Galatians 5:15

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ δὲ ἀλλήλους δάκνετε καὶ κατεσθίετε, βλέπετε μὴ ὑπό ἀλλήλων ἀναλωθῆτε.

Transliteration

But if allēlous daknete kai katesthiete, blepete mē hypo allēlōn analōthēte.

Grammar Details

*allēlous*: accusative, masculine, plural - one another/each other
*daknete*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - bite/wound
*kai*: conjunction - and
*katesthiete*: present, active, indicative, 2nd person plural - devour/consume
*blepete*: present, active, imperative, 2nd person plural - watch out/see/beware
*mē*: negative particle with subjunctive - lest/that not
*hypo*: preposition with genitive - by/under
*allēlōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of one another/each other
*analōthēte*: aorist, passive, subjunctive, 2nd person plural - be consumed/destroyed

Word Meanings

*allēlous*: one another/each other/mutually
*daknete*: bite/wound/hurt
*katesthiete*: devour/consume/eat up
*blepete*: watch out/see/beware/take care
*hypo*: by/under/through
*analōthēte*: be consumed/destroyed/used up

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Cor 3:3 : 3 for ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you jealousy and strife, are ye not carnal, and do ye not walk after the manner of men?
Gal 5:26 : 26 Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.
Jas 3:14-4:3 : 14 But if ye have bitter jealousy and faction in your heart, glory not and lie not against the truth. 15 This wisdom is not [a wisdom] that cometh down from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish. 16 For where jealousy and faction are, there is confusion and every vile deed. 17 But the wisdom that is from above is first {G3303} pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without variance, {G2532} without hypocrisy. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is sown in peace for them that make peace. 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot {G3756} obtain: ye fight and war; {G1161} ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
Phil 3:2 : 2 Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:
Isa 9:20-21 : 20 And one shall snatch on the right hand, and be hungry; and he shall eat on the left hand, and they shall not be satisfied: they shall eat every man the flesh of his own arm: 21 Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isa 11:5-9 : 5 And righteousness shall be the girdle of his waist, and faithfulness the girdle of his loins. 6 And the wolf shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8 And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the adder's den. 9 They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain; for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.
Isa 11:13 : 13 The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.
1 Cor 6:6-8 : 6 but brother goeth to law with brother, and that before unbelievers? 7 Nay, already it is altogether {G3303} a defect in you, that ye have lawsuits one with another. Why {G91} not rather take wrong? why {G650} not rather be defrauded? 8 Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that [your] brethren.
2 Cor 11:20 : 20 For ye bear with a man, if he bringeth you into bondage, if he devoureth you, if he taketh you [captive], if he exalteth himself, if he smiteth you on the face.
2 Cor 12:20 : 20 For I fear, lest by any means, when I come, I should find you not such as I would, and should myself be found of you such as ye would not; lest by any means [there should be] strife, jealousy, wraths, factions, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults;
2 Sam 2:26-27 : 26 Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren? 27 And Joab said, As God liveth, if thou hadst not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed every one his brother.

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