Luke 8:52

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And all were weeping, and bewailing her: but he said, Weep not; for she is not dead, but sleepeth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔκλαιον δὲ πάντες, καὶ ἐκόπτοντο αὐτήν: ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, Μὴ κλαίετε· οὐκ ἀπέθανεν, ἀλλὰ καθεύδει.

Transliteration

Eklaion de all, and ekoptonto her: he de eipen, Not klaiete; not apethanen, but katheudei.

Grammar Details

• *Eklaion*: imperfect active, 3rd plural - were weeping
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and
• *ekoptonto*: imperfect middle/passive, 3rd plural - were mourning/beating themselves
• *eipen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - said
• *klaiete*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - weep
• *apethanen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - died
• *katheudei*: present active, 3rd singular - sleeps

Word Meanings

• *Eklaion*: were weeping/crying/lamenting
• *ekoptonto*: were mourning/beating themselves/lamenting
• *eipen*: said/spoke
• *klaiete*: weep/cry/lament
• *apethanen*: died/is dead
• *katheudei*: sleeps/is sleeping

Referenced Verses

• Luke 23:27 : 27 And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who {G2532} bewailed and lamented him.
• John 11:4 : 4 But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.
• John 11:11-13 : 11 These things spake he: and after this he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus is fallen asleep; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. 12 The disciples therefore said unto him, Lord, if he is fallen asleep, he will recover. 13 Now Jesus had spoken of his death: but they thought that he spake of taking rest in sleep.
• Gen 23:2 : 2 And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.
• Gen 27:34-35 : 34 When Esau heard the words of his father, he cried with an exceeding great and bitter cry, and said unto his father, Bless me, even me also, O my father. 35 And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.
• Exod 24:17 : 17 And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like devouring fire on the top of the mount in the eyes of the children of Israel.
• 2 Sam 18:33 : 33 And the king was much moved, and went up to the chamber over the gate, and wept: and as he went, thus he said, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! would I had died for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son!
• Jer 9:17-21 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come: 18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. 20 Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. 21 For death is come up into our windows, it is entered into our palaces; to cut off the children from without, [and] the young men from the streets.
• Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplication; and they shall look unto me whom they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him, as one mourneth for his only son, and shall be in bitterness for him, as one that is in bitterness for his first-born.
• Matt 11:17 : 17 and say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not mourn.
• Mark 5:38-39 : 38 And they come to the house of the ruler of the synagogue; and he beholdeth a tumult, and [many] weeping and wailing greatly. 39 And when he was entered in, he saith unto them, Why make ye a tumult, and weep? the child is not dead, but sleepeth.