John 16:8

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he, when he is come, will convict the world in respect of sin, and of righteousness, and of judgment:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐλθὼν, ἐκεῖνος ἐλέγξει τὸν κόσμον περὶ ἁμαρτίας, καὶ περὶ δικαιοσύνης, καὶ περὶ κρίσεως:

Transliteration

And elthōn, that one will elegxei the kosmon peri hamartias, and peri dikaiosynēs, and peri kriseōs:

Grammar Details

• Καὶ: conjunction - and
• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having come
• ἐκεῖνος: demonstrative pronoun, nominative, masculine, singular - that one
• *elegxei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will convict/expose
• τὸν: definite article, accusative, masculine, singular - the
• *kosmon*: noun, accusative, masculine, singular - world
• *peri*: preposition - concerning
• *hamartias*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - sin
• καὶ: conjunction - and
• *dikaiosynēs*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - righteousness
• *kriseōs*: noun, genitive, feminine, singular - judgment

Word Meanings

• *elthōn*: having come/when he comes
• *elegxei*: will convict/will expose/will prove wrong
• *kosmon*: world/world-system/humanity
• *peri*: concerning/about/regarding
• *hamartias*: sin/wrongdoing
• *dikaiosynēs*: righteousness/justice
• *kriseōs*: judgment/decision/condemnation

Referenced Verses

• John 8:46 : 46 Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why {G5101} do ye not believe me?
• Jude 1:15 : 15 to execute judgment upon all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have ungodly wrought, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
• Acts 2:37 : 37 Now when they heard [this,] they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and the rest of the apostles, {G435} Brethren, what shall we do?
• Acts 16:29-30 : 29 And he called for lights and sprang in, and, {G1096} trembling for fear, fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
• 1 Cor 14:24 : 24 But if all prophesy, and there come in one unbelieving or unlearned, he is reproved by all, he is judged by all;
• John 8:9 : 9 And they, when they heard it, {G1651} {G5259} {G4893} went out one by one, beginning from the eldest, [even] unto the last: and Jesus was left alone, and the woman, where she was, in the midst.