2 Thessalonians 2:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ τότε ἀποκαλυφθήσεται ὁ Ἄνομος, ὃν ὁ Κύριος ἀναλώσει τῷ πνεύματι τοῦ στόματος αὐτοῦ, καὶ καταργήσει τῇ ἐπιφανείᾳ τῆς παρουσίας αὐτοῦ:

Transliteration

And then apokalyphthēsetai the Anomos, whom the Kyrios analōsei by the pneumati of the stomatos of him, and katargēsei by the epiphaneia of the parousias of him:

Grammar Details

• *apokalyphthēsetai*: verb, future passive indicative, 3rd person singular - will be revealed
• *Anomos*: nominative, masculine singular - lawless one
• *Kyrios*: nominative, masculine singular - Lord
• *analōsei*: verb, future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will consume/destroy
• *pneumati*: dative, neuter singular - spirit/breath
• *stomatos*: genitive, neuter singular - mouth
• *katargēsei*: verb, future active indicative, 3rd person singular - will abolish/render powerless
• *epiphaneia*: dative, feminine singular - appearance/manifestation
• *parousias*: genitive, feminine singular - coming/presence

Word Meanings

• *apokalyphthēsetai*: will be revealed/unveiled/disclosed
• *Anomos*: lawless one/lawless person/one without law
• *analōsei*: will consume/destroy/slay/abolish
• *pneumati*: spirit/breath/wind
• *stomatos*: mouth/speech/utterance
• *katargēsei*: will abolish/render powerless/nullify/bring to an end
• *epiphaneia*: appearance/manifestation/brightness/splendor
• *parousias*: coming/presence/arrival/advent

Referenced Verses

• Isa 11:4 : 4 But with righteousness shall he judge the poor, and reprove with equity for the meek of the earth: and he shall smite the earth with the rod of his mouth, and with the breath of his lips shall he slay the wicked.
• 2 Thess 2:3 : 3 ¶ Let no man deceive you by any means: for [that day shall not come], except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed, the son of perdition;
• Rev 19:15 : 15 And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron: and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God.
• Dan 7:10-11 : 10 A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him: thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him: the judgment was set, and the books were opened. 11 I beheld then because of the voice of the great words which the horn spake: I beheld [even] till the beast was slain, and his body destroyed, and given to the burning flame.
• Rev 2:16 : 16 ‹Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.›
• Rev 18:8-9 : 8 Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong [is] the Lord God who judgeth her. 9 ¶ And the kings of the earth, who have committed fornication and lived deliciously with her, shall bewail her, and lament for her, when they shall see the smoke of her burning, 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
• Job 4:9 : 9 By the blast of God they perish, and by the breath of his nostrils are they consumed.
• Ps 18:15 : 15 Then the channels of waters were seen, and the foundations of the world were discovered at thy rebuke, O LORD, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils.
• Dan 7:26 : 26 But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy [it] unto the end.
• Hos 6:5 : 5 Therefore have I hewed [them] by the prophets; I have slain them by the words of my mouth: and thy judgments [are as] the light [that] goeth forth.
• Matt 13:19 : 19 ‹When any one heareth the word of the kingdom, and understandeth› [it] ‹not, then cometh the wicked› [one], ‹and catcheth away that which was sown in his heart. This is he which received seed by the way side.›
• Matt 13:38 : 38 ‹The field is the world; the good seed are the children of the kingdom; but the tares are the children of the wicked› [one];
• 2 Thess 1:8-9 : 8 In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ: 9 Who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of his power;
• 1 Tim 6:14 : 14 That thou keep [this] commandment without spot, unrebukeable, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:
• 2 Tim 1:10 : 10 But is now made manifest by the appearing of our Saviour Jesus Christ, who hath abolished death, and hath brought life and immortality to light through the gospel:
• 2 Tim 4:1 : 1 ¶ I charge [thee] therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;
• 2 Tim 4:8 : 8 Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, shall give me at that day: and not to me only, but unto all them also that love his appearing.
• Titus 2:13 : 13 Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ;
• Heb 10:27 : 27 But a certain fearful looking for of judgment and fiery indignation, which shall devour the adversaries.
• 1 John 2:13 : 13 I write unto you, fathers, because ye have known him [that is] from the beginning. I write unto you, young men, because ye have overcome the wicked one. I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.
• 1 John 3:12 : 12 Not as Cain, [who] was of that wicked one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his own works were evil, and his brother's righteous.
• 1 John 5:18 : 18 ¶ We know that whosoever is born of God sinneth not; but he that is begotten of God keepeth himself, and that wicked one toucheth him not.
• Rev 1:16 : 16 And he had in his right hand seven stars: and out of his mouth went a sharp twoedged sword: and his countenance [was] as the sun shineth in his strength.
• Rev 19:20-21 : 20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone. 21 And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which [sword] proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.
• Rev 20:10 : 10 And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet [are], and shall be tormented day and night for ever and ever.