1 Corinthians 2:3

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And I was amonge you in weaknes, and in feare, and in moch tremblinge:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ ἐγὼ ἐν ἀσθενείᾳ, καὶ ἐν φόβῳ, καὶ ἐν τρόμῳ πολλῷ ἐγενόμην πρὸς ὑμᾶς.

Transliteration

And I (egō) in astheneia, and in phobō, and in tromō pollō egenomēn pros you.

Grammar Details

• *egō*: nominative singular personal pronoun - I
• *astheneia*: dative feminine singular - weakness
• *phobō*: dative masculine singular - fear
• *tromō*: dative masculine singular - trembling
• *pollō*: dative masculine singular adjective - much/great
• *egenomēn*: aorist middle indicative, 1st person singular - I became/was
• *pros*: preposition with accusative - to/toward/with

Word Meanings

• *astheneia*: weakness/illness/frailty
• *phobō*: fear/dread/terror
• *tromō*: trembling/quaking/shaking
• *egenomēn*: became/was/came to be

Referenced Verses

• 2 Cor 13:4 : 4 And though he was crucified in weaknes, yet lyueth he in the power of God. And though we are weake in him, yet lyue we with him in the power of God amonge you.
• 2 Cor 13:9 : 9 We are glad whan we are weake, & ye stronge: & the same also we wysshe for, namely yor perfectnesse.
• Gal 4:13-14 : 13 For ye knowe how that in weaknes after ye flesh I preached ye Gospell vnto you at the first: 14 and my tentacion which I suffred after the flesh, ye despysed not, nether abhorred, but receaued me as an angell of God, yee euen as Christ Iesus.
• Acts 17:6-9 : 6 But whan they founde them not, they drue Iason, and certayne brethren vnto the rulers of the cite, and cryed: These that trouble all the worlde, are come hither also, 7 whom Iason hath receaued preuely. And these all do contrary to the decrees of the Emperoure, sayenge, that there is another kynge, one Iesus. 8 They troubled the people, and the rulers of the cite, that herde this. 9 And whan they had receaued a sufficient answere of Iason and of the other, they let them go. 10 But the brethren immediatly sent awaye Paul and Sylas by night vnto Berea. Whan they came there, they wete in to the synagoge of the Iewes 11 (for they were the Eldest amonge the at Thessalonica) which receaued the worde maruelous wyllingly, and searched the scriptures daylie, whether it were euen so. 12 Then beleued many of them, and worshipfull wemen off the Grekes, and men not a fewe.
• Acts 18:6 : 6 But wha they sayde cotrary and blasphemed, he shoke his rayment, and sayde vnto them: Youre bloude be vpon youre awne heade. From hence forth I go blamelesse vnto the Gentyles.
• Acts 18:12 : 12 But whan Gallio was ruler of the countre of Achaia, the Iewes made insurreccion wt one acorde agaynst Paul, & broughte him before the iudgment seate,
• Acts 20:18-19 : 18 Whan they were come to him, he sayde vnto them: Ye knowe sence the first daye that I came in to Asia, after what maner I haue bene with you at all tyme, 19 and serued ye LORDE with all humblenesse of mynde, and with many teares and tentacions, which happened vnto me by ye layenges of wayte of the Iewes,
• 1 Cor 4:10-13 : 10 We are fooles for Christes sake, but ye are wyse in Christ: We weake, but ye stroge: Ye honorable, but we despysed. 11 Euen vnto this daye we hoger and thyrst, and are naked, and are boffetted with fystes, and haue no certayne dwellinge place, 12 and laboure and worke with oure awne handes. We are reuyled, and yet we blesse: we are persecuted, and suffre it: 13 We are euell spoken of, and we praye: We are become as it were the very outswepinges of ye worlde, yee the of scowringe of all men vnto this tyme.
• 2 Cor 4:1 : 1 Therfore seynge we haue soch an office (euen as mercy is come vpon vs) we faynte not,
• 2 Cor 4:7-9 : 7 But this treasure haue we in earthen vessels, that ye power which excelleth might be of God, and not of vs. 8 We are troubled on euery syde, yet are we not without shift. We are in pouertie, but not vtterly without somwhat. 9 We are persecuted, but we are not forsaken. We are oppressed, neuertheles we perish not. 10 We allwayes beare aboute in oure body the dyenge of the LORDE Iesus yt the life also of the LORDE Iesus might appeare in oure body. 11 For we which lyue, are alwayes delyuered vnto death for Iesus sake, that the life also of Iesus might appeare in oure mortall flesh. 12 Therfore is death now mightie in vs, but life in you.
• 2 Cor 4:16 : 16 Therfore are we not weery, but though or outwarde man be corrupte, yet the inwarde is renewed daye by daye.
• 2 Cor 6:4 : 4 but in all thinges let vs behaue oure selues as the mynisters of God: in moch pacience, in troubles, in necessities, in anguysshes,
• 2 Cor 7:5 : 5 For whan we were come into Macedonia, oure flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on euery syde: outwarde was fightinge, inwarde was feare.
• 2 Cor 10:1 : 1 I Paul my selfe beseke you by the mekenesse and softnesse off Christ, which when I am present amonge you, am of small reputacion, but am bolde towarde you beynge absent.
• 2 Cor 10:10 : 10 For the pistles (saye they) are sore and stronge, but his bodely presence is weake, and his speache rude.
• 2 Cor 11:29-30 : 29 Who is weake, and I be not weake? Who is offended, & I burne not? 30 Yf I must nedes make my boast, I wil boast my selfe of myne infirmyte.
• 2 Cor 12:5-9 : 5 Here of will I boast, but of my selfe wil I make no boast, excepte it be of myne infirmyties. 6 And though I wolde boast my selfe, I dyd not foolishly, for I wolde saye the trueth. But I refrayne my selfe, lest eny ma shulde thinke of me aboue yt he seyth in me, or heareth of me. 7 And lest I shulde exalte my selfe out of measure because of the hye reuelacions, there is a warnynge geuen vnto my flesh, euen ye messaunger of Satan, to buffet me, that I shulde not exalte my selfe out off measure: 8 for ye which I besoughte the LORDE thryse, that it mighte departe fro me. 9 And he sayde vnto me: My grace is sufficiet for the. For my strength is made perfecte thorow weaknes. Very glad therfore wil I reioyse in my weaknesses, that the strength of Christ maye dwell in me. 10 Therfore am I contente in infirmities, in rebukes, in necessities, in persecucions, in anguysshes for Christes sake: for wha I am weake, the am I stroge.