Mark 13:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Μὴ ἐλθὼν ἐξαίφνης εὕρῃ ὑμᾶς καθεύδοντας.

Transliteration

Mē elthōn exaiphnēs heurē you katheudontas.

Grammar Details

• *Mē*: negative particle with subjunctive - lest/not
• *elthōn*: aorist participle, active, nominative, masculine, singular - having come
• *exaiphnēs*: adverb - suddenly/unexpectedly
• *heurē*: aorist, subjunctive, active, 3rd singular - might find
• *katheudontas*: present participle, active, accusative, masculine, plural - sleeping

Word Meanings

• *elthōn*: having come/arrived/appeared
• *exaiphnēs*: suddenly/unexpectedly/all at once
• *heurē*: might find/discover/come upon
• *katheudontas*: sleeping/being asleep

Referenced Verses

• Matt 24:48-51 : 48 But if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth; 49 and shall begin to beat his fellow-servants, and shall eat and drink with the drunken; 50 the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not, 51 and shall cut him asunder, and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.
• Mark 14:40 : 40 And again he came, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they knew not what to answer him.
• Luke 21:34 : 34 But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:
• Rom 13:11-14 : 11 And this, knowing the season, that already it is time for you to awake out of sleep: for now is {G2257} salvation nearer to us than when we [first] believed. 12 The night is far spent, and the day is at hand: let us therefore cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor of light. 13 Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy. 14 But put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ, and make not provision for the flesh, to [fulfil] the lusts [thereof].
• 1 Thess 5:6-7 : 6 so then let us not sleep, as do the rest, but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night: and they that are drunken are drunken in the night.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore [he] saith, Awake, thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall shine upon thee.
• Luke 22:45 : 45 And when he rose up from his prayer, he came unto the disciples, and found them sleeping for sorrow,
• Matt 25:5 : 5 Now while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.
• Mark 14:37 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest thou not watch one hour?
• Prov 6:9-9 : 9 How long wilt thou sleep, O sluggard? When wilt thou arise out of thy sleep? 10 [ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep: 11 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
• Prov 24:33-34 : 33 [ Yet] a little sleep, a little slumber, A little folding of the hands to sleep; 34 So shall thy poverty come as a robber, And thy want as an armed man.
• Song 3:1 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Song 5:2 : 2 I was asleep, but my heart waked: It is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, [saying], Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled; For my head is filled with dew, My locks with the drops of the night.
• Isa 56:10 : 10 His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.