Revelation 21:3

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, [ and be] their God:

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἤκουσα φωνῆς μεγάλης ἐκ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ λεγούσης, Ἰδοὺ, ἡ σκηνὴ τοῦ Θεοῦ μετὰ τῶν ἀνθρώπων, καὶ σκηνώσει μετʼ αὐτῶν, καὶ αὐτοὶ λαοὶ αὐτοῦ ἔσονται, καὶ αὐτὸς ὁ Θεὸς ἔσται μετʼ αὐτῶν, Θεός αὐτῶν.

Transliteration

And I ēkousa phōnēs megalēs out of the ouranou legousēs, Idou, the skēnē of-the Theou with the anthrōpōn, and he-will-skēnōsei with them, and they laoi of-him will-esontai, and himself the Theos will-estai with them, Theos of-them.

Grammar Details

*ēkousa*: aorist active indicative, 1st person singular - heard
*phōnēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - voice/sound
*megalēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - great/loud
*ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven/sky
*legousēs*: present active participle, genitive, feminine, singular - saying/speaking
*Idou*: aorist middle imperative, 2nd person singular - behold/look/see
*skēnē*: nominative, feminine, singular - tent/tabernacle/dwelling
*Theou*: genitive, masculine, singular - God
*anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - men/mankind/people
*skēnōsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will dwell/tabernacle
*laoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - peoples/nations
*esontai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person plural - will be
*estai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will be

Word Meanings

*phōnēs*: voice/sound/noise
*megalēs*: great/loud/mighty
*legousēs*: saying/speaking/declaring
*Idou*: behold/look/see/pay attention
*skēnē*: tent/tabernacle/dwelling place
*skēnōsei*: will dwell/tabernacle/pitch tent
*laoi*: peoples/nations/populations
*anthrōpōn*: men/mankind/humanity/people

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Referenced Verses

2 Cor 6:16 : 16 And what agreement hath a temple of God with idols? for we are a temple of the living God; even as God said, I will dwell in them, and walk in them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Lev 26:11-12 : 11 And I will set my tabernacle among you: and my soul shall not abhor you. 12 And I will walk among you, and will be your God, and ye shall be my people.
Zech 8:8 : 8 and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.
Rev 7:15 : 15 Therefore {G5124} are they before the throne of God; and they serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall spread his tabernacle over them.
Ezek 37:27 : 27 My tabernacle also shall be with them; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
John 14:23 : 23 Jesus answered and said unto him, If a man love me, he will keep my word: and my Father will love him, and we will come unto him, and make our abode with him.
Heb 11:16 : 16 But now they desire a better [country], that is, a heavenly: wherefore God is not ashamed of them, to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
Zech 13:9 : 9 And I will bring the third part into the fire, and will refine them as silver is refined, and will try them as gold is tried. They shall call on my name, and I will hear them: I will say, It is my people; and they shall say, Jehovah is my God.
Jer 31:33 : 33 But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith Jehovah: I will put my law in their inward parts, and in their heart will I write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people:
Jer 32:38 : 38 and they shall be my people, and I will be their God:
Rev 12:10 : 10 And I heard a great voice in heaven, saying, Now is come the salvation, and the power, and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of his Christ: for the accuser of our brethren is cast down, who accuseth them before our God day and night.
Rev 21:7 : 7 He that overcometh shall inherit these things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son.
1 Kgs 8:27 : 27 But will God in very deed dwell on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house that I have builded!
2 Chr 6:18 : 18 But will God in very deed dwell with men on the earth? behold, heaven and the heaven of heavens cannot contain thee; how much less this house which I have builded!
Isa 12:6 : 6 Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.
John 1:14 : 14 And the Word became flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, glory as of the only begotten from the Father), full of grace and truth.
Heb 8:10 : 10 For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel After those days, saith the Lord; I will put my laws into their mind, And on their heart also will I write them: And I will be to them {G1519} a God, And they shall be to me {G1519} a people:
2 Cor 6:18 : 18 And will be to you a Father, And ye shall be to me sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.
Gen 17:7-8 : 7 And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee throughout their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God unto thee and to thy seed after thee. 8 And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.
Ezek 43:7 : 7 And he said unto me, Son of man, [this is] the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever. And the house of Israel shall no more defile my holy name, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, and by the dead bodies of their kings [in] their high places;
Rev 10:8 : 8 And the voice which I heard from heaven, I heard it again speaking with me, and saying, Go, take the book which is open in the hand of the angel that standeth upon the sea and upon the earth.

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