachon*: stomach/digestive system
• *pyknas*: frequent/recurrent/common
• *astheneias*: illnesses/weaknesses/ailments

Referenced Verses

• Ps 104:15 : 15 And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, [And] oil to make his face to shine, And bread that strengtheneth man's heart.
• 1 Tim 3:8 : 8 Deacons in like manner [must be] grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• Titus 1:7 : 7 For the bishop must be blameless, as God's steward; not self-willed, not soon angry, no brawler, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre;
• Titus 2:3 : 3 that aged women likewise be reverent in demeanor, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good;
• Prov 31:4-7 : 4 It is not for kings, O Lemuel, it is not for kings to drink wine; Nor for princes [to say], Where is strong drink? 5 Lest they drink, and forget the law, And pervert the justice [due] to any that is afflicted. 6 Give strong drink unto him that is ready to perish, And wine unto the bitter in soul: 7 Let him drink, and forget his poverty, And remember his misery no more.
• Eph 5:18 : 18 And be not drunken with wine, wherein is riot, but be filled with the Spirit;
• 1 Tim 3:3 : 3 no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;
• Ezek 44:21 : 21 Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.
• 1 Tim 4:4 : 4 For every creature of God is good, and nothing is to be rejected, if it be received with thanksgiving:
• Lev 10:9-9 : 9 Drink no wine nor strong drink, thou, nor thy sons with thee, when ye go into the tent of meeting, that ye die not: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations: 10 and that ye may make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean; 11 and that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which Jehovah hath spoken unto them by Moses.