Matthew 25:5

King James Version 1611 (Original)

While the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Χρονίζοντος δὲ τοῦ νυμφίου, ἐνύσταξαν πᾶσαι καὶ ἐκάθευδον.

Transliteration

Chronizontos de the nymphiou, enystaxan pasai and ekatheudōn.

Grammar Details

• *chronizontos*: present active participle, genitive masculine singular - delaying
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and
• *nymphiou*: genitive masculine singular - of bridegroom
• *enystaxan*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person plural - nodded off/became drowsy
• *pasai*: nominative feminine plural - all
• *ekatheudōn*: imperfect active indicative, 3rd person plural - were sleeping

Word Meanings

• *chronizontos*: delaying/tarrying/being delayed
• *de*: but/and/now
• *nymphiou*: bridegroom/newly married man
• *enystaxan*: became drowsy/nodded off/began to sleep
• *pasai*: all/every one of them
• *ekatheudōn*: were sleeping/were asleep [continuous state]

Referenced Verses

• Matt 24:48 : 48 But and if that evil servant shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;
• Matt 25:19 : 19 After a long time the lord of those servants cometh, and reckoneth with them.
• Matt 26:40 : 40 And he cometh unto the disciples, and findeth them asleep, and saith unto Peter, What, could ye not watch with me one hour?
• Matt 26:43 : 43 And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.
• Mark 14:37-38 : 37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and saith unto Peter, Simon, sleepest thou? couldest not thou watch one hour? 38 Watch ye and pray, lest ye enter into temptation. The spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.
• Luke 12:45 : 45 But and if that servant say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming; and shall begin to beat the menservants and maidens, and to eat and drink, and to be drunken;
• Luke 18:8 : 8 I tell you that he will avenge them speedily. Nevertheless when the Son of man cometh, shall he find faith on the earth?
• Luke 20:9 : 9 Then began he to speak to the people this parable; A certain man planted a vineyard, and let it forth to husbandmen, and went into a far country for a long time.
• Rom 13:11 : 11 And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• 1 Thess 5:6-8 : 6 Therefore let us not sleep, as do others; but let us watch and be sober. 7 For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night. 8 But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.
• Heb 10:36-37 : 36 For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise. 37 For yet a little while, and he that shall come will come, and will not tarry.
• 1 Pet 5:8 : 8 Be sober, be vigilant; because your adversary the devil, as a roaring lion, walketh about, seeking whom he may devour:
• 2 Pet 3:4-9 : 4 And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation. 5 For this they willingly are ignorant of, that by the word of God the heavens were of old, and the earth standing out of the water and in the water: 6 Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished: 7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men. 8 But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. 9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
• Rev 2:25 : 25 But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.
• Song 3:1 : 1 By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.
• Song 5:2 : 2 I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.
• Jonah 1:5-6 : 5 Then the mariners were afraid, and cried every man unto his god, and cast forth the wares that were in the ship into the sea, to lighten it of them. But Jonah was gone down into the sides of the ship; and he lay, and was fast asleep. 6 So the shipmaster came to him, and said unto him, What meanest thou, O sleeper? arise, call upon thy God, if so be that God will think upon us, that we perish not.
• Hab 2:3 : 3 For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.