Romans 8:36

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

Even as it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter.

Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθὼς γέγραπται, ὅτι Ἕνεκά σοῦ θανατούμεθα ὅλην τὴν ἡμέραν· ἐλογίσθημεν ὡς πρόβατα σφαγῆς.

Transliteration

Kathōs gegraptai, hoti Heneka sou thanatoumetha holēn tēn hēmeran; elogisthēmen hōs probata sphagēs.

Grammar Details

*Kathōs*: subordinating conjunction - just as
*gegraptai*: perfect passive indicative 3rd person singular - it has been written
*hoti*: conjunction - that
*Heneka*: preposition with genitive - for the sake of
*sou*: genitive 2nd person singular - you
*thanatoumetha*: present passive indicative 1st person plural - we are being put to death
*holēn*: accusative feminine singular - whole/all
*tēn hēmeran*: accusative feminine singular - the day
*elogisthēmen*: aorist passive indicative 1st person plural - we were considered
*hōs*: comparative particle - as/like
*probata*: nominative neuter plural - sheep
*sphagēs*: genitive feminine singular - of slaughter

Word Meanings

*gegraptai*: it has been written [perfect passive - completed action with continuing results]
*Heneka sou*: for your sake/on account of you
*thanatoumetha*: we are being put to death/killed [ongoing passive]
*holēn tēn hēmeran*: all day long/the whole day
*elogisthēmen*: we were considered/reckoned/regarded [completed passive action]
*probata sphagēs*: sheep of slaughter/sheep for slaughtering

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Referenced Verses

Ps 44:22 : 22 Yea, for thy sake are we killed all the day long; We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.
1 Cor 15:30 : 30 {G2532} Why do we also stand in jeopardy every hour?
Isa 53:7 : 7 He was oppressed, yet when he was afflicted he opened not his mouth; as a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and as a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
Jer 51:40 : 40 I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he-goats.
John 16:2 : 2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the hour cometh, that whosoever killeth you shall think that he offereth service unto God.
Acts 8:32 : 32 Now the passage of the Scripture which he was reading was this, He was led as a sheep to the slaughter; And as a lamb before his shearer is dumb, So he openeth not his mouth:
Acts 20:24 : 24 But I hold not my life of any account as dear unto myself, so that I may accomplish my course, and the ministry which I received from the Lord Jesus, to testify the gospel of the grace of God.
1 Cor 4:9 : 9 For, I think, {G3754} God hath set forth us the apostles last of all, as men doomed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, both to angels and men.
Jer 11:19 : 19 But I was like a gentle lamb that is led to the slaughter; and I knew not that they had devised devices against me, [saying], Let us destroy the tree with the fruit thereof, and let us cut him off from the land of the living, that his name may be no more remembered.
Jer 12:3 : 3 But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.
Ps 141:7 : 7 As when one ploweth and cleaveth the earth, Our bones are scattered at the mouth of Sheol.
2 Cor 4:10-11 : 10 always bearing about in the body the dying of {G2962} Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our body. 11 For we who live are always delivered unto death for Jesus' sake, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh.

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