Matthew 17:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔτι αὐτοῦ λαλοῦντος, ἰδού, νεφέλη φωτεινὴ ἐπεσκίασεν αὐτούς: καὶ ἰδού φωνὴ ἐκ τῆς νεφέλης, λέγουσα, Οὗτός ἐστιν ὁ Υἱός μου ὁ ἀγαπητός, ἐν ᾧ εὐδόκησα· αὐτοῦ ἀκούετε.

Transliteration

Eti him lalountos, idou, nephelē phōteinē epeskiasen them: and idou phōnē ek the nephelēs, legousa, Houtos estin the Huios my the agapētos, en whom eudokēsa; him akouete.

Grammar Details

• *Eti*: adverb - still/yet
• *lalountos*: present, active, participle, genitive, masculine, singular - speaking
• *idou*: aorist, middle, imperative, 2nd singular used as interjection - behold
• *nephelē*: nominative, feminine, singular - cloud
• *phōteinē*: nominative, feminine, singular - bright/luminous
• *epeskiasen*: aorist, active, indicative, 3rd singular - overshadowed
• *phōnē*: nominative, feminine, singular - voice
• *ek*: preposition with genitive - from/out of
• *nephelēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - cloud
• *legousa*: present, active, participle, nominative, feminine, singular - saying
• *Houtos*: nominative, masculine, singular - this (one)
• *estin*: present, active, indicative, 3rd singular - is
• *Huios*: nominative, masculine, singular - Son
• *agapētos*: nominative, masculine, singular - beloved
• *en*: preposition with dative - in
• *eudokēsa*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st singular - I was well pleased
• *akouete*: present, active, imperative, 2nd plural - hear/listen to

Word Meanings

• *lalountos*: speaking/talking/telling
• *nephelē*: cloud/vapor
• *phōteinē*: bright/luminous/radiant
• *epeskiasen*: overshadowed/enveloped/covered
• *phōnē*: voice/sound
• *Huios*: Son/descendant
• *agapētos*: beloved/dearly loved
• *eudokēsa*: I was well pleased/I took delight in/I approved

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.
• Deut 18:15 : 15 The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;
• Isa 42:1 : 1 See my servant, whom I am supporting, my loved one, in whom I take delight: I have put my spirit on him; he will give the knowledge of the true God to the nations.
• 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.
• Deut 18:19 : 19 And whoever does not give ear to my words which he will say in my name, will be responsible to me.
• Matt 12:18 : 18 See my servant, the man of my selection, my loved one in whom my soul is well pleased: I will put my Spirit on him, and he will make my decision clear to the Gentiles.
• Mark 1:11 : 11 And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
• Mark 9:7 : 7 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.
• Luke 3:22 : 22 The Holy Spirit came down in the form of a dove, and a voice came from heaven, saying, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
• John 3:35 : 35 The Father has love for the Son and has put all things into his hands.
• John 5:20-23 : 20 For the Father has love for the Son and lets him see everything which he does: and he will let him see greater works than these so that you may be full of wonder. 21 In the same way, as the Father gives life to the dead, even so the Son gives life to those to whom he is pleased to give it. 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.
• 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 12:28-30 : 28 Father, give glory to your name. Then there came a voice out of heaven, saying, I have given it glory, and I will give it glory again. 29 Hearing the sound, a number of people who were there said that it was thunder: others said, An angel was talking to him. 30 Jesus said in answer, This voice came not for me but for you.
• John 15:9-9 : 9 Even as the Father has given me his love, so I have given my love to you: be ever in my love. 10 If you keep my laws, you will be ever in my love, even as I have kept my Father's laws, and am ever in his love.
• 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.
• Luke 9:34-35 : 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.
• John 3:16 : 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.
• 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;
• Job 38:1 : 1 And the Lord made answer to Job out of the storm-wind, and said,
• Ps 18:10-11 : 10 And he went in flight through the air, seated on a storm-cloud: going quickly on the wings of the wind. 11 He made the dark his secret place; his tent round him was the dark waters and thick clouds of the skies.
• Ps 81:7 : 7 You gave a cry in your trouble, and I made you free; I gave you an answer in the secret place of the thunder; I put you to the test at the waters of Meribah. (Selah.)
• Exod 19:19 : 19 And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.
• Exod 40:34-35 : 34 Then the cloud came down covering the Tent of meeting, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord; 35 So that Moses was not able to go into the Tent of meeting, because the cloud was resting on it, and the House was full of the glory of the Lord.
• Deut 4:11-12 : 11 And you came near, waiting at the foot of the mountain; and flames of fire went up from the mountain to the heart of heaven, with dark clouds, and all was black as night. 12 And the voice of the Lord came to you out of the fire: the sound of his words came to your ears but you saw no form; there was nothing but a voice.
• Deut 5:22 : 22 These words the Lord said to all of you together on the mountain, out of the heart of the fire, out of the cloud and the dark, with a great voice: and he said no more; he put them in writing on the two stones of the law and gave them to me.
• 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 9:3-6 : 3 And while he was journeying, he came near Damascus; and suddenly he saw a light from heaven shining round him; 4 And he went down on the earth, and a voice said to him, Saul, Saul, why are you attacking me so cruelly? 5 And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking: 6 But get up, and go into the town, and it will be made clear to you what you have to do.
• Eph 1:6 : 6 To the praise of the glory of his grace, which he freely gave to us in the Loved One:
• Col 1:13 : 13 Who has made us free from the power of evil and given us a place in the kingdom of the Son of his love;
• Heb 1:1-2 : 1 In times past the word of God came to our fathers through the prophets, in different parts and in different ways; 2 But now, at the end of these days, it has come to us through his Son, to whom he has given all things for a heritage, and through whom he made the order of the generations;
• Heb 2:1-3 : 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. 2 Because if the word which came through the angels was fixed, and in the past every evil act against God's orders was given its full punishment; 3 What will come on us, if we do not give our minds to such a great salvation? a salvation of which our fathers first had knowledge through the words of the Lord, and which was made certain to us by those to whom his words came;
• Heb 5:9 : 9 And when he had been made complete, he became the giver of eternal salvation to all those who are under his orders;
• 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.
• 2 Pet 1:16-17 : 16 For when we gave you news of the power and the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, our teaching was not based on stories put together by art, but we were eye-witnesses of his glory. 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.
• 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.
• Isa 42:21 : 21 It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.