James 4:13

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἄγε νῦν, οἱ λέγοντες, Σήμερον ἢ αὔριον πορευσόμεθα εἰς τήνδε τήν πόλιν, καὶ ποιήσομεν ἐκεῖ ἐνιαυτὸν ἕνα, καὶ ἐμπορευσόμεθα καὶ κερδήσομεν:

Transliteration

Age nyn, the ones legontes, Today or tomorrow we will poreusometha into this specific polin, and we will poiēsomen ekei eniauton hena, and we will emporeusometha and we will kerdēsomen:

Grammar Details

• *Age*: present active imperative, 2nd singular - come/go
• *nyn*: adverb - now
• *legontes*: present active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - saying/speaking
• *poreusometha*: future middle indicative, 1st plural - will travel/journey/go
• *polin*: accusative, feminine, singular - city
• *poiēsomen*: future active indicative, 1st plural - will do/make/spend
• *ekei*: adverb - there
• *eniauton*: accusative, masculine, singular - year
• *hena*: accusative, masculine, singular - one
• *emporeusometha*: future middle indicative, 1st plural - will trade/do business
• *kerdēsomen*: future active indicative, 1st plural - will gain/profit

Word Meanings

• *Age*: come/go/attention (interjection)
• *nyn*: now/at present
• *legontes*: saying/speaking/telling
• *poreusometha*: will travel/journey/go
• *polin*: city/town
• *poiēsomen*: will do/make/spend
• *ekei*: there/in that place
• *eniauton*: year
• *hena*: one
• *emporeusometha*: will trade/do business/engage in commerce
• *kerdēsomen*: will gain/profit/earn

Referenced Verses

• Prov 27:1 : 1 Boast not thyself of to-morrow; For thou knowest not what a day may bring forth.
• Luke 12:17-20 : 17 and he reasoned within himself, saying, What shall I do, because I have not where to bestow my fruits? 18 And he said, This will I do: I will pull down my barns, and build greater; and there will I bestow all my grain and my goods. 19 And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry. 20 But God said unto him, Thou foolish one, this night is thy soul required of thee; and the things which thou hast prepared, whose shall they be?
• Jas 5:1 : 1 Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.
• Gen 11:3-4 : 3 And they said one to another, Come, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar. 4 And they said, Come, let us build us a city, and a tower, whose top [may reach] unto heaven, and let us make us a name; lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
• Isa 56:11-12 : 11 Yea, the dogs are greedy, they can never have enough; and these are shepherds that cannot understand: they have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter. 12 Come ye, [say they], I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to-morrow shall be as this day, [a day] great beyond measure.
• Ezek 7:12 : 12 The time is come, the day draweth near: let not the buyer rejoice, nor the seller mourn; for wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.
• Gen 11:7 : 7 Come, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another's speech.
• Eccl 2:1 : 1 I said in my heart, Come now, I will prove thee with mirth; therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also was vanity.
• Isa 5:5 : 5 And now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; I will break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:
• Isa 24:2 : 2 And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.
• 1 Cor 7:30 : 30 and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;