Galatians 4:24

Coverdale Bible (1535)

These wordes betoken somwhat. For these wemen are the two Testamentes: The one from the mount Sina, that gendreth vnto bondage, which is Agar.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἅτινά ἐστιν ἀλληγορούμενα: αὗται γάρ εἰσιν αἱ δύο διαθῆκαι· μία μὲν ἀπὸ ὄρους Σινᾶ, εἰς δουλείαν γεννῶσα, ἥτις ἐστὶν Ἁγάρ.

Transliteration

Which things estin allēgoroumena: these for eisin the two diathēkai; one men apo orous Sina, into douleian gennōsa, which estin Hagar

Grammar Details

• *estin*: present indicative, 3rd person singular - is
• *allēgoroumena*: present passive participle, nominative, neuter, plural - being allegorized
• *eisin*: present indicative, 3rd person plural - they are
• *diathēkai*: nominative, feminine, plural - covenants/testaments
• *men*: particle - on the one hand
• *apo*: preposition with genitive - from
• *orous*: genitive, neuter, singular - mountain
• *Sina*: proper noun, genitive - Sinai
• *douleian*: accusative, feminine, singular - slavery/bondage
• *gennōsa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - bearing/giving birth to
• *Hagar*: proper noun - Hagar

Word Meanings

• *allēgoroumena*: being allegorized/spoken figuratively
• *diathēkai*: covenants/testaments/arrangements
• *orous*: mountain/hill
• *douleian*: slavery/bondage/servitude
• *gennōsa*: bearing/giving birth to/producing

