Mark 9:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

And a cloud came over them; and a voice came out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, give ear to him.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐγένετο νεφέλη ἐπισκιάζουσα αὐτοῖς: καὶ ἦλθεν φωνὴ ἐκ τῆς νεφέλης, λέγουσα, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός: αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε.

Transliteration

And egeneto nephelē episkiazousa them: and ēlthen phōnē from the nephelēs, legousa, This estin the Huios of me the agapētos: him akouete.

Grammar Details

• *egeneto*: aorist middle, 3rd singular - became/came to be
• *nephelē*: nominative singular - cloud
• *episkiazousa*: present active participle, nominative singular feminine - overshadowing/covering
• *ēlthen*: aorist active, 3rd singular - came
• *phōnē*: nominative singular - voice/sound
• *nephelēs*: genitive singular - of the cloud
• *legousa*: present active participle, nominative singular feminine - saying
• *estin*: present active, 3rd singular - is
• *Huios*: nominative singular - Son
• *agapētos*: nominative singular - beloved
• *akouete*: present active imperative, 2nd plural - hear/listen to

Word Meanings

• *egeneto*: became/happened/came to be
• *nephelē*: cloud
• *episkiazousa*: overshadowing/covering/casting shadow upon
• *phōnē*: voice/sound
• *legousa*: saying/speaking/telling
• *Huios*: Son
• *agapētos*: beloved/dearly loved
• *akouete*: hear/listen to/obey

Referenced Verses

• Matt 3:17 : 17 And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
• 2 Pet 1:17 : 17 For God the Father gave him honour and glory, when such a voice came to him out of the great glory, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
• Mark 1:11 : 11 And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
• Luke 9:34-36 : 34 And while he said these things, the shade of a cloud came over them, and they were full of fear when they went into the cloud. 35 And there was a voice from the cloud saying, This is my Son, the man of my selection; give ear to him. 36 And after the voice was gone they saw that Jesus was by himself. And they kept quiet, and said nothing at that time to anyone of the things which they had seen.
• John 1:34 : 34 This I saw myself and my witness is that he is the Son of God.
• John 1:49 : 49 Nathanael said to him, Rabbi, you are the Son of God, you are King of Israel!
• John 3:16-18 : 16 For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life. 17 God did not send his Son into the world to be judge of the world; he sent him so that the world might have salvation through him. 18 The man who has faith in him does not come up to be judged; but he who has no faith in him has been judged even now, because he has no faith in the name of the only Son of God.
• John 5:18 : 18 For this cause the Jews had an even greater desire to put Jesus to death, because not only did he not keep the Sabbath but he said God was his Father, so making himself equal with God.
• John 5:22-25 : 22 The Father is not the judge of men, but he has given all decisions into the hands of the Son; 23 So that all men may give honour to the Son even as they give honour to the Father. He who gives no honour to the Son gives no honour to the Father who sent him. 24 Truly I say to you, The man whose ears are open to my word and who has faith in him who sent me, has eternal life; he will not be judged, but has come from death into life. 25 Truly I say to you, The time is coming, it has even now come, when the voice of the Son of God will come to the ears of the dead, and those hearing it will have life.
• John 5:37 : 37 And the Father himself who sent me has given witness about me. Not one of you has ever given ear to his voice; his form you have not seen.
• John 6:69 : 69 And we have faith and are certain that you are the Holy One of God.
• John 9:35 : 35 It came to the ears of Jesus that they had put him out, and meeting him he said, Have you faith in the Son of man?
• John 19:7 : 7 And the Jews made answer, We have a law, and by that law it is right for him to be put to death because he said he was the Son of God.
• John 20:31 : 31 But these are recorded, so that you may have faith that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and so that, having this faith you may have life in his name.
• Acts 1:9 : 9 And when he had said these things, while they were looking, he was taken up, and went from their view into a cloud.
• Acts 3:22-23 : 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.
• Acts 7:37 : 37 This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.
• Acts 8:36 : 36 And while they were going on their way, they came to some water, and the Ethiopian said, See, here is water; why may I not have baptism?
• Rom 1:4 : 4 But was marked out as Son of God in power by the Holy Spirit through the coming to life again of the dead; Jesus Christ our Lord,
• Heb 2:1 : 1 For this reason there is the more need for us to give attention to the things which have come to our ears, for fear that by chance we might be slipping away.
• Heb 12:25-26 : 25 See that you give ear to his voice which comes to you. For if those whose ears were shut to the voice which came to them on earth did not go free from punishment, what chance have we of going free if we give no attention to him whose voice comes from heaven? 26 Whose voice was the cause of the shaking of the earth; but now he has made an oath, saying, There will be still one more shaking, not only of the earth, but of heaven.
• 1 John 4:9-9 : 9 And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.
• 1 John 5:11-12 : 11 And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. 12 He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.
• 1 John 5:20 : 20 And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.
• Rev 1:7 : 7 See, he comes with the clouds, and every eye will see him, and those by whom he was wounded; and all the tribes of the earth will be sorrowing because of him. Yes, so be it.
• Matt 17:5-7 : 5 While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him. 6 And at these words the disciples went down on their faces in great fear. 7 And Jesus came and put his hand on them and said, Get up and have no fear.
• Matt 26:63-64 : 63 But Jesus said not a word. And the high priest said to him, I put you on oath, by the living God, that you will say to us if you are the Christ, the Son of God. 64 Jesus says to him, You say so: but I say to you, From now you will see the Son of man seated at the right hand of power, and coming on the clouds of heaven.
• Matt 27:43 : 43 He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.
• Matt 27:54 : 54 Now the captain and those who were with him watching Jesus, when they saw the earth-shock and the things which were done, were in great fear and said, Truly this was a son of God.
• Exod 23:21-22 : 21 Give attention to him and give ear to his voice; do not go against him; for your wrongdoing will not be overlooked by him, because my name is in him. 22 But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.
• Exod 24:16 : 16 And the glory of the Lord was resting on Mount Sinai, and the cloud was over it for six days; and on the seventh day he said Moses' name out of the cloud.
• 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;
• Deut 18:15-19 : 15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him; 16 In answer to the request you made to the Lord your God in Horeb on the day of the great meeting, when you said, Let not the voice of the Lord my God come to my ears again, and let me not see this great fire any more, or death will overtake me. 17 Then the Lord said to me, What they have said is well said. 18 I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say. 19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
• 1 Kgs 8:10-12 : 10 Now when the priests had come out of the holy place, the house of the Lord was full of the cloud, 11 So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord. 12 Then Solomon said, O Lord, to the sun you have given the heaven for a living-place, but your living-place was not seen by men;
• Ps 2:7 : 7 I will make clear the Lord's decision: he has said to me, You are my son, this day have I given you being.
• Ps 97:2 : 2 Dark clouds are round him; his kingdom is based on righteousness and right judging.
• Dan 7:13 : 13 I saw in visions of the night, and there was coming with the clouds of heaven one like a man, and he came to the one who was very old, and they took him near before him.