Matthew 9:20

Coverdale Bible (1535)

And beholde, a woman which was diseased wt an yssue of bloude xij. yeres, came behynde hym, and touched the hem of hys vesture.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ, ἰδού, γυνὴ, αἱμορροοῦσα δώδεκα ἔτη, προσελθοῦσα ὄπισθεν, ἥψατο τοῦ κρασπέδου τοῦ ἱματίου αὐτοῦ:

Transliteration

And, idou, a gynē, haimorroousa twelve etē, having proselthusa opisthen, hēpsato of the kraspedou of the himatiou of him:

Grammar Details

• *idou*: aorist imperative - behold/look
• *gynē*: nominative, feminine, singular - woman
• *haimorroousa*: present active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having a flow of blood
• *etē*: accusative, neuter, plural - years
• *proselthusa*: aorist active participle, nominative, feminine, singular - having approached
• *opisthen*: adverb - behind
• *hēpsato*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person singular - touched
• *kraspedou*: genitive, neuter, singular - edge/fringe/tassel
• *himatiou*: genitive, neuter, singular - garment/cloak

Word Meanings

• *idou*: behold/look/see
• *gynē*: woman/wife
• *haimorroousa*: having a flow of blood/bleeding
• *proselthusa*: having approached/having come to
• *opisthen*: behind/from behind
• *hēpsato*: touched/took hold of
• *kraspedou*: edge/fringe/tassel/hem
• *himatiou*: garment/cloak/robe

