Mark 2:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

No man {G2532} seweth a piece of undressed cloth on an old garment: else that which should fill it up taketh from it, the new from the old, and a worse rent is made.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ Οὐδεὶς ἐπίβλημα ῥάκους ἀγνάφου ἐπιρράπτει ἐπὶ ἱματίῳ παλαιῷ: εἰ δὲ μή αἴρει τὸ πλήρωμα αὐτοῦ τὸ καινὸν τοῦ παλαιοῦ, καὶ χεῖρον σχίσμα γίνεται.

Transliteration

And No one epiblēma of rhakous agnaphou epirrhaptei upon himatiō palaiō: otherwise airei the plērōma of it the kainon from the palaiou, and worse schisma ginetai.

Grammar Details

*Oudeis*: nominative, masculine, singular - no one
*epiblēma*: accusative, neuter, singular - patch
*rhakous*: genitive, neuter, singular - of cloth/rag
*agnaphou*: genitive, neuter, singular - unshrunk/unfulled
*epirrhaptei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - sews on
*himatiō*: dative, neuter, singular - garment
*palaiō*: dative, neuter, singular - old
*airei*: present active indicative, 3rd singular - takes away/tears
*plērōma*: nominative, neuter, singular - fullness/patch
*kainon*: nominative, neuter, singular - new
*palaiou*: genitive, neuter, singular - of the old
*schisma*: nominative, neuter, singular - tear/division
*ginetai*: present middle indicative, 3rd singular - becomes/happens

Word Meanings

*epiblēma*: patch/piece sewn on
*rhakous agnaphou*: unshrunk cloth/unfulled fabric
*epirrhaptei*: sews on/attaches
*himatiō palaiō*: old garment/old cloak
*airei*: takes away/tears/pulls
*plērōma*: fullness/patch/filling
*schisma*: tear/rent/division

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Referenced Verses

Matt 9:16 : 16 And no man putteth a piece of undressed cloth upon an old garment; for that which should fill it up taketh from the garment, and a worse rent is made.
1 Cor 10:13 : 13 There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.
Ps 103:13-15 : 13 Like as a father pitieth his children, So Jehovah pitieth them that fear him. 14 For he knoweth our frame; He remembereth that we are dust. 15 As for man, his days are as grass; As a flower of the field, so he flourisheth.
Isa 57:16 : 16 For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

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