Luke 11:53

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And when he {G3004} was come out from thence, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press upon [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγοντος δὲ αὐτοῦ ταῦτα πρὸς αὐτούς, ἤρξαντο οἱ γραμματεῖς καὶ οἱ Φαρισαῖοι δεινῶς ἐνέχειν, καὶ ἀποστοματίζειν αὐτὸν περὶ πλειόνων:

Transliteration

Legontos de him these things pros them, ērxanto the grammateis and the Pharisaioi deinōs enechein, and apostomatizein him about pleionōn:

Grammar Details

• *Legontos*: present, participle, active, genitive, masculine, singular - saying/speaking
• *de*: conjunction - but/and/now
• *pros*: preposition - to/toward
• *ērxanto*: aorist, indicative, middle, 3rd person plural - they began
• *grammateis*: nominative, masculine, plural - scribes
• *Pharisaioi*: nominative, masculine, plural - Pharisees
• *deinōs*: adverb - terribly/vehemently/severely
• *enechein*: present, infinitive, active - to urge vehemently/press hard
• *apostomatizein*: present, infinitive, active - to provoke to speak/question closely
• *pleionōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of more things/many things

Word Meanings

• *deinōs*: terribly/vehemently/severely/fiercely
• *enechein*: urge vehemently/press hard/be hostile toward
• *apostomatizein*: provoke to speak/question closely/draw out words
• *pleionōn*: more things/many things/numerous subjects

Referenced Verses

• Ps 22:12-13 : 12 Many bulls have compassed me; Strong bulls of Bashan have beset me round. 13 They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.
• Isa 9:12 : 12 the Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
• Jer 18:18 : 18 Then said they, Come, and let us devise devices against Jeremiah; for the law shall not perish from the priest, nor counsel from the wise, nor the word from the prophet. Come, and let us smite him with the tongue, and let us not give heed to any of his words.
• Jer 20:10 : 10 For I have heard the defaming of many, terror on every side. Denounce, and we will denounce him, [say] all my familiar friends, they that watch for my fall; peradventure he will be persuaded, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.
• Luke 20:20 : 20 And they watched him, and sent forth spies, who feigned themselves {G1511} to be righteous, that they might take hold of his speech, so as to deliver him up to the rule and to the authority of the governor.
• Luke 20:27 : 27 And there came to him certain of the Sadducees, they that say that there is no resurrection;
• 1 Cor 13:5 : 5 doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not its own, is not provoked, taketh not account of evil;