Matthew 24:29

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Immediatly after the tribulation of those dayes, shal the sunne be darkened, and the moone shall not geue her lyght, and the starres shall fall from heauen, and the powers of heauen shalbe shaken.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Εὐθέως δὲ μετὰ τὴν θλῖψιν τῶν ἡμερῶν ἐκείνων ὁ ἥλιος σκοτισθήσεται, καὶ ἡ σελήνη οὐ δώσει τὸ φέγγος αὐτῆς, καὶ οἱ ἀστέρες πεσοῦνται ἀπὸ τοῦ οὐρανοῦ, καὶ αἱ δυνάμεις τῶν οὐρανῶν σαλευθήσονται:

Transliteration

But immediately after the thlipsin of the hēmerōn those the hēlios skotisthēsetai, and the selēnē not dōsei the phengos of her, and the asteres pesountai from the ouranou, and the dynameis of the ouranōn saleuthēsontai:

Grammar Details

• *thlipsin*: accusative feminine singular - tribulation/affliction
• *hēmerōn*: genitive feminine plural - of days
• *hēlios*: nominative masculine singular - sun
• *skotisthēsetai*: future passive, 3rd person singular - will be darkened
• *selēnē*: nominative feminine singular - moon
• *dōsei*: future active, 3rd person singular - will give
• *phengos*: accusative neuter singular - light
• *asteres*: nominative masculine plural - stars
• *pesountai*: future middle, 3rd person plural - will fall
• *ouranou*: genitive masculine singular - heaven/sky
• *dynameis*: nominative feminine plural - powers
• *ouranōn*: genitive masculine plural - of heavens
• *saleuthēsontai*: future passive, 3rd person plural - will be shaken

Word Meanings

• *thlipsin*: tribulation/affliction/distress
• *hēmerōn*: days/times
• *hēlios*: sun
• *skotisthēsetai*: will be darkened/obscured
• *selēnē*: moon
• *dōsei*: will give/provide/grant
• *phengos*: light/brightness/radiance
• *asteres*: stars/celestial bodies
• *pesountai*: will fall/drop/descend
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky/firmament
• *dynameis*: powers/forces/authorities
• *ouranōn*: heavens/skies
• *saleuthēsontai*: will be shaken/agitated/disturbed

Referenced Verses

• Amos 8:9 : 9 And in that day, sayth the Lord God, I will euen cause the sunne to go downe at noone, and I wil darken the earth in the cleare day.
• Isa 24:23 : 23 The moone shalbe abashed, and the sunne ashamed, when the Lorde of hoastes shal raigne in mount Sion and in Hierusalem with worship, and in the sight of suche as shalbe of his counsell.
• Isa 13:10 : 10 For the starres and planettes of heauen shall not geue their light, the sunne shalbe darkened in the rising, and the moone shall not shine with her light.
• Joel 3:15 : 15 The sunne and the moone shalbe darkned, and the starres shall withdrawe their light.
• Rev 6:12-17 : 12 And I behelde when he had opened the sixt seale, and loe there was a great earthquake, & the sunne was as blacke as sackcloth made of heere, & the moone waxed all euen as blood: 13 And the starres of heauen fell vnto the earth, euen as a figge tree casteth her vntimely figges when she is shaken of a myghtie wynde. 14 And heauen vanished awaye as a scroule when it is roulled together, and all mountaynes and yles were moued out of their places. 15 And the kynges of the earth, and the great men, and the ryche men, and the chiefe capitaines, and the myghtie men, and euery bonde man, and euery free man, hyd them selues in dennes and in rockes of the hylles: 16 And sayde to the hylles & rockes, fall on vs, and hyde vs from the presence of him that sitteth on the throne, and from the wrath of the lambe: 17 For the great day of his wrath is come: and who is able to endure?
• Rev 8:12 : 12 And the fourth angell blewe, and the thirde part of the sunne was smytten, and the thirde part of the moone, and the thirde part of starres, so that the thirde part of them was darkened: and the day was smitten, that the third part of it shoulde not shyne, and lykewise the nyght.
• 2 Pet 3:10 : 10 Neuerthelesse the day of the Lorde wyll come as a theefe in the nyght, in the which the heauens shal passe away with a noyse, and the elementes shall melt with heate, the earth also and the workes that are therein shall burne.
• Joel 2:10 : 10 The earth shall quake before him, the heauens shall tremble, the sunne and the moone shalbe darke, and the starres shall withdrawe their shinyng.
• Joel 2:30-31 : 30 And I will shewe wonders in heauen and in earth, blood, and fire, and pillers of smoke. 31 The sunne shalbe turned into darknesse, and the moone into blood, before that great and terrible day of the Lord come.
• Dan 7:11-12 : 11 Then toke I heede therunto, because of the voyce of the proude words which the horne spake: I behelde till the beast was slaine, and his body destroyed, and geuen to be brent in the fire. 12 As concerning the other beastes, they had their dominion taken away, but their liues were prolonged for a certaine time and season.
• Isa 34:4 : 4 All the starres of heauen shall waste, and the heauens shall folde together lyke a roll, and all the starres therof shall fall, lyke as the leaues fall from the vines and figge trees.
• Acts 2:19-20 : 19 And I wyll shewe wonders in heauen aboue, and tokens in the earth beneath, blood, and fyre, and the vapour of smoke. 20 The Sunne shalbe turned into darknesse, and the Moone into blood, before that great and notable day of the Lord come.
• Amos 5:20 : 20 Shall not the day of the Lorde be darkenesse, and not light? euen darkenesse and no light in it.
• Zeph 1:14-15 : 14 For the great day of the Lorde is at hande, it is harde by, and commeth on a pace, euen the bitter voyce of the Lordes day, then shall the strong man crye out. 15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and heauinesse, a day of vtter destruction and miserie, a darke & glowming day, a cloudy and stormie day.
• Matt 24:8 : 8 All these are the begynnynges of sorowes.
• Matt 24:21 : 21 For then shalbe great tribulation, such as was not since the begynnyng of the worlde, to this tyme, nor shalbe.
• Mark 13:24-25 : 24 Moreouer, in those dayes, after that tribulation, the sunne shall waxe darke, and the moone shall not geue her light. 25 And the starres of heauen, shall fall: and the powers which are in heauen, shalbe shaken.
• Luke 21:25-26 : 25 And there shalbe signes in the sunne and in the moone, & in the starres: and vpon the earth trouble among the nations, with perplexitie. The sea and the water shall rore. 26 And mens heartes shal fayle them for feare, and for loking after those thinges which shall come on the world: For the powers of heauen shalbe shaken.
• Jer 4:23-28 : 23 I haue loked vpon the earth, and see it was waste and voyde: I loked towarde heauen, and it had no shine. 24 I behelde the mountaynes, and lo, they trembled, and all the hylles were in a feare. 25 I loked about me, and there was no body: and all the birdes of the ayre were away. 26 I marked well, and the plowed fielde was become waste, yea all their cities were broken downe at the presence of the Lord and indignation of his wrath. 27 For thus hath the Lorde saide: The whole lande shalbe desolate, yet wyll I not then haue done. 28 And therfore shall the earth mourne, and the heauen be sorie aboue: for the thyng that I haue spoken to the prophetes, purposed, and taken vpon me to do, shall not repent me, and I wyll not go from it.
• Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 When thou art put out, I wyll couer the heauen, and make his starres dim: I wyll spreade a cloude ouer the sunne, and the moone shall not geue her light. 8 All the lightes of heauen wyll I make darke for thee: and bring darkenesse vpon thy lande, saith the Lorde God.