1 Corinthians 10:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For it is my desire, my brothers, that you may keep in mind how all our fathers were under the cloud, and they all went through the sea;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Οὐ θέλω δὲ ὑμᾶς ἀγνοεῖν, ἀδελφοί, ὅτι οἱ πατέρες ἡμῶν πάντες ὑπὸ τὴν νεφέλην ἦσαν, καὶ πάντες διὰ τῆς θαλάσσης διῆλθον·

Transliteration

Not thelō de you agnoein, adelphoi, that the pateres of us all under the nephelēn ēsan, and all through the thalassēs diēlthon

Grammar Details

• *thelō*: present indicative, 1st person singular - I want/wish
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• *agnoein*: present infinitive - to be ignorant/not know
• *adelphoi*: vocative, masculine, plural - brothers
• *pateres*: nominative, masculine, plural - fathers
• *nephelēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - cloud
• *ēsan*: imperfect, 3rd person plural - they were [continuous]
• *thalassēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - sea
• *diēlthon*: aorist indicative, 3rd person plural - they went through/passed through

Word Meanings

• *thelō*: want/wish/desire
• *agnoein*: to be ignorant/not know/be unaware
• *adelphoi*: brothers/brethren/fellow believers
• *pateres*: fathers/ancestors/forefathers
• *diēlthon*: went through/passed through/traversed

Referenced Verses

• Exod 14:29 : 29 But the children of Israel went through the sea walking on dry land, and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.
• Neh 9:11-12 : 11 By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters. 12 And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.
• Ps 105:39 : 39 A cloud was stretched over them for a cover; and he sent fire to give light in the night.
• Ps 66:6 : 6 The sea was turned into dry land: they went through the river on foot: there did we have joy in him.
• Ps 78:13-14 : 13 The sea was cut in two so that they might go through; the waters were massed together on this side and on that. 14 In the daytime he was guiding them in the cloud, and all through the night with a light of fire.
• Ps 78:53 : 53 He took them on safely so that they had no fear; but their haters were covered by the sea.
• Ps 77:16-20 : 16 The waters saw you, O God; the waters saw you, they were in fear: even the deep was troubled. 17 The clouds sent out water; the skies gave out a sound; truly, your arrows went far and wide. 18 The voice of your thunder went rolling on; the world was flaming with the light of the storm; the earth was shaking. 19 Your way was in the sea, and your road in the great waters; there was no knowledge of your footsteps. 20 You were guiding your people like a flock, by the hand of Moses and Aaron.
• Ps 106:7-9 : 7 Our fathers did not give thought to your wonders in Egypt; they did not keep in memory the great number of your mercies, but gave you cause for wrath at the sea, even at the Red Sea. 8 But he was their saviour because of his name, so that men might see his great power. 9 By his word the Red Sea was made dry: and he took them through the deep waters as through the waste land. 10 And he took them safely out of the hands of their haters, and kept them from the attacks of those who were against them. 11 And the waters went over their haters; all of them came to an end.
• Ps 114:3-5 : 3 The sea saw it, and went in flight; Jordan was turned back. 4 The mountains were jumping like goats, and the little hills like lambs. 5 What was wrong with you, O sea, that you went in flight? O Jordan, that you were turned back?
• Ps 136:13-15 : 13 To him who made a way through the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: 14 And let Israel go through it: for his mercy is unchanging for ever: 15 By him Pharaoh and his army were overturned in the Red Sea: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.
• Isa 58:11-13 : 11 And the Lord will be your guide at all times; in dry places he will give you water in full measure, and will make strong your bones; and you will be like a watered garden, and like an ever-flowing spring. 12 And your sons will be building again the old waste places: you will make strong the bases of old generations: and you will be named, He who puts up the broken walls, and, He who makes ready the ways for use. 13 If you keep the Sabbath with care, not doing your business on my holy day; and if the Sabbath seems to you a delight, and the new moon of the Lord a thing to be honoured; and if you give respect to him by not doing your business, or going after your pleasure, or saying unholy words;
• John 4:20 : 20 Our fathers gave worship on this mountain, but you Jews say that the right place for worship is in Jerusalem.
• Rom 4:11 : 11 And he was given the sign of circumcision as a witness of the faith which he had before he underwent circumcision: so that he might be the father of all those who have faith, though they have not circumcision, and so that righteousness might be put to their account;
• Rom 11:21 : 21 For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.
• 1 Cor 12:1 : 1 But about the things of the spirit, my brothers, it is not right for you to be without teaching.
• 1 Cor 14:38 : 38 But if any man is without knowledge, let him be so.
• Gal 3:29 : 29 And if you are Christ's, then you are Abraham's seed, and yours is the heritage by the right of God's undertaking given to Abraham.
• Heb 11:29 : 29 By faith they went through the Red Sea as if it had been dry land, though the Egyptians were overcome by the water when they made an attempt to do the same.
• Rev 15:2-3 : 2 And I saw a sea which seemed like glass mixed with fire; and those who had overcome the beast and his image and the number of his name, were in their places by the sea of glass, with God's instruments of music in their hands. 3 And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.
• Neh 9:19 : 19 Even then, in your great mercy, you did not give them up in the waste land: the pillar of cloud still went before them by day, guiding them on their way, and the pillar of fire by night, to give them light, and make clear the way they were to go.
• Exod 13:21-22 : 21 And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, guiding them on their way; and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light: so that they were able to go on day and night: 22 The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.
• Exod 14:19-22 : 19 Then the angel of God, who had been before the tents of Israel, took his place at their back; and the pillar of cloud, moving from before them, came to rest at their back: 20 And it came between the army of Egypt and the army of Israel; and there was a dark cloud between them, and they went on through the night; but the one army came no nearer to the other all the night. 21 And when Moses' hand was stretched out over the sea, the Lord with a strong east wind made the sea go back all night, and the waters were parted in two and the sea became dry land. 22 And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.
• Exod 40:34 : 34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord;
• Num 9:15-22 : 15 And on the day when the House was put up, the cloud came down on it, on the Tent of witness; and in the evening there was a light like fire over the House till the morning. 16 And so it was at all times: it was covered by the cloud, and by a light as of fire by night. 17 And whenever the cloud was taken up from over the House, then the children of Israel went journeying on; and in the place where the cloud came to rest, there the children of Israel put up their tents. 18 At the order of the Lord the children of Israel went forward, and at the order of the Lord they put up their tents: as long as the cloud was resting on the House, they did not go away from that place. 19 When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on. 20 Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on. 21 And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward. 22 Or if the cloud came to rest on the House for two days or a month or a year without moving, the children of Israel went on waiting there and did not go on; but whenever it was taken up they went forward on their journey.
• Num 14:14 : 14 And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.
• Num 33:8 : 8 And journeying on from before Hahiroth, they went through the sea into the waste land: they went three days' journey through the waste land of Etham and put up their tents in Marah.
• Deut 1:33 : 33 Who goes before you on your way, looking for a place where you may put up your tents, in fire by night, lighting up the way you are to go, and in a cloud by day.
• Josh 4:23 : 23 For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across: