Mark 7:33

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he took him aside {G2398} from the multitude privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἀπολαβόμενος αὐτὸν ἀπὸ τοῦ ὄχλου κατʼ ἰδίαν, ἔβαλεν τοὺς δακτύλους αὐτοῦ εἰς τὰ ὦτα αὐτοῦ, καὶ πτύσας, ἥψατο τῆς γλώσσης αὐτοῦ·

Transliteration

And apolabomenos him from the ochlou kat' idian, he ebalen the daktylous of him into the ōta of him, and ptysas, he hēpsato the glōssēs of him;

Grammar Details

• *apolabomenos*: aorist middle participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having taken aside
• *ochlou*: genitive, masculine, singular - crowd
• *kat' idian*: idiom - privately/by themselves
• *ebalen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - put/thrust
• *daktylous*: accusative, masculine, plural - fingers
• *ōta*: accusative, neuter, plural - ears
• *ptysas*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, singular - having spit
• *hēpsato*: aorist middle, 3rd singular - touched
• *glōssēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - tongue

Word Meanings

• *apolabomenos*: having taken aside/separated/drawn away
• *kat' idian*: privately/by themselves/in private
• *ebalen*: put/placed/thrust
• *daktylous*: fingers/digits
• *ptysas*: having spit/spat
• *hēpsato*: touched/took hold of

Referenced Verses

• Mark 8:23 : 23 And he took hold of the blind man by the hand, and brought him out of the village; and when he had spit on his eyes, and laid his hands upon him, he asked him, {G1487} Seest thou aught?
• John 9:6-7 : 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed {G1909} his eyes with the clay, 7 and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
• 1 Kgs 17:19-22 : 19 And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into the chamber, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed. 20 And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son? 21 And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, I pray thee, let this child's soul come into him again. 22 And Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
• 2 Kgs 4:4-6 : 4 And thou shalt go in, and shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and pour out into all those vessels; and thou shalt set aside that which is full. 5 So she went from him, and shut the door upon her and upon her sons; they brought [the vessels] to her, and she poured out. 6 And it came to pass, when the vessels were full, that she said unto her son, Bring me yet a vessel. And he said unto her, There is not a vessel more. And the oil stayed.
• 2 Kgs 4:33-34 : 33 He went in therefore, and shut the door upon them twain, and prayed unto Jehovah. 34 And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon him; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.
• Mark 5:40 : 40 And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child {G345} was.