Ephesians 1:17

Coverdale Bible (1535)

that ye God of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, the father of glory maye geue vnto you the sprete of wyssdome, and open vnto you the knowlege of himselfe,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἵνα ὁ Θεὸς τοῦ Κυρίου ἡμῶν Ἰησοῦ Χριστοῦ, ὁ Πατὴρ τῆς δόξης, δῴη ὑμῖν πνεῦμα σοφίας καὶ ἀποκαλύψεως ἐν ἐπιγνώσει αὐτοῦ:

Transliteration

That the Theos of the Kyriou of us Iēsou Christou, the Patēr of the doxēs, might dōē to you pneuma sophias and apokalypseōs in epignōsei of him:

Grammar Details

• *Hina*: subordinating conjunction - purpose
• *Theos*: nominative, masculine, singular - subject
• *Kyriou*: genitive, masculine, singular - possessive
• *hēmōn*: genitive, plural - possessive
• *Iēsou Christou*: genitive, masculine, singular - apposition
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - apposition
• *doxēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - possessive
• *dōē*: aorist active optative, 3rd singular - main verb
• *hymin*: dative, plural - indirect object
• *pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - direct object
• *sophias*: genitive, feminine, singular - descriptive
• *apokalypseōs*: genitive, feminine, singular - descriptive
• *en*: preposition governing dative - sphere
• *epignōsei*: dative, feminine, singular - sphere
• *autou*: genitive, masculine, singular - objective genitive

Word Meanings

• *Theos*: God/deity
• *Kyriou*: Lord/master
• *Iēsou*: Jesus
• *Christou*: Christ/Messiah/Anointed One
• *Patēr*: Father
• *doxēs*: glory/splendor/honor
• *dōē*: might give/grant
• *pneuma*: spirit/breath/wind
• *sophias*: wisdom/knowledge/understanding
• *apokalypseōs*: revelation/disclosure/unveiling
• *epignōsei*: full knowledge/recognition/acknowledgment

