Luke 8:34

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

When those tending the pigs saw what had happened, they ran off and reported it in the town and countryside.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἰδόντες δὲ οἱ βόσκοντες τὸ γεγενημένον, ἔφυγον, καὶ ἀπελθόντες ἀπήγγειλαν εἰς τὴν πόλιν καὶ εἰς τοὺς ἀγρούς.

Transliteration

Idontes de the ones boskontes the gegenēmenon, ephygon, and apelthontes apēngeilan into the polin and into the agrous.

Grammar Details

• *Idontes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having seen
• *de*: postpositive conjunction - but/and/now
• *boskontes*: present active participle, nominative masculine plural - feeding/tending
• *gegenēmenon*: perfect middle/passive participle, accusative neuter singular - having happened
• *ephygon*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they fled/ran away
• *apelthontes*: aorist active participle, nominative masculine plural - having gone away
• *apēngeilan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - they reported/announced
• *polin*: accusative feminine singular - city
• *agrous*: accusative masculine plural - fields/countryside

Word Meanings

• *Idontes*: having seen/observed/perceived
• *boskontes*: feeding/tending/keeping
• *gegenēmenon*: having happened/occurred/taken place
• *ephygon*: fled/ran away/escaped
• *apelthontes*: having gone away/departed/left
• *apēngeilan*: reported/announced/told
• *polin*: city/town
• *agrous*: fields/countryside/farms

Other Translations

• King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

  When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

• KJV1611 – Modern English

  When those who fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

• King James Version 1611 (Original)

  When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

• American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

  And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and {G565} told it in the city and in the country.

• King James Version with Strong's Numbers

  When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

• Tyndale Bible (1526/1534)

  When the herdmen sawe what had chaunsed they fleed and tolde it in the cite and in the villages.

• Coverdale Bible (1535)

  But wha ye herdmen sawe what had chaunsed, they fled, and tolde it in the cite and in the vyllagies.

• Geneva Bible (1560)

  When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie and in the countrey.

• Bishops' Bible (1568)

  When the heardmen sawe what was done, they fled: and when they were departed, they tolde it in the citie, & in the villages.

• Authorized King James Version (1611)

  When they that fed [them] saw what was done, they fled, and went and told [it] in the city and in the country.

• Webster's Bible (1833)

  When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

• Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

  And those feeding `them', having seen what was come to pass, fled, and having gone, told `it' to the city, and to the fields;

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

• American Standard Version (1901)

  And when they that fed them saw what had come to pass, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

• Bible in Basic English (1941)

  And when the men who took care of them saw what had come about, they went quickly and gave news of it in the town and the country.

• World English Bible (2000)

  When those who fed them saw what had happened, they fled, and told it in the city and in the country.

• NET Bible® (New English Translation)

  When the herdsmen saw what had happened, they ran off and spread the news in the town and countryside.

Referenced Verses

• Matt 8:33 : 33 Those tending the pigs ran off and went into the city. There, they reported everything, including what had happened to the demon-possessed men.
• Matt 28:11 : 11 While they were on their way, some of the guards went into the city and reported to the chief priests everything that had happened.
• Mark 5:14 : 14 Those tending the pigs ran away and reported it in the town and the countryside. The people went out to see what had happened.
• Acts 19:16-17 : 16 Then the man in whom the evil spirit was leaped on them, overpowered them all, and prevailed against them, so that they fled out of the house naked and wounded. 17 This became known to all the Jews and Greeks living in Ephesus. Fear fell upon them all, and the name of the Lord Jesus was magnified.