Referenced Verses

• Matt 14:36 : 36 & besought him, that they might but touch the hemme of his vesture onely: & as many as touched it, were made whole.
• Matt 23:5 : 5 All their workes do they to be sene of men. They set abrode their Philateries, and make large borders vpon their garmentes,
• Mark 5:25-43 : 25 And there was a woman, which had had the bloude yssue twolue yeares, 26 and had suffred moch of many phisicians, and spent all that she had, and was not helped, but rather in worse case. 27 Whan she herde of Iesus, she came behynde amonge the people, and touched his garment. 28 For she sayde: Yf I maye but touch his clothes, I shalbe whole. 29 And immediatly ye fountayne of hir bloude was dryed vp, and she felt in hir body, yt she was healed of the plage. 30 And forth with Iesus felt in himself the power that was gone out of him, and turned him aboute amoge the people, and sayde: Who hath touched my clothes? 31 And his disciples sayde vnto him: Thou seist that the people thrusteth the, and sayest: Who hath touched me? 32 And he loked aboute to se her, that had done it. 33 As for the woman, she feared and trembled (for she knew, what was done in her) and came and fell downe before him, and tolde him the whole trueth. 34 And he sayde vnto her: Doughter, thy faith hath made the whole: go thy waye in peace, & be whole of thy plage. 35 Whyle he yet spake, there came certayne from the ruler of the synagoges house, and sayde: Thy doughter is deed, why troublest thou the master eny more? 36 But Iesus herde right soone the worde that was spoken, and sayde vnto the ruler of the synagoge: Be not thou afrayed, beleue onely. 37 And he suffred no ma to folowe him, but Peter and Iames and Ihon his brother. 38 And he came in to the ruler of the synagoges house, and sawe the busynes, and them that wepte and wayled greatly: 39 and he wente in, and sayde vnto them: Why make ye this a doo, and wepe? The mayde is not deed, but slepeth. 40 And they laughed him to scorne And he droue them all out, and toke the father and mother of the mayde, and them that were with him, and wente in where the mayden laye. 41 And he toke the mayde by the honde, and sayde vnto her: Thabitha Cumi (which is by interpretaeion) Mayde, I saye vnto the: Aryse. 42 And immediatly the mayden arose, and walked. She was twolue yeare olde, and they were astonnyed out of measure. 43 And he charged them strately, that no man shulde knowe of it, and sayde vnto them, that they shulde geue her to eate.
• Luke 8:43-56 : 43 And a woma hauynge the bloudyssue twolue yeares, (which had spent all hir substaunte vpon phisicians, and coude be healed of none) 44 came behynde, & touched the hemme of his garmet, and immediatly hir yssue of bloude was staunched. 45 And Iesus sayde: Who hath touched me? But whan they all denyed, Peter sayde, and they that were with him: Master, the people thronge the and thrust the, and thou sayest: Who hath touched me? 46 Iesus saide: Some body hath touched me, for I fele, that there is vertue gone out fro me. 47 But whan the woman sawe that she was not hyd, she came treblynge, and fell downe before him, and tolde him before all the people, for what cause she had touched him, & how she was healed immediatly. 48 And he sayde vnto her: Doughter, be of good comforte, thy faith hath made the whole, go thy waye in peace. 49 Whyle he yet spake, there came one fro ye ruler of ye synagoges house, and sayde vnto him: Thy doughter is deed, disease not the master. 50 Whan Iesus herde that, he answered him, and sayde: Feare not, beleue onely, and she shal be made whole. 51 But whan he came in to the house, he suffred no man to go in, saue Peter, and Iames and Iho, and the father and mother of the mayden. 52 They wepte all, and sorowed for her. But he sayde: Wepe not, for she is not deed, but slepeth. 53 And they laughed hi to scorne, knowynge well that she was deed. 54 But he thrust them all out, and toke her by the hande, and cryed, and sayde: Mayde aryse. 55 And hir sprete came agayne, & she arose straight waye. And he comaunded to geue her meate. 56 And hir elders were astonnyed. But he charged them, that they shulde tell no man, what was done.
• Deut 22:12 : 12 Thou shalt make gardes vpon the foure quarters of thy garment, wherwith thou couerest thy selfe.
• Acts 19:12 : 12 so that from his body there were broughte napkyns or partlettes vnto the sicke, and the diseases departed from them, and the euell spretes wente out of them.
• Num 15:38-39 : 38 Speake to the childre of Israel, & saye vnto the, yt they make them gardes vpon ye quarters of their garmentes amonge all yor posterities, and put yalowe rybandes vpon the gardes in ye quarters. 39 And ye gardes shal serue you, yt ye maye loke vpon the, and remembre all the comaundementes of the LORDE, & do them: that ye order not youre selues after ye meanynge of youre awne hert, ner go awhorynge after youre awne eyes.
• Mark 6:56 : 56 And whither so euer he entred in to townes, cities or vyllagies, there layed they the sicke in the market place, and prayed him, that they might but touch the hemme of his garment. And as many as touched him, were made whole.
• Mark 8:22 : 22 And he came to Bethsaida, & they brought one blynde vnto him, and prayed him to touch him.
• Lev 15:25-33 : 25 But whan a woman hath hir bloude yssue a longe season, not onely at the tyme of hir naturall course, but also out of the tyme of hir naturall course, then shall she be vncleane so longe as she hath the yssue: eue as she is at the tyme whan she is put aparte, 26 so shall she be vncleane here also. What so euer she lyeth vpon all the tyme of hir yssue, shalbe as hir bed, whan she is put aparte. And all that she sytteth vpon, shalbe vncleane, as is hir vnclennesse, whan she is put aparte. 27 Who so euer toucheth eny of them, shal be vncleane, and shal wash his clothes, and bathe him self with water, & be vncleane vntyll the euen. 28 But yf she be cleane of hir yssue, the shal she nombre seuen dayes, afterwarde shall she be cleane: 29 and vpon the eight daye shall she take two turtill doues, or two yonge pigeons, and brynge them vnto the prest before the dore of the Tabernacle of wytnesse. 30 And the prest shall make of the one a synofferynge, of the other a burntofferynge, and make an attonement for her before the LORDE, as concernynge the yssue of hir vnclenesse. 31 Thus shal ye se that the childre of Israel kepe them selues from their vnclenesse, that they dye not in their vnclennesse, whan they defyle my habitacion, which is amoge you. 32 This is the lawe ouer him that hath a runnynge sore, & him whose sede departeth from him in slepe, so that he is vncleane therof. 33 And ouer her that hath hir bloude yssue, and who so euer hath a runnynge sore, whether it be man or woman, and whan a man lyeth with her that is vncleane.
• Acts 5:15 : 15 In so moch that they brought out the sycke in to the stretes, and layed them vpon beddes and barowes, that at the leest waye the shadowe of Peter (whan he came by) might ouershadowe some of the.