Mark 9:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he asked his father, How long time is it since this hath come unto him? And he said, From a child.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐπηρώτησεν τὸν πατέρα αὐτοῦ, Πόσος χρόνος ἐστίν ὡς τοῦτο γέγονεν αὐτῷ; Ὁ δὲ εἶπεν, Παιδιόθεν.

Transliteration

And he epērōtēsen the patera of him, How much chronos estin as this gegonen to him? He de eipen, Paidiothen.

Grammar Details

• *epērōtēsen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - asked
• *patera*: accusative singular - father
• *chronos*: nominative singular - time
• *estin*: present active, 3rd singular - is
• *gegonen*: perfect active, 3rd singular - has happened
• *de*: particle - but/and
• *eipen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - said
• *Paidiothen*: adverb - from childhood

Word Meanings

• *epērōtēsen*: asked/questioned/inquired
• *patera*: father
• *chronos*: time/period/duration
• *gegonen*: has happened/occurred/been
• *eipen*: said/spoke
• *Paidiothen*: from childhood/since he was a child

Referenced Verses

• Acts 9:33 : 33 And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, who had kept his bed {G1537} eight years; for he was palsied.
• Acts 14:8 : 8 And at Lystra there sat a certain man, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother's womb, who never had walked.
• Job 5:7 : 7 But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
• Job 14:1 : 1 Man, that is born of a woman, Is of few days, and full of trouble.
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity; And in sin did my mother conceive me.
• Mark 5:25 : 25 And a {G5100} woman, who had an issue of blood twelve years,
• Luke 8:43 : 43 And a woman having {G1722} an issue of blood {G575} twelve years, who had spent all her living upon physicians, and could not be healed of any,
• Luke 13:16 : 16 And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan had bound, lo, [these] eighteen {G2532} {G3638} years, to have been loosed from this bond on the day of the sabbath?
• John 5:5-6 : 5 And a certain man was there, who had {G1722} been thirty and eight years in his infirmity. 6 When Jesus saw him lying, and knew that he had been now a long time [in that case], he saith unto him, Wouldest thou be made whole?
• John 9:1 : 1 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
• John 9:20-21 : 20 His parents answered {G846} and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21 but how he now seeth, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself.
• Acts 3:2 : 2 And a certain man that was lame from his mother's womb was carried, whom they laid daily {G2596} at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask alms of them that entered into the temple;
• Acts 4:22 : 22 For the man was more than forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was wrought.