Matthew 22:13

King James Version 1611 (Original)

Then said the king to the servants, Bind him hand and foot, and take him away, and cast him into outer darkness; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Τότε εἶπεν ὁ βασιλεὺς τοῖς διακόνοις, Δήσαντες αὐτοῦ πόδας καὶ χεῖρας, ἄρατε αὐτὸν, καὶ ἐκβάλετε εἰς τὸ σκότος τὸ ἐξώτερον· ἐκεῖ ἔσται ὁ κλαυθμὸς καὶ ὁ βρυγμὸς τῶν ὀδόντων.

Transliteration

Then eipen the basileus to the diakonois, Dēsantes of him podas and cheiras, arate him, and ekbalete into the skotos the exōteron; there estai the klauthmos and the brygmos of the odontōn.

Grammar Details

• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - said
• *basileus*: nominative, masculine, singular - king
• *diakonois*: dative, masculine, plural - servants/attendants/ministers
• *Dēsantes*: aorist active participle, nominative, masculine, plural - having bound
• *podas*: accusative, masculine, plural - feet
• *cheiras*: accusative, feminine, plural - hands
• *arate*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - take/lift up
• *ekbalete*: aorist active imperative, 2nd person plural - throw out/cast out
• *skotos*: accusative, neuter, singular - darkness
• *exōteron*: accusative, neuter, singular, comparative - outer/outside
• *estai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will be
• *klauthmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - weeping/wailing
• *brygmos*: nominative, masculine, singular - grinding/gnashing
• *odontōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - of teeth

Word Meanings

• *diakonois*: servants/attendants/ministers
• *Dēsantes*: having bound/tied/restrained
• *arate*: take/lift up/remove
• *ekbalete*: throw out/cast out/expel
• *skotos*: darkness/obscurity
• *exōteron*: outer/outside/external
• *klauthmos*: weeping/wailing/crying
• *brygmos*: grinding/gnashing/grating

Referenced Verses

• Matt 8:12 : 12 But the children of the kingdom shall be cast out into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 25:30 : 30 And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Luke 13:28 : 28 There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth, when ye shall see Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, and all the prophets, in the kingdom of God, and you yourselves thrust out.
• Matt 13:42 : 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 13:50 : 50 And shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 24:51 : 51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
• Matt 12:29 : 29 Or else how can one enter into a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first bind the strong man? and then he will spoil his house.
• Matt 13:30 : 30 Let both grow together until the harvest: and in the time of harvest I will say to the reapers, Gather ye together first the tares, and bind them in bundles to burn them: but gather the wheat into my barn.
• Ps 37:12 : 12 The wicked plotteth against the just, and gnasheth upon him with his teeth.
• Ps 112:10 : 10 The wicked shall see it, and be grieved; he shall gnash with his teeth, and melt away: the desire of the wicked shall perish.
• Isa 52:1 : 1 Awake, awake; put on thy strength, O Zion; put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem, the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised and the unclean.
• Dan 3:20 : 20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.
• John 21:18 : 18 Verily, verily, I say unto thee, When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself, and walkedst whither thou wouldest: but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands, and another shall gird thee, and carry thee whither thou wouldest not.
• Acts 7:54 : 54 When they heard these things, they were cut to the heart, and they gnashed on him with their teeth.
• Acts 21:11 : 11 And when he was come unto us, he took Paul's girdle, and bound his own hands and feet, and said, Thus saith the Holy Ghost, So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle, and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles.
• 2 Thess 1:9 : 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• 2 Pet 2:4 : 4 For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell, and delivered them into chains of darkness, to be reserved unto judgment;
• 2 Pet 2:17 : 17 These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
• Jude 1:6 : 6 And the angels which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of the great day.
• Jude 1:13 : 13 Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.
• Rev 21:27 : 27 And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life.