Luke 1:70

Bible in Basic English (1941)

(As he said, by the mouth of his holy prophets, from the earliest times,)

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καθὼς ἐλάλησεν διὰ στόματος τῶν ἁγίων τῶν ἀπʼ αἰῶνος προφητῶν αὐτοῦ:

Transliteration

As elalēsen dia stomatos of the hagiōn of the ap' aiōnos prophētōn of him:

Grammar Details

• *elalēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he/she/it spoke
• *dia*: preposition with genitive - through
• *stomatos*: genitive neuter singular - of mouth
• *hagiōn*: genitive masculine plural - of holy ones
• *ap'*: preposition with genitive - from
• *aiōnos*: genitive masculine singular - of age/eternity
• *prophētōn*: genitive masculine plural - of prophets

Word Meanings

• *elalēsen*: spoke/said/told
• *dia stomatos*: through the mouth of/by the mouth of
• *hagiōn*: holy ones/saints
• *ap' aiōnos*: from of old/since the beginning of time/from ancient times
• *prophētōn*: prophets/those who speak for God

Referenced Verses

• Rom 1:2 : 2 Of which God had given word before by his prophets in the holy Writings,
• Acts 3:21-24 : 21 Who is to be kept in heaven till the time when all things are put right, of which God has given word by the mouth of his holy prophets, who have been from the earliest times. 22 For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you. 23 And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people. 24 And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.
• Acts 28:25 : 25 And they went away, for there was a division among them after Paul had said this one thing: Well did the Holy Spirit say by the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,
• Heb 3:7 : 7 And so, as the Holy Spirit says, Today if you let his voice come to your ears,
• 1 Pet 1:12 : 12 And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.
• 2 Pet 1:21 : 21 For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.
• Rev 19:10 : 10 And I went on my face before his feet to give him worship. And he said to me, See you do it not: I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers who keep the witness of Jesus: give worship to God: for the witness of Jesus is the spirit of the prophet's word.
• Gen 12:3 : 3 To them who are good to you will I give blessing, and on him who does you wrong will I put my curse: and you will become a name of blessing to all the families of the earth.
• Gen 49:10 : 10 The rod of authority will not be taken from Judah, and he will not be without a law-giver, till he comes who has the right to it, and the peoples will put themselves under his rule.
• 2 Sam 23:2 : 2 The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.
• Jer 23:5 : 5 See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give to David a true Branch, and he will be ruling as king, acting wisely, doing what is right, and judging uprightly in the land.
• Jer 30:10 : 10 So have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; and do not be troubled, O Israel: for see, I will make you come back from far away, and your seed from the land where they are prisoners; and Jacob will come back, and will be quiet and at peace, and no one will give him cause for fear.
• Dan 9:24-27 : 24 Seventy weeks have been fixed for your people and your holy town, to let wrongdoing be complete and sin come to its full limit, and for the clearing away of evil-doing and the coming in of eternal righteousness: so that the vision and the word of the prophet may be stamped as true, and to put the holy oil on a most holy place. 25 Have then the certain knowledge that from the going out of the word for the building again of Jerusalem till the coming of a prince, on whom the holy oil has been put, will be seven weeks: in sixty-two weeks its building will be complete, with square and earthwork. 26 And at the end of the times, even after the sixty-two weeks, one on whom the holy oil has been put will be cut off and have no ...; and the town and the holy place will be made waste together with a prince; and the end will come with an overflowing of waters, and even to the end there will be war; the making waste which has been fixed. 27 And a strong order will be sent out against the great number for one week; and so for half of the week the offering and the meal offering will come to an end; and in its place will be an unclean thing causing fear; till the destruction which has been fixed is let loose on him who has made waste.
• Mark 12:36 : 36 David himself said in the Holy Spirit, The Lord said to my Lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put those who are against you under your feet.
• Luke 24:26-27 : 26 Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory? 27 And he made clear to them all the things in the Writings, from Moses and from all the prophets, which had to do with himself.
• Luke 24:44 : 44 And he said to them, These are the words which I said to you when I was still with you, how it was necessary for all the things which are in the writings of Moses and the prophets and in the Psalms about me, to be put into effect.
• Gen 3:15 : 15 And there will be war between you and the woman and between your seed and her seed: by him will your head be crushed and by you his foot will be wounded.