Romans 8:22

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Οἴδαμεν γὰρ ὅτι πᾶσα ἡ κτίσις συστενάζει καὶ συνωδίνει ἄχρι τοῦ νῦν.

Transliteration

Oidamen gar hoti pasa hē ktisis systenazei kai synōdinei achri tou nyn.

Grammar Details

*Oidamen*: perfect active indicative 1st person plural - we know
*gar*: postpositive conjunction - for
*hoti*: conjunction - that
*pasa*: nominative feminine singular - all/whole
*hē ktisis*: nominative feminine singular - the creation
*systenazei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - groans together
*kai*: conjunction - and
*synōdinei*: present active indicative 3rd person singular - suffers birth pains together
*achri*: preposition with genitive - until
*tou nyn*: genitive - the present

Word Meanings

*Oidamen*: we know/understand [perfect - completed action with continuing results]
*pasa*: all/whole/entire
*systenazei*: groans together/joins in groaning
*synōdinei*: suffers birth pains together/travails together
*achri tou nyn*: until now/up to the present

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American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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Divine name rendering: Frequently renders the Tetragrammaton as Jehovah in the Old Testament, following ASV tradition.
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Referenced Verses

Jer 12:4 : 4 How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of the whole country wither? for the wickedness of them that dwell therein, the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our latter end.
Jer 12:11 : 11 They have made it a desolation; it mourneth unto me, being desolate; the whole land is made desolate, because no man layeth it to heart.
Mark 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
John 16:21 : 21 A woman when she is in travail hath sorrow, because her hour is come: but when she is delivered of the child, she remembereth no more the anguish, for the joy that a man is born into the world.
Rom 8:20 : 20 For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but by reason of him who subjected it, in hope
Col 1:23 : 23 if so be that ye continue in the faith, grounded and stedfast, and not moved away from the hope of the gospel which ye heard, which was preached in all creation under heaven; whereof I Paul was made a minister.
Ps 48:6 : 6 Trembling took hold of them there, Pain, as of a woman in travail.
Rev 12:2 : 2 and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

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