Luke 12:54

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he said to the multitudes also, When ye see a cloud rising in the west, straightway ye say, There cometh a shower; and so it cometh to pass.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ἔλεγεν δὲ καὶ τοῖς ὄχλοις, Ὅταν ἴδητε τὴν νεφέλην ἀνατέλλουσαν ἀπὸ δυσμῶν, εὐθέως λέγετε, Ὄμβρος ἔρχεται· καὶ γίνεται οὕτως.

Transliteration

He was elegen de also to the ochlois, When you idēte the nephelēn anatellousan from dysmōn, eutheōs you legete, Ombros erchetai; and it ginetai houtōs.

Grammar Details

*elegen*: imperfect active, 3rd singular - was saying
*de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
*ochlois*: dative, masculine, plural - crowds
*idēte*: aorist active subjunctive, 2nd plural - you might see
*nephelēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - cloud
*anatellousan*: present active participle, accusative, feminine, singular - rising
*dysmōn*: genitive, feminine, plural - west (literally: settings [of the sun])
*eutheōs*: adverb - immediately/at once
*legete*: present active, 2nd plural - you say
*Ombros*: nominative, masculine, singular - rain shower
*erchetai*: present middle, 3rd singular - comes
*ginetai*: present middle, 3rd singular - happens/becomes
*houtōs*: adverb - thus/so

Word Meanings

*elegen*: was saying/was telling/was speaking
*ochlois*: crowds/multitudes
*nephelēn*: cloud/mass of clouds
*anatellousan*: rising/coming up
*dysmōn*: west/setting [of the sun]
*Ombros*: shower/rainstorm/heavy rain
*erchetai*: comes/is coming
*ginetai*: happens/becomes/comes to pass

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

1 Kgs 18:44-45 : 44 And it came to pass at the seventh time, that he said, Behold, there ariseth a cloud out of the sea, as small as a man's hand. And he said, Go up, say unto Ahab, Make ready [thy chariot], and get thee down, that the rain stop thee not. 45 And it came to pass in a little while, that the heavens grew black with clouds and wind, and there was a great rain. And Ahab rode, and went to Jezreel:
Matt 16:2-4 : 2 But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, [It will be] fair weather: for the heaven is red. 3 And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to-day: for the heaven is red and lowering. Ye know how to discern the face of the heaven; but ye cannot [discern] the signs of the times. 4 An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given unto it, but the sign of Jonah. And he left them, and departed.

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