Luke 18:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Ἔλεγεν δὲ καὶ παραβολὴν αὐτοῖς, πρὸς τὸ δεῖν πάντοτε προσεύχεσθαι, καὶ μὴ ἐκκακεῖν·

Transliteration

Elegen de and parabolēn to-them, pros the dein always proseuchesthai, and not ekkakein;

Grammar Details

• *Elegen*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular - was speaking/saying [continuous action]
• *de*: conjunction, adversative/transitional - but/and/now
• *parabolēn*: accusative feminine singular - parable/comparison
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - for/toward [purpose]
• *dein*: present active infinitive - necessity/obligation
• *proseuchesthai*: present middle/passive infinitive - to pray
• *ekkakein*: present active infinitive - to lose heart/give up/grow weary

Word Meanings

• *Elegen*: was telling/was saying/continued speaking
• *parabolēn*: parable/analogy/comparison/illustration
• *dein*: necessity/ought/must/should
• *ekkakein*: lose heart/become discouraged/give up/grow weary

Referenced Verses

• Col 4:2 : 2 Give yourselves to prayer at all times, keeping watch with praise;
• 1 Thess 5:17 : 17 Keep on with your prayers.
• Rom 12:12 : 12 Being glad in hope, quiet in trouble, at all times given to prayer,
• Eph 6:18 : 18 With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,
• Phil 4:6 : 6 Have no cares; but in everything with prayer and praise put your requests before God.
• Ps 55:16-17 : 16 As for me, I will make my prayer to God, and he will be my saviour. 17 In the evening and in the morning and in the middle of the day I will make my prayer with sounds of grief; and my voice will come to his ears.
• Luke 21:36 : 36 But keep watch at all times with prayer, that you may be strong enough to come through all these things and take your place before the Son of man.
• Luke 11:5-9 : 5 And he said to them, Which of you, having a friend, would go to him in the middle of the night and say to him, Friend, let me have three cakes of bread; 6 Because a friend of mine has come to me on a journey, and I have nothing to put before him; 7 And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you? 8 I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of. 9 And I say to you, Make requests, and they will be answered; what you are searching for, you will get; when you give the sign, the door will be open to you.
• Jer 29:12 : 12 And you will go on crying to me and making prayer to me, and I will give ear to you.
• Ps 86:3 : 3 Have mercy on me, O Lord; for my cry goes up to you all the day.
• Ps 102:17 : 17 When he has given ear to the prayer of the poor, and has not put his request on one side.
• Gal 6:9 : 9 And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:
• Gen 32:24-26 : 24 Then Jacob was by himself; and a man was fighting with him till dawn. 25 But when the man saw that he was not able to overcome Jacob, he gave him a blow in the hollow part of his leg, so that his leg was damaged. 26 And he said to him, Let me go now, for the dawn is near. But Jacob said, I will not let you go till you have given me your blessing.
• Job 27:8-9 : 8 For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul? 9 Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble? 10 Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
• Ps 27:13 : 13 I had almost given up my hope of seeing the blessing of the Lord in the land of the living.
• Ps 65:2 : 2 To you, O hearer of prayer, let the words of all flesh come.
• Ps 142:5-7 : 5 I have made my cry to you, O Lord; I have said, You are my safe place, and my heritage in the land of the living. 6 Give ear to my cry, for I am made very low: take me out of the hands of my haters, for they are stronger than I. 7 Take my soul out of prison, so that I may give praise to your name: the upright will give praise because of me; for you have given me a full reward.
• Jonah 2:7 : 7 I went down to the bases of the mountains; as for the earth, her walls were about me for ever: but you have taken up my life from the underworld, O Lord my God.
• Heb 12:3-5 : 3 Give thought to him who has undergone so much of the hate of sinners against himself, so that you may not be tired and feeble of purpose. 4 Till now you have not given your blood in your fight against sin: 5 And you have not kept in mind the word which says to you as to sons, My son, do not make little of the Lord's punishment, and do not give up hope when you are judged by him;
• Col 4:12 : 12 Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.
• Gen 32:9-9 : 9 Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you: 10 I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies. 11 Be my saviour from the hand of Esau, my brother: for my fear is that he will make an attack on me, putting to death mother and child. 12 And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.