Romans 3:11

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

There is none that understandeth, There is none that seeketh after God;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ συνίων, οὐκ ἔστιν ὁ ἐκζητῶν τὸν Θεόν.

Transliteration

Ouk estin ho syniōn, ouk estin ho ekzētōn ton Theon.

Grammar Details

• *Ouk*: negative particle - not
• *estin*: verb, present active, 3rd person singular - is/exists
• *ho syniōn*: article + participle, present active, nominative, masculine, singular - the one understanding
• *ouk*: negative particle - not
• *ho ekzētōn*: article + participle, present active, nominative, masculine, singular - the one seeking out
• *ton Theon*: article + noun, accusative, masculine, singular - God

Word Meanings

• *syniōn*: understanding/comprehending/discerning
• *ekzētōn*: seeking out/searching for/earnestly seeking

Referenced Verses

• Ps 14:2-4 : 2 Jehovah looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God. 3 They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one. 4 Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon Jehovah?
• Ps 53:2 : 2 God looked down from heaven upon the children of men, To see if there were any that did understand, That did seek after God.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, [even] in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.
• Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?
• Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
• Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 1:29-30 : 29 For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah: 30 They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.
• Isa 9:13 : 13 Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.
• Isa 27:11 : 11 When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.
• Isa 31:1 : 1 Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help, and rely on horses, and trust in chariots because they are many, and in horsemen because they are very strong, but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek Jehovah!
• Isa 55:6 : 6 Seek ye Jehovah while he may be found; call ye upon him while he is near:
• Isa 65:1 : 1 I am inquired of by them that asked not [for me]; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.
• Jer 4:22 : 22 For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
• Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.
• Hos 7:10 : 10 And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: yet they have not returned unto Jehovah their God, nor sought him, for all this.
• Matt 13:13-14 : 13 Therefore speak I to them in parables; because seeing they see not, and hearing they hear not, neither do they understand. 14 And unto them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall in no wise understand; And seeing ye shall see, and shall in no wise perceive:
• Matt 13:19 : 19 When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth it not, [then] cometh the evil [one], and snatcheth away that which hath been sown in his heart. This is he that was sown by the way side.
• Rom 1:22 : 22 Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And even as they {G1381} {G3756} refused to have God in [their] knowledge, God gave them up unto a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not fitting;
• Rom 8:7 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:
• Ps 53:4 : 4 Have the workers of iniquity no knowledge, Who eat up my people [as] they eat bread, And call not upon God?
• Job 21:15-16 : 15 What is the Almighty, that we should serve him? And what profit should we have, if we pray unto him? 16 Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.