Romans 9:17

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For the holy Writings say to Pharaoh, For this same purpose did I put you on high, so that I might make my power seen in you, and that there might be knowledge of my name through all the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ τῷ Φαραὼ, Ὅτι Εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐξήγειρά σε, ὅπως ἐνδείξωμαι ἐν σοὶ τὴν δύναμίν μου, καὶ ὅπως διαγγελῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.

Transliteration

For legei the graphē to Pharaō, That For auto touto exēgeira you, hopōs endeixōmai in you the dynamin of me, and hopōs diangelē the onoma of me in pasē the gē.

Grammar Details

• *legei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - says
• *graphē*: nominative, feminine, singular - scripture
• *Pharaō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Pharaoh
• *auto touto*: accusative, neuter, singular - this very thing/for this very purpose
• *exēgeira*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I raised up
• *hopōs*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *endeixōmai*: aorist, subjunctive, middle, 1st person singular - I might display
• *dynamin*: accusative, feminine, singular - power
• *diangelē*: aorist, subjunctive, passive, 3rd person singular - might be proclaimed
• *onoma*: nominative, neuter, singular - name
• *pasē*: adjective, dative, feminine, singular - all
• *gē*: dative, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *graphē*: scripture/writing
• *exēgeira*: I raised up/I brought you to this position
• *endeixōmai*: I might display/show/demonstrate
• *dynamin*: power/might/strength
• *diangelē*: might be proclaimed/announced/declared
• *onoma*: name/reputation/character
• *pasē*: all/whole/entire
• *gē*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:16 : 16 But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.
• Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lord has made everything for his purpose, even the sinner for the day of evil.
• John 17:26 : 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.
• Rom 11:4 : 4 But what answer does God make to him? I have still seven thousand men whose knees have not been bent to Baal.
• Gal 3:8 : 8 And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.
• Gal 3:22 : 22 However, the holy Writings have put all things under sin, so that that for which God gave the undertaking, based on faith in Jesus Christ, might be given to those who have such faith.
• Gal 4:30 : 30 What then do the Writings say? Send away the servant-woman and her son; for the son of the servant-woman will not have a part in the heritage with the son of the free woman.
• Isa 10:5-6 : 5 Ho! Assyrian, the rod of my wrath, the instrument of my punishment! 6 I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.
• Isa 37:20 : 20 But now, O Lord our God, give us salvation from his hand, so that it may be clear to all the kingdoms of the earth that you, and you only, are the Lord.
• Isa 45:1-3 : 1 The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut; 2 I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two: 3 And I will give you the stores of the dark, and the wealth of secret places, so that you may be certain that I am the Lord, who gave you your name, even the God of Israel.
• Jer 27:6-7 : 6 And now I have given all these lands into the hands of Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant; and I have given the beasts of the field to him for his use. 7 And all the nations will be servants to him and to his son and to his son's son, till the time comes for his land to be overcome: and then a number of nations and great kings will take it for their use.
• Dan 4:22 : 22 It is you, O King, who have become great and strong: for your power is increased and stretching up to heaven, and your rule to the end of the earth.
• Dan 5:18-21 : 18 As for you, O King, the Most High God gave to Nebuchadnezzar, your father, the kingdom and great power and glory and honour: 19 And because of the great power he gave him, all peoples and nations and languages were shaking in fear before him: some he put to death and others he kept living, at his pleasure, lifting up some and putting others down as it pleased him. 20 But when his heart was lifted up and his spirit became hard with pride, he was put down from his place as king, and they took his glory from him: 21 And he was sent out from among the sons of men; and his heart was made like the beasts', and he was living with the asses of the fields; he had grass for his food like the oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till he was certain that the Most High is ruler in the kingdom of men, and gives power over it to anyone at his pleasure.
• Exod 10:1-2 : 1 And the Lord said to Moses, Go in to Pharaoh: for I have made his heart and the hearts of his servants hard, so that I may let my signs be seen among them: 2 And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.
• Exod 14:17-18 : 17 And I will make the heart of the Egyptians hard, and they will go in after them: and I will be honoured over Pharaoh and over his army, his war-carriages, and his horsemen. 18 And the Egyptians will see that I am the Lord, when I get honour over Pharaoh and his war-carriages and his horsemen.
• Exod 15:14-15 : 14 Hearing of you the peoples were shaking in fear: the people of Philistia were gripped with pain. 15 The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.
• Exod 18:10-11 : 10 And Jethro said, Praise be to the Lord, who has taken you out of the hand of Pharaoh and out of the hand of the Egyptians; freeing the people from the yoke of the Egyptians. 11 Now I am certain that the Lord is greater than all gods, for he has overcome them in their pride.
• Josh 2:9-9 : 9 And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us; 10 For we have had news of how the Lord made the Red Sea dry before you when you came out of Egypt; and what you did to the two kings of the Amorites, on the other side of Jordan, to Sihon and Og, whom you gave up to the curse.
• Josh 9:9 : 9 And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The Lord gives wealth and takes a man's goods from him: crushing men down and again lifting them up; 8 Lifting the poor out of the dust, and him who is in need out of the lowest place, to give them their place among rulers, and for their heritage the seat of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lord's and he has made them the base of the world.
• 1 Sam 4:8 : 8 Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.
• Esth 4:14 : 14 If at this time you say nothing, then help and salvation will come to the Jews from some other place, but you and your father's family will come to destruction: and who is to say that you have not come to the kingdom even for such a time as this?
• Ps 83:17-18 : 17 Let them be overcome and troubled for ever; let them be put to shame and come to destruction; 18 So that men may see that you only, whose name is Yahweh, are Most High over all the earth.