Referenced Verses

• Isa 11:2 : 2 The sprete of the LORDE shal light vpon it: the sprete of wysdome, and vnderstondinge: the sprete of councel, and strength: ye sprete of knowlege, and of the feare of God:
• Prov 2:5 : 5 The shalt thou vnderstonde ye feare of the LORDE, and fynde ye knowlege of God.
• 2 Pet 1:3 : 3 For so moch as his godly power hath geuen vs all thinges (that pertayne vnto life and godlynes) thorow the knowlege of him that hath called vs by his owne glorie and power,
• Jas 3:17-18 : 17 But the wissdom that is fro aboue, is fyrst pure, the peasable, gentle, and easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good frutes, without iudgynge, and without simulacion: 18 yee, and the frute of rightewesnes is sowen in peace, of the that mayntene peace.
• Col 1:9-9 : 9 For this cause we also, sence the daye yt we herde of it, ceasse not to praye for you, & desyre that ye mighte be fulfylled with the knowlege of his will, in all wyssdome and spirituall vnderstondinge, 10 that ye mighte walke worthy off the LORDE, to please him in all thinges, and to be frutefull in all good workes, and growe in the knowlege of God:
• 2 Pet 3:18 : 18 But growe in grace, and in the knowlege of oure LORDE and Sauioure Iesus Christ. To him be prayse now and for euer, Amen.
• John 17:25-26 : 25 Righteous father, the worlde hath not knowne ye, but I haue knowne ye: and these haue knowne, that thou hast sent me. 26 And I haue declared thy name vnto them, & wyl declare it, yt the loue wherwith thou hast loued me, maye be in the, & I in them.
• John 20:17 : 17 Iesus sayde vnto her: Touche me not, for I am not yet ascended vnto my father. But go thou yi waye vnto my brethre & saye vnto the: I ascede vp vnto my father and yor father: to my God, & yor God.
• 1 Cor 14:6 : 6 But now brethren yf I come vnto you, and speake with tunges, what shal I profet you, excepte I speake vnto you ether by reuelacion or by knowlege, or by prophecienge, or by doctryne?
• 2 Cor 12:1 : 1 It profiteth me nothinge (no doute) to boaste. Neuertheles I wil come to ye visions and reuelacions off the LORDE.
• Eph 1:3 : 3 Blessed be God the father of oure LORDE Iesus Christ, which hath blessed vs wt all maner of spirituall blessynge in heauenly thynges by Christ
• Eph 3:5 : 5 which (mystery) in tymes past was not opened vnto the childre of me as it is now declared to his holy Apostles and prophetes by the sprete: namely,
• Eph 3:18-19 : 18 maye be able to coprehende with all sayntes, what is the bredth, and the length, and the deepth, and the heyth: 19 and to knowe the loue of Christ, which loue yet passeth all knowlege: that ye maye be fylled with all maner of fulnesse of God.
• Jer 9:24 : 24 But who so wil reioyse, let him reioyse in this, that he vnderstodeth, and knoweth me: for I am the LORDE, which do mercie, equite and rightuousnes vpon earth. Therfore haue I pleasure in soch thinges, saieth ye LORDE.
• Ps 24:10 : 10 Who is this kynge off glory? It is the LORDE of hoostes, he is the kynge of glory. Sela.
• Dan 2:28-30 : 28 Only God in heaue ca open secretes, and he it is, that sheweth the kinge Nabuchodonosor, what is for to come in the latter dayes. Thy dreame, and that which thou hast sene in thyne heade vpon thy bed, is this: 29 O kynge, thou didest cast in thy mynde, what shulde come herafter: So he that is the opener off mysteries, telleth the, what is for to come. 30 As for me, this secrete is not shewed me, for eny wi?dome that I haue, more then eny other lyuynge: but only that I might shewe the kynge the interpretacion, & that he might knowe the thoughtes off his owne herte.
• Dan 5:11 : 11 For why: there is a man in ye kyngdome, that hath the sprete off the holy goddes within him, as it was sene in thy fathers dayes. He hath vnderstondinge ad wysdome like the goddes. Yee the kynge Nabuchodonosor thy father made this man chefe of the soythsayers, charmers, Caldees and deuel coniurers:
• Luke 2:14 : 14 Glory be vnto God an hye, & peace vpon earth, and vnto men a good wyll.
• 2 Tim 2:25 : 25 the euell, one yt can with mekenesse enfourme them yt resist: yf God at eny tyme wyl geue them repentaunce for to knowe the trueth,
• Titus 1:1 : 1 Pavl the seruaunt of God, and an Apostle off Iesus Christ, to preach the faith off Gods electe, and the knowlege of ye trueth, which ledeth vnto godlynes,
• Jas 2:1 : 1 Brethren, haue not the faith of oure LORDE Iesus Christ ye LORDE of glory in respecte of persons.
• 1 John 2:3-4 : 3 And hereby are we sure that we knowe him, yf we kepe his comaundemetes. 4 He that sayeth: I knowe him, and kepeth not his comaundemetes, is a lyar, and the trueth is not in him,
• Rev 7:12 : 12 sayenge, amen: Blessynge and glory, wissdome and thakes, and honour, and power and might, be vnto oure God for euermore Amen.
