John 17:9

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

I pray for them: I pray not for the world, but for those whom thou hast given me; for they are thine:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐγὼ περὶ αὐτῶν ἐρωτῶ: οὐ περὶ τοῦ κόσμου ἐρωτῶ, ἀλλὰ περὶ ὧν δέδωκάς μοι· ὅτι σοί εἰσιν.

Transliteration

Egō peri them erōtō: not peri the kosmou erōtō, but peri whom dedōkas to me; for to you they eisin.

Grammar Details

• *Egō*: nominative, singular, personal pronoun - I
• *peri*: preposition with genitive - concerning/about
• *erōtō*: present, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I ask/pray
• *kosmou*: genitive, masculine, singular - world
• *dedōkas*: perfect, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you have given
• *eisin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd person plural - they are

Word Meanings

• *Egō*: I/myself
• *peri*: concerning/about/regarding
• *erōtō*: ask/pray/request
• *kosmou*: world/universe/ordered system
• *dedōkas*: have given/entrusted/granted
• *eisin*: are/belong to

Referenced Verses

• Luke 22:32 : 32 but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.
• John 14:16 : 16 And I will pray the Father, and he shall give you another Comforter, that he may be with you for ever,
• John 17:6 : 6 I manifested thy name unto the men whom thou gavest me out of the world: thine they were, and thou gavest them to me; and they have kept thy word.
• John 17:20 : 20 Neither for these only do I pray, but for them also that believe on me through their word;
• Heb 7:25 : 25 Wherefore also he is able to save to the uttermost them that draw near unto God through him, seeing he ever liveth to make intercession for them.
• Heb 9:24 : 24 For Christ entered {G1525} not into a holy place made with hands, like in pattern to the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear before the face of God for us:
• 1 John 2:1-2 : 1 My little children, these things write I unto you that ye may not sin. And if any man sin, we have an Advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ the righteous: 2 and he is the propitiation for our sins; and not for ours only, but also for the whole world.
• 1 John 5:19 : 19 We know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth in the evil one.
• 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.
• Rev 13:8 : 8 And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, [every one] whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.
• Rev 20:15 : 15 And if any was not found written in the book of life, he was cast into the lake of fire.
• John 16:26-27 : 26 In that day ye shall ask in my name: and I say not unto you, that I will pray the Father for you; 27 for the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came forth from the Father.
• John 17:2 : 2 even as thou gavest him authority over all flesh, that to all whom thou hast given him, he should give eternal life.
• Luke 8:34 : 34 And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and {G565} told it in the city and in the country.