Luke 8:43

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And a woman having {G1722} an issue of blood {G575} twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ γυνὴ οὖσα ἐν ῥύσει αἵματος ἀπὸ ἐτῶν δώδεκα, ἥτις εἰς ἰατροὺς προσαναλώσασα ὅλον τὸν βίον, οὐκ ἴσχυσεν ὑπʼ οὐδενὸς θεραπευθῆναι,

Transliteration

And gynē ousa in rhysei of haimatos from etōn dōdeka, who to iatrous prosanalōsasa whole the bion, not ischysen by no one therapeuthēnai,

Grammar Details

• *gynē*: nominative, feminine, singular - woman
• *ousa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - being
• *rhysei*: dative, feminine, singular - flow/discharge
• *haimatos*: genitive, neuter, singular - of blood
• *etōn*: genitive, neuter, plural - of years
• *dōdeka*: cardinal numeral - twelve
• *iatrous*: accusative, masculine, plural - physicians/doctors
• *prosanalōsasa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having spent
• *bion*: accusative, masculine, singular - livelihood/life/means
• *ischysen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - was able/had strength
• *therapeuthēnai*: aorist passive infinitive - to be healed/cured

Word Meanings

• *gynē*: woman/wife
• *ousa*: being/existing
• *rhysei*: flow/discharge/hemorrhage
• *haimatos*: blood/bloodshed
• *etōn*: years
• *dōdeka*: twelve
• *iatrous*: physicians/doctors/healers
• *prosanalōsasa*: having spent/consumed/used up
• *bion*: livelihood/life/means of living
• *ischysen*: was able/had strength/succeeded
• *therapeuthēnai*: to be healed/cured/treated

Referenced Verses

• Matt 9:20-22 : 20 And behold, a woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the border of his garment: 21 for she said within herself, If I do but touch his garment, I shall be made whole. 22 But Jesus turning and seeing her said, Daughter, be of good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.
• Mark 5:25-26 : 25 And a {G5100} woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years, 26 and had suffered many things of many physicians, and had spent all that she had, and was nothing bettered, but rather {G1519} grew worse,
• Acts 3:2 : 2 And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily {G2596} at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
• Acts 4:22 : 22 For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.
• Acts 14:8-9 : 8 And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked. 9 The same heard Paul speaking, who, fastening eyes upon him, and seeing that he had faith to be made whole, 10 said with a loud voice, Stand upright on thy feet. And he leaped up and walked.
• 2 Chr 16:12 : 12 And in the thirty and ninth year of his reign Asa was diseased in his feet; his disease was exceeding great: yet in his disease he sought not to Jehovah, but to the physicians.
• Job 13:4 : 4 But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.
• Ps 108:12 : 12 Give us help against the adversary; For vain is the help of man.
• Isa 2:22 : 22 Cease ye from man, whose breath is in his nostrils; for wherein is he to be accounted of?
• Isa 55:1-3 : 1 Ho, every one that thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price. 2 Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labor for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness. 3 Incline your ear, and come unto me; hear, and your soul shall live: and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.
• Mark 9:18 : 18 and wheresoever it taketh him, it dasheth him down: and he foameth, and grindeth {G3599} his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast it out; and they were not able.
• Mark 9:21-22 : 21 And he asked his father, How long time is it since this hath come unto him? And he said, From a child. 22 And oft-times it hath cast him both into the fire and into the waters, to destroy him: but if thou canst do anything, have compassion on us, and help us.
• Luke 8:27 : 27 And when he was come forth upon the land, there met him a certain man out of the city, who had demons; and for a long time he had worn no clothes, and abode not in [any] house, but in the tombs.
• Luke 13:11 : 11 And behold, a woman that had a spirit of infirmity eighteen {G2532} {G3638} years; and she was bowed together, and could in no wise lift herself up.
• Luke 13:16 : 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, [these] eighteen {G2532} {G3638} years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?
• John 5:5-6 : 5 And a certain man was there, who had {G1722} been thirty and eight years in his infirmity. 6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case], he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?
• John 9:1 : 1 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
• John 9:21 : 21 but how he now seeth, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself.
• Lev 15:25-33 : 25 And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days not in the time of her impurity, or if she have an issue beyond the time of her impurity; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness she shall be as in the days of her impurity: she is unclean. 26 Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her impurity: and everything whereon she sitteth shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her impurity. 27 And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even. 28 But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean. 29 And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting. 30 And the priest shall offer the one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering; and the priest shall make atonement for her before Jehovah for the issue of her uncleanness. 31 Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness, that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is in the midst of them. 32 This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean thereby; 33 and of her that is sick with her impurity, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.