Romans 9:17

Geneva Bible (1560)

For the Scripture saith vnto Pharao, For this same purpose haue I stirred thee vp, that I might shewe my power in thee, and that my Name might be declared throughout al the earth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Λέγει γὰρ ἡ γραφὴ τῷ Φαραὼ, Ὅτι Εἰς αὐτὸ τοῦτο ἐξήγειρά σε, ὅπως ἐνδείξωμαι ἐν σοὶ τὴν δύναμίν μου, καὶ ὅπως διαγγελῇ τὸ ὄνομά μου ἐν πάσῃ τῇ γῇ.

Transliteration

For legei the graphē to Pharaō, That For auto touto exēgeira you, hopōs endeixōmai in you the dynamin of me, and hopōs diangelē the onoma of me in pasē the gē.

Grammar Details

• *legei*: present, indicative, active, 3rd person singular - says
• *graphē*: nominative, feminine, singular - scripture
• *Pharaō*: dative, masculine, singular - to Pharaoh
• *auto touto*: accusative, neuter, singular - this very thing/for this very purpose
• *exēgeira*: aorist, indicative, active, 1st person singular - I raised up
• *hopōs*: conjunction - so that/in order that
• *endeixōmai*: aorist, subjunctive, middle, 1st person singular - I might display
• *dynamin*: accusative, feminine, singular - power
• *diangelē*: aorist, subjunctive, passive, 3rd person singular - might be proclaimed
• *onoma*: nominative, neuter, singular - name
• *pasē*: adjective, dative, feminine, singular - all
• *gē*: dative, feminine, singular - earth/land

Word Meanings

• *graphē*: scripture/writing
• *exēgeira*: I raised up/I brought you to this position
• *endeixōmai*: I might display/show/demonstrate
• *dynamin*: power/might/strength
• *diangelē*: might be proclaimed/announced/declared
• *onoma*: name/reputation/character
• *pasē*: all/whole/entire
• *gē*: earth/land/world

