John 17:12

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹While I was with them in the world, I kept them in thy name: those that thou gavest me I have kept, and none of them is lost, but the son of perdition; that the scripture might be fulfilled.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ὅτε ἤμην μετʼ αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ κόσμῳ, ἐγὼ ἐτήρουν αὐτοὺς ἐν τῷ ὀνόματί σου: οὓς δέδωκάς μοι ἐφύλαξα, καὶ οὐδεὶς ἐξ αὐτῶν ἀπώλετο, εἰ μὴ ὁ υἱὸς τῆς ἀπωλείας· ἵνα ἡ γραφὴ πληρωθῇ.

Transliteration

When ēmēn with them in the kosmō, egō etēroun them in the onomati of you: whom dedōkas to me ephylaxa, and oudeis from them apōleto, except the huios of the apōleias; that the graphē plērōthē.

Grammar Details

• *ēmēn*: imperfect, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I was
• *kosmō*: dative, masculine, singular - world
• *egō*: nominative, singular, personal pronoun - I
• *etēroun*: imperfect, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I was keeping
• *onomati*: dative, neuter, singular - name
• *dedōkas*: perfect, active, indicative, 2nd person singular - you have given
• *ephylaxa*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st person singular - I guarded/protected
• *oudeis*: nominative, masculine, singular - no one
• *apōleto*: aorist, middle, indicative, 3rd person singular - was lost/perished
• *huios*: nominative, masculine, singular - son
• *apōleias*: genitive, feminine, singular - destruction/perdition
• *graphē*: nominative, feminine, singular - scripture
• *plērōthē*: aorist, passive, subjunctive, 3rd person singular - might be fulfilled

Word Meanings

• *ēmēn*: was/existed/remained
• *kosmō*: world/universe/ordered system
• *egō*: I/myself
• *etēroun*: was keeping/guarding/protecting
• *onomati*: name/character/authority
• *dedōkas*: have given/entrusted/granted
• *ephylaxa*: guarded/protected/kept safe
• *oudeis*: no one/none/not one
• *apōleto*: was lost/perished/destroyed
• *huios tēs apōleias*: son of destruction/perdition/lostness
• *graphē*: scripture/writing
• *plērōthē*: might be fulfilled/completed/accomplished

Referenced Verses

• John 18:9 : 9 That the saying might be fulfilled, which he spake, Of them which thou gavest me have I lost none.
• John 13:18 : 18 ¶ ‹I speak not of you all: I know whom I have chosen: but that the scripture may be fulfilled, He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me.›
• John 6:37 : 37 ‹All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out.›
• John 6:39-40 : 39 ‹And this is the Father's will which hath sent me, that of all which he hath given me I should lose nothing, but should raise it up again at the last day.› 40 ‹And this is the will of him that sent me, that every one which seeth the Son, and believeth on him, may have everlasting life: and I will raise him up at the last day.›
• Ps 109:6-9 : 6 ¶ Set thou a wicked man over him: and let Satan stand at his right hand. 7 When he shall be judged, let him be condemned: and let his prayer become sin. 8 Let his days be few; [and] let another take his office. 9 Let his children be fatherless, and his wife a widow. 10 Let his children be continually vagabonds, and beg: let them seek [their bread] also out of their desolate places. 11 Let the extortioner catch all that he hath; and let the strangers spoil his labour. 12 Let there be none to extend mercy unto him: neither let there be any to favour his fatherless children. 13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out. 14 Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. 15 Let them be before the LORD continually, that he may cut off the memory of them from the earth. 16 Because that he remembered not to shew mercy, but persecuted the poor and needy man, that he might even slay the broken in heart. 17 As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him. 18 As he clothed himself with cursing like as with his garment, so let it come into his bowels like water, and like oil into his bones. 19 Let it be unto him as the garment [which] covereth him, and for a girdle wherewith he is girded continually.
• John 10:27-28 : 27 ‹My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me:› 28 ‹And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any› [man] ‹pluck them out of my hand.›
• Acts 1:16-20 : 16 Men [and] brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus. 17 For he was numbered with us, and had obtained part of this ministry. 18 Now this man purchased a field with the reward of iniquity; and falling headlong, he burst asunder in the midst, and all his bowels gushed out. 19 And it was known unto all the dwellers at Jerusalem; insomuch as that field is called in their proper tongue, Aceldama, that is to say, The field of blood. 20 For it is written in the book of Psalms, Let his habitation be desolate, and let no man dwell therein: and his bishoprick let another take.
• 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;
• 1 John 2:19 : 19 They went out from us, but they were not of us; for if they had been of us, they would [no doubt] have continued with us: but [they went out], that they might be made manifest that they were not all of us.
• Heb 2:13 : 13 And again, I will put my trust in him. And again, Behold I and the children which God hath given me.
• Acts 1:25 : 25 That he may take part of this ministry and apostleship, from which Judas by transgression fell, that he might go to his own place.
• Luke 4:26-27 : 26 ‹But unto none of them was Elias sent, save unto Sarepta,› [a city] ‹of Sidon, unto a woman› [that was] ‹a widow.› 27 ‹And many lepers were in Israel in the time of Eliseus the prophet; and none of them was cleansed, saving Naaman the Syrian.›
• John 6:70-71 : 70 Jesus answered them, ‹Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil?› 71 He spake of Judas Iscariot [the son] of Simon: for he it was that should betray him, being one of the twelve.