Revelation 21:4

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

and he shall wipe away every tear from their eyes; and death shall be no more; neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, {G2071} nor pain, any more: the first things are passed away.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐξαλείψει ὁ Θεὸς πᾶν δάκρυον ἀπὸ τῶν ὀφθαλμῶν αὐτῶν· καὶ ὁ θάνατος οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι, οὔτε πένθος, οὔτε κραυγὴ, οὔτε πόνος οὐκ ἔσται ἔτι: ὅτι τὰ πρῶτα ἀπῆλθον.

Transliteration

And exaleipsei the Theos every dakryon from the ophthalmōn of-them; and the thanatos not will-estai yet, neither penthos, neither kraugē, neither ponos not will-estai yet: because the prōta apēlthon.

Grammar Details

*exaleipsei*: future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will wipe away/remove
*Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - God
*dakryon*: accusative, neuter, singular - tear
*ophthalmōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - eyes
*thanatos*: nominative, masculine, singular - death
*estai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will be
*penthos*: nominative, neuter, singular - mourning/grief
*kraugē*: nominative, feminine, singular - crying/shouting
*ponos*: nominative, masculine, singular - pain/labor
*prōta*: nominative, neuter, plural - first things/former things
*apēlthon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - passed away/departed

Word Meanings

*exaleipsei*: will wipe away/erase/obliterate
*dakryon*: tear/teardrop
*ophthalmōn*: eyes/sight
*thanatos*: death/mortality
*penthos*: mourning/grief/sorrow
*kraugē*: crying/shouting/clamor
*ponos*: pain/labor/toil/distress
*prōta*: first things/former things/previous conditions
*apēlthon*: passed away/departed/went away

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Isa 25:8 : 8 He hath swallowed up death for ever; and the Lord Jehovah will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the reproach of his people will he take away from off all the earth: for Jehovah hath spoken it.
1 Cor 15:26 : 26 The last enemy that shall be abolished is death.
Rev 7:17 : 17 for the Lamb that is in the midst of the throne shall be their shepherd, and shall guide them unto fountains of waters of life: and God shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.
Isa 35:10 : 10 and the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
Isa 60:20 : 20 Thy sun shall no more go down, neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; for Jehovah will be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.
Rev 20:14 : 14 And death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, [even] the lake of fire.
Isa 65:18-19 : 18 But be ye glad and rejoice for ever in that which I create; for, behold, I create Jerusalem a rejoicing, and her people a joy. 19 And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people; and there shall be heard in her no more the voice of weeping and the voice of crying.
Jer 31:13 : 13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.
1 John 2:17 : 17 And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.
Rev 21:1 : 1 And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.
Isa 51:11 : 11 And the ransomed of Jehovah shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their heads: they shall obtain gladness and joy; [and] sorrow and sighing shall flee away.
1 Cor 15:54-58 : 54 But when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall come to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. 55 O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting? 56 The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law: 57 but thanks be to God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. 58 Wherefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labor is not vain in the Lord.
Heb 2:14-15 : 14 Since then the children are sharers in flesh and blood, he also himself in like manner partook of the same; that through death he might bring to nought him that had the power of death, that is, the devil; 15 and might deliver all them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to bondage.
2 Pet 3:10 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief; {G1722} {G3571} in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall be dissolved with fervent heat, and the earth and the works that are therein {G846} shall be burned up.
Isa 61:3 : 3 to appoint unto them that mourn in Zion, to give unto them a garland for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise for the spirit of heaviness; that they may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of Jehovah, that he may be glorified.
1 Cor 7:31 : 31 and those that use the world, as not using it to the full: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Isa 30:19 : 19 For the people shall dwell in Zion at Jerusalem; thou shalt weep no more; he will surely be gracious unto thee at the voice of thy cry; when he shall hear, he will answer thee.
Hos 13:14 : 14 I will ransom them from the power of Sheol; I will redeem them from death: O death, where are thy plagues? O Sheol, where is thy destruction? repentance shall be hid from mine eyes.
Rev 22:3 : 3 And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: {G1722} and his servants shall serve him;
Matt 24:35 : 35 Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Ps 144:4 : 4 Man is like to vanity: His days are as a shadow that passeth away.
2 Cor 6:17 : 17 Wherefore Come ye out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, And touch no unclean thing; And I will receive you,

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