Referenced Verses

• Exod 9:16 : 16 And in deede, for this cause haue I appointed thee, to shewe my power in thee, and to declare my Name throughout all the world.
• Prov 16:4 : 4 The Lord hath made all things for his owne sake: yea, euen the wicked for the day of euill.
• John 17:26 : 26 And I haue declared vnto the thy Name, and will declare it, that the loue wherewith thou hast loued me, may be in them, and I in them.
• Rom 11:4 : 4 But what saith the answere of God to him? I haue reserued vnto my selfe seuen thousand men, which haue not bowed the knee to Baal.
• Gal 3:8 : 8 For the Scripture foreseeing, that God would iustifie the Gentiles through faith, preached before the Gospel vnto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all the Gentiles be blessed.
• Gal 3:22 : 22 But the Scripture hath concluded all vnder sinne, that the promes by the faith of Iesus Christ should be giuen to them that beleeue.
• Gal 4:30 : 30 But what sayth the Scripture? Put out the seruant and her sonne: for the sonne of the seruant shall not be heire with the sonne of the free woman.
• Isa 10:5-6 : 5 O Asshur, the rodde of my wrath: and the staffe in their hands is mine indignation. 6 I will sende him to a dissembling nation, and I will giue him a charge against the people of my wrath to take the spoyle and to take the pray, and to treade them vnder feete like the mire in the streete.
• Isa 37:20 : 20 Nowe therefore, O Lorde our God, saue thou vs out of his hand, that all the kingdomes of the earth may knowe, that thou onely art the Lorde.
• Isa 45:1-3 : 1 Thus sayeth the Lord vnto Cyrus his anointed, whose right hand I haue holden to subdue nations before him: therefore will I weaken the loynes of Kings and open the doores before him, and the gates shall not be shut: 2 I will goe before thee and make the crooked streight: I will breake the brasen doores, and burst the yron barres. 3 And I will giue thee the treasures of darkenesse, and the things hid in secret places, that thou maist know that I am the Lord which call thee by thy name, euen the God of Israel.
• Jer 27:6-7 : 6 But nowe I haue giuen all these landes into the hand of Nebuchad-nezzar the King of Babel my seruant, and the beastes of the fielde haue I also giuen him to serue him. 7 And all nations shall serue him, and his sonne, and his sonnes sonne vntill the very time of his lande come also: then many nations and great Kinges shall serue themselues of him.
• Dan 4:22 : 22 (4:19) It is thou, O King, that art great and mightie: for thy greatnesse is growen, and reacheth vnto heauen, and thy dominion to the endes of the earth.
• Dan 5:18-21 : 18 O King, heare thou, The most high God gaue vnto Nebuchad-nezzar thy father a kingdome, and maiestie, and honour and glory. 19 And for the maiestie that he gaue him, all people, nations, and languages trembled, and feared before him: he put to death whom he would: he smote whome he would: whome he would he set vp, and whome he would he put downe. 20 But when his heart was puft vp, and his minde hardened in pride, hee was deposed from his kingly throne, and they tooke his honour from him. 21 And hee was driuen from the sonnes of men, and his heart was made like the beastes, and his dwelling was with the wilde asses: they fed him with grasse like oxen, and his body was wet with the dewe of the heauen, till he knewe, that the most high God bare rule ouer the kingdome of men, and that he appointeth ouer it, whomsoeuer he pleaseth.
• Exod 10:1-2 : 1 Againe the Lorde saide vnto Moses, Goe to Pharaoh: for I haue hardened his heart, and the heart of his seruants, that I might worke these my miracles in the middes of his realme, 2 And that thou maist declare in the eares of thy sonne, & of thy sonnes sonne, what things I haue done in Egypt, and my miracles, which I haue done among them: that ye may knowe that I am the Lorde.
• Exod 14:17-18 : 17 And I, beholde, I will harden the heart of the Egyptians, that they may followe them, and I wil get me honour vpon Pharaoh, & vpon all his host, vpon his charets, and vpon his horsemen. 18 Then the Egyptians shall know that I am the Lorde, when I haue gotten me honour vpon Pharaoh, vpon his charets, & vpon his horsemen.
• Exod 15:14-15 : 14 The people shal heare and be afraide: sorow shal come vpon the inhabitants of Palestina. 15 Then the dukes of Edom shalbe amased, & trembling shall come vpon the great men of Moab: all the inhabitantes of Canaan shall waxe faint hearted.
• Exod 18:10-11 : 10 Therfore Iethro sayd, Blessed be the Lord who hath deliuered you out of the hande of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of Pharaoh: who hath also deliuered the people from vnder the hand of the Egyptians. 11 Now I know that the Lord is greater then all the gods: for as they haue dealt proudly with them, so are they recompensed.
• Josh 2:9-9 : 9 And saide vnto the men, I knowe that the Lord hath giuen you the land, and that the feare of you is fallen vpon vs, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you. 10 For we haue heard, howe the Lord dried vp the water of the redde Sea before you, when you came out of Egypt, and what you did vnto the two Kings of the Amorites, that were on the other side Iorden, vnto Sihon and to Og, whom ye vtterly destroyed:
• Josh 9:9 : 9 And they answered him, From a very farre countrey thy seruants are come for the Name of the Lorde thy God: for we haue heard his fame and all that he hath done in Egypt,
• 1 Sam 2:7-8 : 7 The Lord maketh poore and maketh rich: bringeth lowe, and exalteth. 8 He raiseth vp ye poore out of the dust, and lifteth vp the begger fro the dunghill, to set them among princes, and to make them inherite the seate of glory: for the pillars of the earth are the Lordes, and he hath set the world vpon them.
• 1 Sam 4:8 : 8 Wo vnto vs, who shall deliuer vs out of the hande of these mightie Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wildernes.
• Esth 4:14 : 14 For if thou holdest thy peace at this time, comfort and deliuerance shall appeare to the Iewes out of another place, but thou and thy fathers house shall perish: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdome for such a time?
• Ps 83:17-18 : 17 Let them be confounded and troubled for euer: yea, let them be put to shame and perish, 18 That they may knowe that thou, which art called Iehouah, art alone, euen the most High ouer all the earth.