Matthew 15:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And he said, Are ye also even yet without understanding?

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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A highly literal, word-for-word translation (ASV, 1901) augmented with Strong's numbering to connect English words to underlying Hebrew and Greek terms for study.

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Integrated Strong's numbering: Links English terms to underlying Hebrew and Greek words for deeper lexical study.
Formal equivalence: Prioritizes close alignment with source-language forms and structures.
Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Consistent lexical choices aid exegesis
Stable, longstanding scholarly text

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Archaic language reduces readability
Older textual basis compared to some modern translations
Strong's numbers are a concordance index, not full lexical definitions

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Referenced Verses

Matt 16:9 : 9 Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?
Mark 9:32 : 32 But they understood not the saying, and were afraid to ask him.
Mark 7:18 : 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] {G1410} cannot defile him;
Matt 15:10 : 10 And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:
Mark 8:17-18 : 17 And Jesus perceiving it saith unto them, Why reason ye, because ye have no bread? do ye not yet perceive, neither understand? have ye your heart hardened? 18 Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?
Luke 9:45 : 45 But they understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
Luke 18:34 : 34 And they understood none of these things; and this saying was hid from them, and they perceived not the things that were said.
Luke 24:45 : 45 Then opened he their mind, that they might understand the scriptures;
Heb 5:12 : 12 For {G1063} when by reason of the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need again that some one teach you the rudiments of the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of solid food.
Matt 16:11 : 11 How is it that ye do not perceive that I spake not to you concerning bread? But beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.
Mark 6:52 : 52 for they understood not concerning the loaves, but their heart was hardened.
Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Whom will he teach knowledge? and whom will he make to understand the message? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts? 10 For it is precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little.
Matt 13:51 : 51 Have ye understood all these things? They say unto him, Yea.

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21And he said unto them, Do ye not yet understand?
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