Luke 15:24

Geneva Bible (1560)

For this my sonne was dead, and is aliue againe: and he was lost, but he is found; they began to be merie.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτι οὗτος ὁ υἱός μου νεκρὸς ἦν, καὶ ἀνέζησεν· καὶ ἀπολωλὼς ἦν, καὶ εὑρέθη. Καὶ ἤρξαντο εὐφραίνεσθαι.

Transliteration

For this the huios of-me nekros ēn, and anezēsen; and apolōlōs ēn, and heurethē. And ērxanto euphrainesthai.

Grammar Details

• *huios*: noun, masculine singular, nominative - son
• μου: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st person singular - of me
• *nekros*: adjective, masculine singular, nominative - dead
• *ēn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person singular of *eimi* - was
• *anezēsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - came to life again
• *apolōlōs*: perfect active participle, masculine singular, nominative - having been lost
• *heurethē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - was found
• *ērxanto*: aorist middle indicative, 3rd person plural - they began
• *euphrainesthai*: present passive infinitive - to celebrate/rejoice

Word Meanings

• *huios*: son
• *nekros*: dead/lifeless
• *anezēsen*: came to life again/revived/became alive again
• *apolōlōs*: having been lost/perished/gone astray
• *heurethē*: was found/discovered
• *ērxanto*: began/started
• *euphrainesthai*: to celebrate/rejoice/be merry/make merry

Referenced Verses

• Luke 15:32 : 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.
• Eph 2:1 : 1 And you hath he quickened, that were dead in trespasses and sinnes,
• Eph 2:5 : 5 Euen when we were dead by sinnes, hath quickened vs together in Christ, by whose grace ye are saued,
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore hee sayeth, Awake thou that sleepest, and stande vp from the deade, and Christ shall giue thee light.
• Col 2:13 : 13 And you which were dead in sinnes, and in the vncircumcision of your flesh, hath he quickened together with him, forgiuing you all your trespasses,
• 1 Tim 5:6 : 6 But shee that liueth in pleasure, is dead, while shee liueth.
• Rom 8:2 : 2 For the Lawe of the Spirite of life, which is in Christ Iesus, hath freed mee from the lawe of sinne and of death.
• Rev 3:1 : 1 And write vnto the Angel of the Church which is at Sardis, These things saith he that hath the seuen Spirits of God, and the seuen starres, I knowe thy workes: for thou hast a name that thou liuest, but thou art dead.
• Luke 19:10 : 10 For the Sonne of man is come to seeke, and to saue that which was lost.
• Luke 15:4 : 4 What man of you hauing an hundreth sheepe, if hee lose one of them, doeth not leaue ninetie and nine in the wildernesse, and goe after that which is lost, vntill he finde it?
• Rom 6:11 : 11 Likewise thinke ye also, that ye are dead to sin, but are aliue to God in Iesus Christ our Lord.
• Ezek 34:16 : 16 I will seeke that which was lost, and bring againe that which was driue away, and will binde vp that which was broken, and will strengthen the weake but I wil destroy the fat & the strong, and I will feede them with iudgement.
• Matt 18:10-13 : 10 See that ye despise not one of these litle ones: for I say vnto you, that in heauen their Angels alwayes behold the face of my Father which is in heauen. 11 For the Sonne of man is come to saue that which was lost. 12 How thinke ye? If a man haue an hundreth sheepe, and one of them be gone astray, doeth he not leaue ninetie & nine, & go into the mountaines, and seeke that which is gone astray? 13 And if so be that he finde it, verely I say vnto you, he reioyceth more of that sheepe, then of the ninetie and nine which went not astray:
• Mark 8:22 : 22 And hee came to Bethsaida, and they brought a blinde man vnto him, and desired him to touch him.
• Luke 10:19 : 19 Beholde, I giue vnto you power to treade on Serpents, and Scorpions, & ouer all the power of the enemie, and nothing shall hurt you.
• Gen 45:28 : 28 And Israel sayde, I haue inough: Ioseph my sonne is yet aliue: I wil go and see him yer I die.
• Isa 35:10 : 10 Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall returne and come to Zion with prayse: and euerlasting ioy shall bee vpon their heads: they shall obteine ioye and gladnesse, and sorow and mourning shall flee away.
• Isa 66:11 : 11 That ye may sucke and be satisfied with the brestes of her consolation: that ye may milke out and be delited with ye brightnes of her glorie.
• Jer 31:12-17 : 12 Therefore they shall come, and reioyce in the height of Zion, and shall runne to the bountifulnes of the Lord, euen for the wheat and for the wine, and for the oyle, and for the increase of sheepe, & bullocks: and their soule shalbe as a watered garden, and they shall haue no more sorow. 13 Then shall ye virgine reioyce in the dance, and the yong men and the old men together: for I wil turne their mourning into ioy, and wil comfort them, and giue them ioy for their sorowes. 14 And I wil replenish the soule of the Priests with fatnesse, and my people shalbe satisfied with my goodnesse, saith the Lord. 15 Thus saith the Lord, A voyce was heard on hie, a mourning and bitter weeping. Rahel weeping for her children, refused to be comforted for her children, because they were not. 16 Thus saith the Lorde, Refraine thy voyce from weeping, and thine eyes from teares: for thy worke shalbe rewarded, saith the Lord, and they shall come againe from the land of the enemie: 17 And there is hope in thine ende, saith the Lord, that thy children shall come againe to their owne borders.
• Ezek 34:4 : 4 The weake haue ye not strengthened: the sicke haue ye not healed, neither haue ye bounde vp the broken, nor brought againe that which was driuen away, neither haue yee sought that which was lost, but with crueltie, and with rigour haue yee ruled them.
• Rom 6:13 : 13 Neither giue ye your members, as weapons of vnrighteousnes vnto sinne: but giue your selues vnto God, as they that are aliue from the dead, and giue your members as weapons of righteousnesse vnto God.
• Luke 15:7-9 : 7 I say vnto you, that likewise ioy shall be in heauen for one sinner that conuerteth, more then for ninetie and nine iust men, which neede none amendement of life. 8 Either what woma hauing ten groates, if she lose one groate, doth not light a candle, & sweepe the house, and seeke diligently till shee finde it? 9 And when shee hath found it, shee calleth her friendes, and neighbours, saying, Reioyce with me: for I haue found the groate which I had lost.
• John 5:21 : 21 For likewise as the Father rayseth vp the dead, and quickeneth them, so the Sonne quickeneth whom he will.
• John 5:24-25 : 24 Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that heareth my worde, and beleeueth him that sent me, hath euerlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but hath passed from death vnto life. 25 Verely, verely I say vnto you, the houre shall come, and now is, when the dead shall heare the voyce of the Sonne of God: and they that heare it, shall liue.
• John 11:25 : 25 Iesus saide vnto her, I am the resurrection and the life: he that beleeueth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he liue.
• Rom 11:15 : 15 For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiuing be, but life from the dead?
• Rom 12:15 : 15 Reioyce with them that reioyce, & weepe with them that weepe.
• 1 Cor 12:26 : 26 Therefore if one member suffer, all suffer with it: if one member be had in honour, all the members reioyce with it.
• 2 Cor 5:14-15 : 14 For that loue of Christ constraineth vs, 15 Because we thus iudge, that if one be dead for all, then were all dead, and he died for all, that they which liue, shoulde not henceforth liue vnto themselues, but vnto him which died for them, and rose againe.
• Jude 1:12 : 12 These are rockes in your feasts of charitie when they feast with you, without al feare, feeding themselues: cloudes they are wtout water, caried about of windes, corrupt trees & without fruit, twise dead, and plucked vp by ye rootes.