Romans 10:18

Geneva Bible (1560)

But I demaund, Haue they not heard? No doubt their sound went out through all the earth, and their wordes into the endes of the worlde.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἀλλὰ λέγω, Μὴ οὐκ ἤκουσαν; Μενοῦνγε, εἰς πᾶσαν τὴν γῆν ἐξῆλθεν ὁ φθόγγος αὐτῶν, καὶ εἰς τὰ πέρατα τῆς οἰκουμένης τὰ ῥήματα αὐτῶν.

Transliteration

Alla legō, Mē ouk ēkousan? Menounge, eis pasan tēn gēn exēlthen ho phthoggos autōn, kai eis ta perata tēs oikoumenēs ta rhēmata autōn.

Grammar Details

• *Alla*: strong adversative conjunction - but
• *legō*: present indicative, 1st singular - I say
• *Mē ouk*: interrogative negative particles - surely they did not
• *ēkousan*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd plural - they heard
• *Menounge*: strong affirmative particle - indeed/certainly
• *eis pasan tēn gēn*: accusative, feminine, singular - into all the earth
• *exēlthen*: aorist indicative, active, 3rd singular - went out
• *ho phthoggos*: nominative, masculine, singular - the sound
• *autōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of them
• *kai*: conjunction - and
• *eis ta perata*: accusative, neuter, plural - to the ends
• *tēs oikoumenēs*: genitive, feminine, singular - of the inhabited world
• *ta rhēmata*: nominative, neuter, plural - the words

Word Meanings

• *Menounge*: indeed/certainly/yes indeed/more than that
• *exēlthen*: went out/spread/extended
• *phthoggos*: sound/voice/utterance
• *perata*: ends/extremities/boundaries
• *oikoumenēs*: inhabited world/earth/empire
• *rhēmata*: words/sayings/messages

Referenced Verses

• Ps 19:4 : 4 Their line is gone forth through all the earth, & their words into the endes of the world: in them hath he set a tabernacle for the sunne.
• Matt 24:14 : 14 And this Gospel of the kingdome shalbe preached through the whole world for a witnes vnto all nations, and then shall the end come.
• Rom 1:8 : 8 First I thanke my God through Iesus Christ for you all, because your faith is published throughout the whole world.
• Col 1:6 : 6 Which is come vnto you, eue as it is vnto al the world, & is fruitful, as it is also amog you, from ye day that ye heard & truly knew ye grace of God,
• Col 1:23 : 23 If ye continue, grounded and stablished in the faith, & be not moued away from the hope of the Gospel, whereof ye haue heard, and which hath bene preached to euery creature which is vnder heauen, whereof I Paul am a minister.
• 1 Thess 1:8 : 8 For from you sounded out the worde of the Lord, not in Macedonia and in Achaia only: but your faith also which is toward God, spred abroad in all quarters, that we neede not to speake any thing.
• Matt 28:19 : 19 Go therefore, & teach all nations, baptizing them in the Name of the Father, and the Sonne, and the holy Ghost,
• Mark 16:15 : 15 And he saide vnto them, Goe ye into all the worlde, and preach the Gospel to euery creature.
• Mark 16:20 : 20 And they went foorth, and preached euery where; the Lorde wrought with them, and confirmed the worde with signes that folowed. Amen.
• Acts 2:5-9 : 5 And there were dwelling at Hierusalem Iewes, men that feared God, of euery nation vnder heauen. 6 Nowe when this was noised, the multitude came together and were astonied, because that euery man heard them speake his owne language. 7 And they wondered al, and marueiled, saying among themselues, Beholde, are not all these which speake, of Galile? 8 How then heare we euery man our owne language, wherein we were borne? 9 Parthians, and Medes, & Elamites, and the inhabitants of Mesopotamia, and of Iudea, and of Cappadocia, of Pontus, and Asia, 10 And of Phrygia, and Pamphylia, of Egypt, & of the partes of Libya, which is beside Cyrene, & strangers of Rome, and Iewes, & Proselytes, 11 Creetes, and Arabians: wee hearde them speake in our owne tongues the wonderful works of God.
• Acts 26:20 : 20 But shewed first vnto them of Damascus, and at Hierusalem, & throughout all the coasts of Iudea, & then to the Gentiles, that they should repent and turne to God, and doe workes worthy amendement of life.
• Acts 28:23 : 23 And when they had appointed him a day, there came many vnto him into his lodging, to whom he expounded testifying the kingdome of God, and persuading them those things that concerne Iesus, both out of the Lawe of Moses, and out of the Prophets, from morning to night.
• Rom 15:19 : 19 With the power of signes and wonders, by the power of the Spirit of God: so that from Hierusalem, and round about vnto Illyricum, I haue caused to abound the Gospel of Christ.
• Matt 26:13 : 13 Verely I say vnto you, wheresoeuer this Gospel shall bee preached throughout all the worlde, there shall also this that shee hath done, be spoken of for a memoriall of her.
• Ps 22:27 : 27 All the endes of the worlde shall remember themselues, and turne to the Lord: and all the kinreds of the nations shall worship before thee.
• Ps 98:3 : 3 He hath remembred his mercy and his trueth toward the house of Israel: all the ends of the earth haue seene the saluation of our God.
• Isa 24:16 : 16 From the vttermost part of the earth wee haue heard praises, euen glory to the iust, and I sayd, My leanesse, my leanesse, woe is mee: the transgressours haue offended: yea, the transgressours haue grieuously offended.
• Isa 49:6 : 6 And hee sayde, It is a small thing that thou shouldest be my seruaunt, to raise vp the tribes of Iaakob, and to restore the desolations of Israel: I will also giue thee for a light of the Gentiles, that thou maiest bee my saluation vnto the ende of the worlde.
• Isa 52:10 : 10 The Lorde hath made bare his holy arme in the sight of all the Gentiles, and all the endes of the earth shall see the saluation of our God.
• Jer 16:19 : 19 O Lord, thou art my force, & my strength & my refuge in the day of affliction: the Gentiles shal come vnto thee from the ends of the world, & shal say, Surely our fathers haue inherited lies, and vanitie, wherein was no profite.
• Matt 4:8 : 8 Againe the deuil tooke him vp into an exceeding hie mountaine, and shewed him all the kingdomes of the world, and the glory of them,
• 1 Kgs 18:10 : 10 As the Lorde thy God liueth, there is no nation or kingdome, whither my lorde hath not sent to seeke thee: and when they sayd, He is not here, he tooke an othe of the kingdome and nation, if they had not found thee.