• Matt 11:25 : 25 At ye same tyme Iesus answered, and sayde: I prayse the (O father and LORDE of heauen and earth) that thou hast hid these thinges from the wyse and prudent, and opened the vnto babes.
• Matt 11:27 : 27 All thinges are geuen ouer vnto me of my father: and no ma knoweth the sonne, but the father: nether knoweth eny man the father, saue the sonne, and he to whom the sonne wil open it.
• Matt 16:17 : 17 And Iesus answered, & saide vnto hi: Blessed art thou Symo ye sonne of Ionas, for flesh & bloude hath not opened yt vnto the, but my father yt is in heaue.
• Dan 10:1 : 1 In the thirde yeare of kinge Cirus of Persia, there was shewed vnto Daniel (otherwise called Balthasar) a matter, yee a true matter, but it is yet a longe tyme vnto it. He vnderstode the matter well, and perceaued what the vision was.
• Ps 29:3 : 3 It is the LORDE that commaundeth the waters: It is the glorious God that maketh ye thonder:
• Gen 41:38-39 : 38 And Pharao sayde vnto his seruauntes? How might we fynde soch a man, in whom is the sprete of God? 39 And sayde vnto Iosep: For so moch as God hath shewed ye all this, there is none of soch vnderstondinge & wysdome as thou.
• 1 Chr 29:11 : 11 vnto the belongeth worshippe and power, glory, victory & thankes: for all that is in heauen and earth, is thine: thine is ye kyngdome, and thou art exalted aboue all prynces.
• Ps 24:7 : 7 Sela. Open yor gates (o ye prices) let the euerlastinge dores be opened, yt ye kynge of glory maye come in.
• Jer 24:7 : 7 And I will geue them an herte, to knowe, how that I am the LORDE. They shalbe my people, and I wilbe their God, for they shal returne vnto me with their whole herte.
• Jer 31:34 : 34 And from thece forth shall no man teach his neghboure or his brother, and saye: knowe the LORDE: But they shall all knowe me, from the lowest vnto the hyest, saieth the LORDE. For I will forgeue their my?dedes, and wil neuer remembre their synnes eny more.
• Jer 2:11 : 11 whether the Gentiles themselues deale so falsly & vntruly with their goddes (which yet are no goddes in dede.) But my people hath geuen ouer their hie honoure, for a thinge that maye not helpe them.
• Rom 15:6 : 6 that ye beynge of one mynde, maye wt one mouth prayse God the father of oure LORDE Iesu Christ.
• 1 Cor 2:8 : 8 which none of ye rulers of this worlde knewe. For yf they had knowne it, they had not crucified the LORDE of glorye,
• 1 Cor 2:10 : 10 But God hath opened it vnto vs by his sprete. For the sprete searcheth out all thinges, yee euen the depenesses of the God heade.
• 1 Cor 12:8 : 8 To one is geuen thorow the sprete the vtteraunce of wissdome: to another is geuen the vtteraunce of knowlege acordinge to the same sprete:
• Acts 6:10 : 10 and they coulde not resiste the wyssdome and the sprete, out of the which he spake.
• Acts 7:2 : 2 He sayde: Deare brethren and fathers, herken to, The God of glorye appeared vnto or father Abraha, whyle he was yet in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Haran,
• John 8:54-55 : 54 Iesus answered: Yf I prayse myself, then is my prayse nothinge. But it is my father that prayseth me, which ye saye is youre God, 55 and ye knowe hi not: but I knowe him. And yf I shulde saye, I knowe him not, I shulde be a lyar, like vnto you. But I knowe him, and kepe his worde.
• John 14:17 : 17 euen ye sprete of trueth, whom ye worlde can not receaue, for it seyth him not, nether doth it knowe him: but ye knowe him, for he abydeth wt you, & shalbe in you
• John 14:26 : 26 But that comforter euen ye holy goost, who my father shal sende in my name, he shal teache you all thinges, & bringe all to youre remembraunce, what soeuer I haue tolde you.
• John 16:3 : 3 And soch thinges shal they do vnto you, because they haue nether knowne ye father ner yet me.
• John 17:3 : 3 But this is the life euerlastinge, that they knowe the (that thou onely art the true God) and whom thou hast sent, Iesus Christ.
• Rom 1:28 : 28 And as they regarded not to knowe God, euen so God gaue the vp in to a lewde mynde, to do those thinges which were not comly,
• Matt 6:13 : 13 And lede vs not in to teptacion: but delyuer vs from euell. For thyne is the kyngdome, and the power, and the glorye for euer. Amen.
• Luke 12:12 : 12 for the holy goost shal teach you in the same houre, what ye ought to saye.
• Luke 21:15 : 15 for I wil geue you mouth & wyssdome, agaynst the which all youre aduersaries shal not be able to speake ner to resist.
• Col 2:2-3 : 2 that their hertes mighte be comforted and knytt together in loue, to all riches of full vnderstodinge, which is in the knowlege of the mystery of God the father and of Christ, 3 in whom are hyd all the treasures of wyssdome and knowlege.