Mark 3:20

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

καὶ ἔρχονται εἴς οἶκον. ⋄Καὶ συνέρχεται πάλιν ὄχλος, ὥστε μὴ δύνασθαι αὐτοὺς μήτε ἄρτον φαγεῖν.

Transliteration

and they erchontai into oikon. And synerchetai again ochlos, hōste not to be able dynasthai them neither arton to phagein.

Grammar Details

• *erchontai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd plural - come/go [ongoing action]
• *oikon*: accusative, masculine, singular - house/home [direction]
• *synerchetai*: present middle/passive indicative, 3rd singular - comes together/gathers [ongoing action]
• *ochlos*: nominative, masculine, singular - crowd [subject]
• *hōste*: conjunction - so that/with the result that [result]
• *dynasthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to be able [ongoing ability]
• *arton*: accusative, masculine, singular - bread/food [direct object]
• *phagein*: aorist active infinitive - to eat [completed action]

Word Meanings

• *erchontai*: come/go/arrive
• *oikon*: house/home/household
• *synerchetai*: comes together/assembles/gathers
• *ochlos*: crowd/multitude/throng
• *dynasthai*: to be able/have power/be strong enough
• *arton*: bread/food/loaf
• *phagein*: to eat/consume

Referenced Verses

• Mark 6:31 : 31 And he saith unto them, Come ye yourselves apart into a desert place, and rest a while. For there were many coming and going, and they had no leisure so much as to eat.
• John 4:31-34 : 31 In the mean while the disciples prayed him, saying, Rabbi, eat. 32 But he said unto them, I have meat to eat that ye know not. 33 The disciples therefore said one to another, Hath any man brought him [aught] to eat? 34 Jesus saith unto them, My meat is to do the will of him that sent me, and to accomplish his work.
• Mark 3:7 : 7 And Jesus with his disciples withdrew to the sea: and a great multitude from Galilee followed; {G846} and from Judaea,
• Mark 3:9 : 9 And he spake to his disciples, that a little boat should wait on him because of the crowd, lest they should throng him:
• Mark 7:17 : 17 And when he was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked of him the parable.
• Mark 9:28 : 28 And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, [How] [is it] that we could not cast it out?
• Luke 6:17 : 17 and he came down with them, and stood on a level place, and a great multitude of his disciples, and a great number of the people from all Judaea and Jerusalem, and the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, who came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;