Ephesians 1:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἵνα ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ Πατὴρ τῆς δόξης, δῴη ὑμῖν πνεῦμα σοφίας καὶ ἀποκαλύψεως ἐν ἐπιγνώσει αὐτοῦ:

Transliteration

That the Theos of the Kyriou of us Iēsou Christou, the Patēr of the doxēs, might dōē to you pneuma sophias and apokalypseōs in epignōsei of him:

Grammar Details

• *Hina*: subordinating conjunction - purpose
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - subject
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• *hēmōn*: genitive, plural - possessive
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - apposition
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - apposition
• *doxēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - possessive
• *dōē*: aorist active optative, 3rd singular - main verb
• *hymin*: dative, plural - indirect object
• *pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - direct object
• *sophias*: genitive, feminine, singular - descriptive
• *apokalypseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - descriptive
• *en*: preposition governing dative - sphere
• *epignōsei*: dative, feminine, singular - sphere
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - objective genitive

Word Meanings

• *Theos*: God/deity
• *Kyriou*: Lord/master
• *Iēsou*: Jesus
• *Christou*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
• *Patēr*: Father
• *doxēs*: glory/splendor/honor
• *dōē*: might give/grant
• *pneuma*: spirit/breath/wind
• *sophias*: wisdom/knowledge/understanding
• *apokalypseōs*: revelation/disclosure/unveiling
• *epignōsei*: full knowledge/recognition/acknowledgment

Referenced Verses

• Isa 11:2 : 2 And the spirit of the Lord will be resting on him, the spirit of wisdom and good sense, the spirit of wise guiding and strength, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;
• Prov 2:5 : 5 Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.
• 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;
• Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is. 18 And the fruit of righteousness is planted in peace for those who make peace.
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this reason, we, from the day when we had word of it, keep on in prayer for you, that you may be full of the knowledge of his purpose, with all wisdom and experience of the Spirit, 10 Living uprightly in the approval of the Lord, giving fruit in every good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God;
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.
• John 17:25-26 : 25 Father of righteousness, I have knowledge of you, though the world has not; and to these it is clear that you sent me; 26 And I have given to them knowledge of your name, and will give it, so that the love which you have for me may be in them and I in them.
• John 20:17 : 17 Jesus said to her, Do not put your hand on me, for I have not gone up to the Father: but go to my brothers and say to them, I go up to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.
• 1 Cor 14:6 : 6 But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?
• 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 As it is necessary for me to take glory to myself, though it is not a good thing, I will come to visions and revelations of the Lord.
• Eph 1:3 : 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has given us every blessing of the Spirit in the heavens in Christ:
• Eph 3:5 : 5 Which in other generations was not given to the sons of men, but the revelation of it has now been made to his holy Apostles and prophets in the Spirit;
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is, 19 And to have knowledge of the love of Christ which is outside all knowledge, so that you may be made complete as God himself is complete.
• Jer 9:24 : 24 But if any man has pride, let it be in this, that he has the wisdom to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord, working mercy, giving true decisions, and doing righteousness in the earth: for in these things I have delight, says the Lord.
• Ps 24:10 : 10 Who is the King of glory? The Lord of armies, he is the King of glory. (Selah.)
• Dan 2:28-30 : 28 But there is a God in heaven, the unveiler of secrets, and he has given to King Nebuchadnezzar knowledge of what will take place in the last days. Your dreams and the visions of your head on your bed are these: 29 As for you, O King, the thoughts which came to you on your bed were of what will come about after this: and the unveiler of secrets has made clear to you what is to come. 30 As for me, this secret is not made clear to me because of any wisdom which I have more than any living man, but in order that the sense of the dream may be made clear to the king, and that you may have knowledge of the thoughts of your heart.
• Dan 5:11 : 11 There is a man in your kingdom in whom is the spirit of the holy gods; and in the days of your father, light and reason like the wisdom of the gods were seen in him: and King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, made him master of the wonder-workers, and the users of secret arts, and the Chaldaeans, and the readers of signs;
• Luke 2:14 : 14 Glory to God in the highest, and on the earth peace among men with whom he is well pleased.
• 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 Gently guiding those who go against the teaching; if by chance God may give them a change of heart and true knowledge,
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,
• Jas 2:1 : 1 My brothers, if you have the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ of glory, do not take a man's position into account.
• 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And by this we may be certain that we have knowledge of him, if we keep his laws. 4 The man who says, I have knowledge of him, and does not keep his laws, is false, and there is nothing true in him:
• Rev 7:12 : 12 So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.
• Matt 11:25 : 25 At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Jesus made answer and said to him, A blessing on you, Simon Bar-jonah: because this knowledge has not come to you from flesh and blood, but from my Father in heaven.
• Dan 10:1 : 1 In the third year of Cyrus, king of Persia, a secret was unfolded to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, even a hard work: and he had knowledge of it, and the vision was clear to him.
• Ps 29:3 : 3 The voice of the Lord is on the waters: the God of glory is thundering, the Lord is on the great waters.
• Gen 41:38-39 : 38 Then Pharaoh said to his servants, Where may we get such a man as this, a man in whom is the spirit of God? 39 And Pharaoh said to Joseph, Seeing that God has made all this clear to you, there is no other man of such wisdom and good sense as you:
• 1 Chr 29:11 : 11 Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.
• Ps 24:7 : 7 Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.
• Jer 24:7 : 7 And I will give them a heart to have knowledge of me, that I am the Lord: and they will be my people, and I will be their God: for they will come back to me with all their heart.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And no longer will they be teaching every man his neighbour and every man his brother, saying, Get knowledge of the Lord: for they will all have knowledge of me, from the least of them to the greatest of them, says the Lord: for they will have my forgiveness for their evil-doing, and their sin will go from my memory for ever.
• Jer 2:11 : 11 Has any nation ever made a change in their gods, though they are no gods? but my people have given up their glory in exchange for what is of no profit.
• Rom 15:6 : 6 So that with one mouth you may give glory to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.
• 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 Of which not one of the rulers of this world had knowledge: for if they had, they would not have put the Lord of glory on the cross:
• 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 But God has given us the revelation of these things through his Spirit, for the Spirit makes search into all things, even the deep things of God.
• 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 For to one are given words of wisdom through the Spirit; and to another words of knowledge through the same Spirit:
• Acts 6:10 : 10 But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.
• Acts 7:2 : 2 And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,
• John 8:54-55 : 54 Jesus said in answer, If I take glory for myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father who gives me glory, of whom you say that he is your God. 55 You have no knowledge of him, but I have knowledge of him; and if I said I have no knowledge of him I would be talking falsely like you: but I have full knowledge of him, and I keep his word.
• John 14:17 : 17 Even the Spirit of true knowledge. That Spirit the world is not able to take to its heart because it sees him not and has no knowledge of him: but you have knowledge of him, because he is ever with you and will be in you.
• John 14:26 : 26 But the Helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will be your teacher in all things and will put you in mind of everything I have said to you.
• John 16:3 : 3 They will do these things to you because they have not had knowledge of the Father or of me.
• John 17:3 : 3 And this is eternal life: to have knowledge of you, the only true God, and of him whom you have sent, even Jesus Christ.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
• Matt 6:13 : 13 And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.
• Luke 12:12 : 12 For the Holy Spirit will make clear to you in that very hour what to say.
• Luke 21:15 : 15 For I will give you words and wisdom, so that not one of those who are against you will be able to get the better of you, or to put you in the wrong.
• Col 2:2-3 : 2 So that their hearts may be comforted, and that being joined together in love, they may come to the full wealth of the certain knowledge of the secret of God, even Christ, 3 In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.