2 Corinthians 11:27

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

I have labored and toiled and often gone without sleep; I have known hunger and thirst and have often gone without food; I have been cold and naked.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἐν κόπῳ καὶ μόχθῳ, ἐν ἀγρυπνίαις πολλάκις, ἐν λιμῷ καὶ δίψει, ἐν νηστείαις πολλάκις, ἐν ψύχει καὶ γυμνότητι.

Transliteration

In kopō and mochthō, in agrypniais pollakis, in limō and dipsei, in nēsteiais pollakis, in psychei and gymnotēti.

Grammar Details

• *kopō*: dative, masculine, singular - labor/toil
• *mochthō*: dative, masculine, singular - hardship/trouble
• *agrypniais*: dative, feminine, plural - sleeplessness/watchings
• *pollakis*: adverb - often/frequently
• *limō*: dative, masculine, singular - hunger/famine
• *dipsei*: dative, feminine, singular - thirst
• *nēsteiais*: dative, feminine, plural - fastings
• *psychei*: dative, neuter, singular - cold
• *gymnotēti*: dative, feminine, singular - nakedness/insufficient clothing

Word Meanings

• *kopō*: labor/toil/trouble
• *mochthō*: hardship/trouble/difficulty
• *agrypniais*: sleeplessness/watchings/staying awake
• *limō*: hunger/famine
• *dipsei*: thirst
• *nēsteiais*: fastings/going without food
• *psychei*: cold/coldness
• *gymnotēti*: nakedness/insufficient clothing/exposure

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  In weariness and toil, in sleeplessness often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  in laboure and travayle in watchynge often in honger in thirst in fastynges often in colde and in nakednes.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  in laboure & trauayle, in moch watchinges, in honger and thyrst, in moch fastinges in colde and nakednesse:

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  In wearinesse and painefulnesse, in watching often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in colde and in nakednesse.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  In labour & trauayle, in watchinges often, in hunger and thirst, in fastinges often, in colde and nakednesse,

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  in laboriousness and painfulness, in watchings many times, in hunger and thirst, in fastings many times, in cold and nakedness;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  `in' labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  [ in] labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  In hard work and weariness, in frequent watchings, going without food and drink, cold and in need of clothing.

• World English Bible (2000)

  in labor and travail, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, and in cold and nakedness.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  in hard work and toil, through many sleepless nights, in hunger and thirst, many times without food, in cold and without enough clothing.

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 6:5 : 5 in beatings, in imprisonments, in riots, in labors, in sleepless nights, in hunger;
• Phil 4:12 : 12 I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. In every circumstance, I have learned the secret of being content—whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in need.
• 1 Thess 2:9 : 9 Surely you remember, brothers and sisters, our labor and toil. We worked night and day so that we would not be a burden to any of you while we proclaimed to you the gospel of God.
• 2 Thess 3:8 : 8 We did not eat anyone’s bread without paying for it. Instead, we worked with toil and hardship night and day so as not to be a burden to any of you.
• 1 Cor 4:11-12 : 11 To this very hour we go hungry and thirsty, we are poorly clothed, we are brutally treated, and we are homeless. 12 We work hard with our own hands. When we are insulted, we bless; when we are persecuted, we endure it.
• 1 Cor 7:5 : 5 Do not deprive one another, except by mutual agreement for a time, so that you may devote yourselves to prayer. Then come together again so that Satan will not tempt you because of your lack of self-control.
• Acts 20:31 : 31 Therefore, be watchful, remembering that for three years I never stopped admonishing each one of you with tears, night and day.
• Acts 20:34-35 : 34 You yourselves know that these hands of mine provided for my needs and those of my companions. 35 In all this, I have shown you that by working hard in this way, we must help the weak and remember the words of the Lord Jesus, who said, 'It is more blessed to give than to receive.'
• Rom 8:35-36 : 35 Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall trouble or hardship or persecution or famine or nakedness or danger or sword? 36 As it is written: 'For Your sake we face death all day long; we are considered as sheep to be slaughtered.'
• Jer 38:9 : 9 "My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will die from hunger, since there is no longer any bread in the city."
• Acts 13:2-3 : 2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, 'Set apart for me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.' 3 Then, after fasting and praying, they laid their hands on them and sent them off.
• Acts 14:23 : 23 They appointed elders for them in each church and, with prayer and fasting, committed them to the Lord in whom they had believed.
• Heb 11:37 : 37 They were stoned, they were sawed in two, and they were killed with the sword. They went about in sheepskins and goatskins, destitute, persecuted, and mistreated.
• Jas 2:15-16 : 15 If a brother or sister is without clothes and lacks daily food, 16 and one of you says to them, 'Go in peace, keep warm and be well fed,' but does not provide for their physical needs, what good is it?
• 2 Cor 11:23 : 23 Are they servants of Christ? (I am out of my mind to talk like this.) I am more so: in labors more abundant, in stripes beyond measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths often.
• Acts 20:5-9 : 5 These men went ahead and waited for us at Troas. 6 But we sailed away from Philippi after the days of Unleavened Bread, and in five days we joined them at Troas, where we stayed seven days. 7 On the first day of the week, we were gathered together to break bread, and Paul began to speak to them. Since he was planning to leave the next day, he continued his message until midnight. 8 There were many lamps in the upstairs room where we were gathered together. 9 A young man named Eutychus, who was sitting in a window, fell into a deep sleep as Paul kept talking on and on. Overcome by sleep, he fell from the third floor and was picked up dead. 10 But Paul went down, threw himself on him, and put his arms around him. He said, 'Do not be alarmed, for his life is still in him.' 11 Then Paul went back upstairs, broke bread and ate. After talking with them for a long time, until daybreak, he left.