Luke 11:13

Geneva Bible (1560)

If yee then which are euill, can giue good giftes vnto your children, howe much more shall your heauenly Father giue the holy Ghost to them, that desire him?

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰ οὖν, ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὑπάρχοντες, οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν: πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ Πατὴρ ὁ ἐξ οὐρανοῦ δώσει Πνεῦμα Ἅγιον τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν;

Transliteration

If oun, you ponēroi hyparchontes, oidate domata agatha didonai to the teknois of you: how much more the Patēr from ouranou dōsei Pneuma Hagion to the ones aitousin him?

Grammar Details

• *oun*: postpositive conjunction - therefore/then
• *ponēroi*: nominative, masculine, plural - evil/wicked
• *hyparchontes*: present participle, active, nominative, masculine, plural - being/existing
• *oidate*: perfect indicative, active, 2nd plural - you know
• *domata*: accusative, neuter, plural - gifts
• *agatha*: accusative, neuter, plural - good
• *didonai*: present infinitive, active - to give
• *teknois*: dative, neuter, plural - children
• *Patēr*: nominative, masculine, singular - Father
• *ouranou*: genitive, masculine, singular - heaven
• *dōsei*: future indicative, active, 3rd singular - will give
• *Pneuma*: accusative, neuter, singular - Spirit
• *Hagion*: accusative, neuter, singular - Holy
• *aitousin*: present participle, active, dative, masculine, plural - asking

Word Meanings

• *ponēroi*: evil/wicked/bad
• *hyparchontes*: being/existing/belonging
• *oidate*: know/understand/comprehend
• *domata*: gifts/presents
• *agatha*: good/beneficial/valuable
• *didonai*: to give/to grant/to bestow
• *teknois*: children/offspring/descendants
• *Patēr*: Father/progenitor
• *ouranou*: heaven/sky/celestial realm
• *dōsei*: will give/will grant/will bestow
• *Pneuma*: Spirit/breath/wind
• *Hagion*: Holy/set apart/sacred
• *aitousin*: asking/requesting

Referenced Verses

• Matt 7:11 : 11 If ye then, which are euill, can giue to your children good giftes, howe much more shall your Father which is in heauen, giue good thinges to them that aske him?
• John 4:10 : 10 Iesus answered and saide vnto her, If thou knewest that gift of God, and who it is that saieth to thee, Giue mee drinke, thou wouldest haue asked of him, and hee woulde haue giuen thee, water of life.
• Ezek 36:27 : 27 And I will put my spirite within you, and cause you to walke in my statutes, and ye shall keepe my iudgements and do them.
• Rom 7:18 : 18 For I know, that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to wil is preset with me: but I find no meanes to perform that which is good.
• Rom 8:32 : 32 Who spared not his owne Sonne, but gaue him for vs all to death, how shall he not with him giue vs all things also?
• Heb 12:9-9 : 9 Moreouer we haue had the fathers of our bodies which corrected vs, and we gaue them reuerence: should we not much rather be in subiection vnto the father of spirites, that we might liue? 10 For they verely for a few dayes chastened vs after their owne pleasure: but he chasteneth vs for our profite, that we might be partakers of his holinesse.
• 2 Cor 3:9-9 : 9 For if the ministerie of condemnation was glorious, much more doeth the ministration of righteousnesse exceede in glorie. 10 For euen that which was glorified, was not glorified in this point, that is, as touching the exceeding glorie. 11 For if that which should be abolished, was glorious, much more shall that which remaineth, be glorious.
• Prov 1:23 : 23 (Turne you at my correction: loe, I will powre out my mind vnto you, and make you vnderstand my wordes)
• Isa 44:3-4 : 3 For I will powre water vpon the thirstie, and floods vpon the drie grounde: I will powre my Spirit vpon thy seede, and my blessing vpon thy buddes. 4 And they shal grow as among the grasse, and as the willowes by the riuers of waters.
• John 7:37-39 : 37 Nowe in the last and great day of the feast, Iesus stoode and cried, saying, If any man thirst, let him come vnto me, and drinke. 38 Hee that beleeueth in mee, as saith the Scripture, out of his bellie shall flowe riuers of water of life. 39 ( This spake hee of the Spirite which they that beleeued in him, should receiue: for the holy Ghost was not yet giuen, because that Iesus was not yet glorified.)
• Rom 5:9-9 : 9 Much more then, being now iustified by his blood, we shalbe saued from wrath through him. 10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Sonne, much more being reconciled, we shalbe saued by his life,
• Rom 5:17 : 17 For if by the offence of one, death reigned through one, much more shall they which receiue that abundance of grace, and of that gift of that righteousnesse, reigne in life through one, that is, Iesus Christ.
• Acts 2:38 : 38 Then Peter said vnto them, Amend your liues, and bee baptized euery one of you in the Name of Iesus Christ for the remission of sinnes: and ye shall receiue the gift of the holy Ghost.
• Luke 11:2 : 2 And he said vnto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father, which art in heauen, halowed be thy Name: Thy kingdome come: Let thy will be done, euen in earth, as it is in heauen:
• Luke 15:30-32 : 30 But when this thy sonne was come, which hath deuoured thy good with harlots, thou hast for his sake killed the fat calfe. 31 And he said vnto him, Sonne, thou art euer with me, and al that I haue, is thine. 32 It was meete that we shoulde make merie, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is aliue againe: and hee was lost, but he is found.
• John 3:5-6 : 5 Iesus answered, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except that a man be borne of water and of the Spirite, hee can not enter into the kingdome of God. 6 That which is borne of the flesh, is flesh: and that that is borne of the Spirit, is spirit.
• Isa 49:15 : 15 Can a woman forget her childe, & not haue compassion on the sonne of her wombe? Though they should forget, yet wil I not forget thee.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And the Lord smelled a sauour of rest, and the Lord said in his heart, I will hencefoorth curse the ground no more for mans cause: for the imagination of mans heart is euill, euen from his youth: neither will I smite any more all things liuing, as I haue done.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be cleane? and he that is borne of woman, that he shoulde be iust? 15 Beholde, he founde no stedfastnesse in his Saintes: yea, the heauens are not cleane in his sight. 16 How much more is man abominable, and filthie, which drinketh iniquitie like water?
• Ps 51:5 : 5 Beholde, I was borne in iniquitie, and in sinne hath my mother conceiued me.
• Joel 2:28 : 28 And afterward will I powre out my Spirit vpon all flesh: and your sonnes & your daughters shall prophecie: your olde men shall dreame dreames, and your yong men shal see visions,
• Matt 5:16 : 16 Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good workes, and glorifie your Father which is in heauen.
• Matt 5:45 : 45 That ye may be the children of your father that is in heauen: for he maketh his sunne to arise on the euill, and the good, and sendeth raine on the iust, and vniust.
• Matt 6:14 : 14 For if ye doe forgiue men their trespasses, your heauenly Father will also forgiue you.
• Matt 6:30 : 30 Wherefore if God so clothe the grasse of the fielde which is to day, and to morowe is cast into the ouen, shall he not doe much more vnto you, O ye of litle faith?
• Matt 6:32 : 32 (For after all these things seeke the Gentiles) for your heauenly Father knoweth, that ye haue neede of all these things.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For wee our selues also were in times past vnwise, disobedient, deceiued, seruing the lustes and diuers pleasures, liuing in maliciousnes and enuie, hatefull, and hating one another:
• Gen 6:5-6 : 5 When the Lorde sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually, 6 Then it repented ye Lord, that he had made man in the earth, and he was sorie in his heart.