Luke 11:30

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For even as Jonah became a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθὼς γὰρ ἐγένετο Ἰωνᾶς σημεῖον τοῖς Νινευΐταις, οὕτως ἔσται καὶ ὁ Υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου τῇ γενεᾷ ταύτῃ.

Transliteration

For just as kathōs egeneto Iōnas a sēmeion to the Nineutais, thus estai also the Huios of the anthrōpou to this genea tautē.

Grammar Details

• *kathōs*: comparative conjunction - just as/according as
• *egeneto*: aorist indicative middle, 3rd person singular - became/was
• *Iōnas*: proper noun, nominative masculine singular - Jonah
• *sēmeion*: noun, nominative neuter singular - sign/wonder
• *Nineutais*: proper noun, dative masculine plural - Ninevites/people of Nineveh
• *estai*: future indicative middle, 3rd person singular - will be
• *Huios*: noun, nominative masculine singular - Son
• *anthrōpou*: noun, genitive masculine singular - man/human
• *genea*: noun, dative feminine singular - generation
• *tautē*: demonstrative pronoun, dative feminine singular - this

Word Meanings

• *kathōs*: just as/according as/even as
• *egeneto*: became/was/happened to be
• *sēmeion*: sign/wonder/miraculous indicator
• *Huios tou anthrōpou*: Son of Man/Human One
• *genea*: generation/age/race

Referenced Verses

• Jonah 1:17 : 17 And Jehovah prepared a great fish to swallow up Jonah; and Jonah was in the belly of the fish three days and three nights.
• Jonah 2:10 : 10 And Jehovah spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.
• Jonah 3:2-9 : 2 Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee. 3 So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of Jehovah. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city, of three days' journey. 4 And Jonah began to enter into the city a day's journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown. 5 And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them. 6 And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes. 7 And he made proclamation and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste anything; let them not feed, nor drink water; 8 but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands. 9 Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not? 10 And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil which he said he would do unto them; and he did it not.
• Matt 12:40-42 : 40 for as Jonah was three days and three nights in the belly of the whale; so shall the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth. 41 The men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, a greater than Jonah is here. 42 The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and behold, a greater than Solomon is here.
• Luke 24:46-47 : 46 and he said unto them, Thus it is written, {G2532} that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day; 47 and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.