Referenced Verses

• 1 Cor 10:11 : 11 All these thinges happened vnto the for ensamples, but they are wrytte to warne vs, vpon whom the ende of ye worlde is come.
• Gen 21:9-9 : 9 And Sara sawe the sonne of Agar the Egipcian (whom she had borne vnto Abraham) that he was a mocker, 10 and sayde vnto Abraham: Cast out this bonde mayden and hir sonne, for this bonde maydes sonne shall not be heyre wt my sonne Isaac. 11 This worde displeased Abraham sore, because of his sonne. 12 Neuertheles God sayde vnto him: let it not displease the because of the childe and the hand mayde: What so euer Sara hath sayde vnto the, folowe it, for in Isaac shall the sede be called vnto the. 13 As for the honde maydens sonne, I wyll make a people of him also, because he is of thy sede.
• Hos 11:10 : 10 The LORDE roareth like a lyon, that they maye folowe him: Yee as a lyon roareth he, that they maye be afrayed, like the children of the see:
• Matt 13:35 : 35 yt the thinge might be fulfilled, which was spoke by ye prophet, sayenge: I wil open my mouth in parables, and wil speake out the secretes from the begynnynge of the worlde.
• Luke 22:19-20 : 19 And he toke the bred, gaue thankes, and brake it, and gaue it them, and sayde: This is my body, which shalbe geuen for you. This do in the remembraunce of me. 20 Likewyse also the cuppe, after they had supped, and sayde: This cuppe is the new Testamet in my bloude, which shalbe shed for you.
• Rom 8:15 : 15 are Gods childre: for ye haue not receaued the sprete of bondage to feare eny more, but ye haue receaued ye sprete of adopcion, wherby we crye: Abba, deare father.
• 1 Cor 10:4 : 4 and dyd all drynke of one spirituall drynke: but they dronke of the spirituall rocke that folowed the, which rocke was Christ.
• Gen 25:12 : 12 This is the generacion of Ismael Abrahams sonne, whom Agar Saras mayde the Egipcian bare vnto him.
• Deut 33:2 : 2 and saide: The LORDE came from Sinai, and rose vp vnto the from Seir. He appeared fro mount Paran, and came wt many thousande sayntes. At his righte hande is there a lawe of fyre for them:
• Ezek 20:49 : 49 Then sayde I: O LORDE, they wil saye of me: Tush, they are but fables, that he telleth.
• Gal 3:15-21 : 15 Brethren, I wil speake after the maner of men. Though it be but a mas Testamet, yet no man despyseth it, or addeth eny thinge therto, whan it is confirmed. 16 To Abraham and his sede were the promyses made. He sayeth not: In the sedes, as in many, but in thy sede, as in one, which is Christ. 17 This Testament (I saye) which afore was confirmed to Christ warde, is not disanulled (that the promes shulde be made of none affecte) by the lawe which was geuen beyonde foure hundreth & thirtie yeares therafter. 18 For yf the enheritaunce be gotten by the lawe, then is it not geuen by promes. But God gaue it frely vnto Abraham by promes. 19 Wherfore the serueth the lawe? It was added because of trangression, tyll the sede came, to the which the promes was made. And it was geuen of angels, by the hande of the mediatoure. 20 A mediatour is not a mediatour of one onely, but God is one. 21 Is the lawe then agaynst the promyses of God? God forbyd. Howbeit yf there had bene geuen a lawe which coulde haue geue life, the no doute righteousnes shulde come of the lawe.
• Gal 4:25 : 25 For Agar is called in Arabia ye mount Sina, and reacheth vnto Ierusalem which now is, and is in bondage with hir children.
• Gal 5:1 : 1 Stonde fast therfore in the libertye wherwith Christ hath made vs fre, and be not wrapped agayne in the yocke off bondage.
• Heb 7:22 : 22 Thus is Iesus become a stablissher of so moch a better Testamete.
• Heb 8:6-9 : 6 But now hath he optayned a more excellent office, in as moch as he is the mediatour of a better Testament, which was made for better promyses. 7 For yf that first (Testament) had bene fautles, then shulde no place haue bene soughte for the secode. 8 For in rebukynge the he sayeth: Beholde, the dayes wyll come (sayeth the LORDE) that I wyl fynish vpo the house of Israel, and vpon the house off Iuda, 9 a new Testament: not as the Testament which I made with their fathers, in that daye whan I toke them by the handes, to lede them out of the londe of Egipte: for they contynued not in my Testament, and I regarded them not, sayeth the LORDE. 10 For this is the Testament, that I wil make wt the house of Israell after those dayes, sayeth the LORDE. I wyl geue my lawes in their mynde, and in their hertes wyl I wryte them: And I wil be their God, and they shal be my people: 11 and they shal not teach euery ma his neghboure, and euery man his brother, sayenge: knowe ye LORDE, for they shal knowe me from the leest to the most of them: 12 for I wil be mercifull ouer their vnrighteousnesses: And on their synnes & on their iniquyties wyl I not thynke enymore. 13 In that he sayeth: A new, he weereth out ye olde. Now yt which is worne out and waxed olde, is ready to vanish awaye
• Heb 9:15-24 : 15 And for this cause is he ye mediatour of the new Testament, that thorow death which chaunsed for the redempcion of those trasgressions (that were vnder the first Testament) they which were called mighte receaue the promes of eternall inheritaunce. 16 For where soeuer is a Testament, there must also be the death of him that maketh the testament. 17 For a Testamet taketh auctorite whan men are deed: for it is no value, as longe as he that made it is alyue. 18 For the which cause that first Testamet also was not ordeyned without bloude. 19 For whan all the commaundementes (acordinge to the lawe) were red of Moses vnto all the people, he toke ye bloude of calues and of goates, with water and purple woll and ysope, and sprenkled the boke and all the people, 20 sayenge: This is the bloude of the Testament, which God hath appoynted vnto you. 21 And the Tabernakle and all the vessels of the Gods seruyce sprenkled he with bloude likewyse. 22 And allmost all thinges are pourged with bloude after the lawe: and without sheddynge of bloude is no remyssion. 23 It is necessary then, that the symilitude of heauenly thinges be purified with soche: but ye heauenly thinges themselues are purified with better sacrifices, then are those. 24 For Christ is not entred into the holy places yt are made with handes (which are but symilitudes of true thinges) but in to the very heauen, for to apeare now before the face of God for vs:
• Heb 10:15-18 : 15 And the holy goost also beareth vs recorde of this, euen whan he sayde before: 16 This is the Testament, that I wyl make vnto them after those dayes, sayeth ye LORDE: I wyl geue my lawes in their hertes, and in their myndes wyl I wryte them, 17 and their synnes and iniquities wil I remebre nomore. 18 And where remyssion of these thinges is, there is nomore offerynge for synne.
• Heb 11:19 : 19 For he considered, yt God was able to rayse vp agayne from the deed. Therfore receaued he him for an ensample.
• Heb 12:24 : 24 and to Iesus the mediatoure of the new Testament, and to the sprenklynge off bloude, that speaketh better then the bloude of Abel.
• Heb 13:20 : 20 The God of peace (that broughte agayue fro the deed oure LORDE Iesus the greate shepherde of the shepe thorow the bloude of the euerlastinge Testament)
• Gen 16:3-4 : 3 Abrams wife toke Agar hir mayde ye Egipcian (after they had dwelt ten yeare in the londe of Canaan) and gaue her vnto hir husbande Abra, to be his wife. 4 And he wente in vnto Agar, and she conceaued. Now whan she sawe yt she had conceyued, she despysed hir mastresse.
• Gen 16:8 : 8 and sayde vnto her: Agar Sarais maide, whence commest thou? & whyther wylt thou go? She sayde: I fle fro my mastresse Sarai.
• Gen 16:15-16 : 15 And Agar bare Abram a sonne, and Abram called his sonnes name which Agar bare him, Ismael. 16 And Abram was foure score yeare olde and sixe, whan Agar bare him Ismael.