Luke 13:34

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen› [doth gather] ‹her brood under› [her] ‹wings, and ye would not!›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἰερουσαλήμ, Ἰερουσαλήμ, ἡ ἀποκτείνουσα τοὺς προφήτας, καὶ λιθοβολοῦσα τοὺς ἀπεσταλμένους πρὸς αὐτήν· ποσάκις ἠθέλησα ἐπισυνάξαι τὰ τέκνα σου, ὃν τρόπον ὄρνις τὴν ἑαυτῆς νοσσιὰν ὑπὸ τὰς πτέρυγας, καὶ οὐκ ἠθελήσατε!

Transliteration

Ierousalēm, Ierousalēm, the one apokteinousa the prophētas, and lithobolousa the ones apestalmenous pros her; posakis ēthelēsa episynaxai the tekna of you, which tropon ornis the of herself nossian hypo the pterygas, and not you ēthelēsate!

Grammar Details

• *Ierousalēm*: vocative, feminine - Jerusalem
• *apokteinousa*: present participle, active, nominative, feminine, singular - killing
• *prophētas*: accusative, masculine, plural - prophets
• *lithobolousa*: present participle, active, nominative, feminine, singular - stoning
• *apestalmenous*: perfect participle, passive, accusative, masculine, plural - having been sent
• *pros*: preposition + accusative - to/toward
• *posakis*: adverb - how often/how many times
• *ēthelēsa*: aorist, active, indicative, 1st singular - I wanted/wished
• *episynaxai*: aorist infinitive, active - to gather together
• *tekna*: accusative, neuter, plural - children
• *tropon*: accusative, masculine, singular - manner/way
• *ornis*: nominative, feminine, singular - bird/hen
• *nossian*: accusative, feminine, singular - brood/young
• *hypo*: preposition + accusative - under
• *pterygas*: accusative, feminine, plural - wings
• *ēthelēsate*: aorist, active, indicative, 2nd plural - you wanted/wished

Word Meanings

• *apokteinousa*: killing/putting to death
• *lithobolousa*: stoning/throwing stones at
• *apestalmenous*: having been sent/dispatched/commissioned
• *posakis*: how often/how many times
• *ēthelēsa*: I wanted/wished/desired
• *episynaxai*: to gather together/collect/assemble
• *tekna*: children/offspring/descendants
• *tropon*: manner/way/fashion
• *ornis*: bird/hen
• *nossian*: brood/young birds/chicks
• *pterygas*: wings
• *ēthelēsate*: you wanted/wished/were willing

Referenced Verses

• Deut 32:11-12 : 11 As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings: 12 [So] the LORD alone did lead him, and [there was] no strange god with him.
• Matt 23:37-39 : 37 ‹O Jerusalem, Jerusalem,› [thou] ‹that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under› [her] ‹wings, and ye would not!› 38 ‹Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.› 39 ‹For I say unto you, Ye shall not see me henceforth, till ye shall say, Blessed› [is] ‹he that cometh in the name of the Lord.›
• Acts 7:52 : 52 Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:
• Luke 19:41-42 : 41 ¶ And when he was come near, he beheld the city, and wept over it, 42 Saying, ‹If thou hadst known, even thou, at least in this thy day, the things› [which belong] ‹unto thy peace! but now they are hid from thine eyes.›
• Luke 19:44 : 44 ‹And shall lay thee even with the ground, and thy children within thee; and they shall not leave in thee one stone upon another; because thou knewest not the time of thy visitation.›
• Luke 23:28 : 28 But Jesus turning unto them said, ‹Daughters of Jerusalem, weep not for me, but weep for yourselves, and for your children.›
• Isa 30:15 : 15 For thus saith the Lord GOD, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.
• Ruth 2:12 : 12 The LORD recompense thy work, and a full reward be given thee of the LORD God of Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust.
• Jer 7:23-24 : 23 But this thing commanded I them, saying, Obey my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people: and walk ye in all the ways that I have commanded you, that it may be well unto you. 24 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear, but walked in the counsels [and] in the imagination of their evil heart, and went backward, and not forward.
• Jer 26:23 : 23 And they fetched forth Urijah out of Egypt, and brought him unto Jehoiakim the king; who slew him with the sword, and cast his dead body into the graves of the common people.
• Jer 35:14 : 14 The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father's commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.
• Jer 44:4-6 : 4 Howbeit I sent unto you all my servants the prophets, rising early and sending [them], saying, Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate. 5 But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods. 6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted [and] desolate, as at this day.
• Lam 1:16 : 16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
• Lam 4:13 : 13 ¶ For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
• Hos 11:2 : 2 [As] they called them, so they went from them: they sacrificed unto Baalim, and burned incense to graven images.
• Hos 11:7 : 7 And my people are bent to backsliding from me: though they called them to the most High, none at all would exalt [him].
• Joel 2:23 : 23 Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in the LORD your God: for he hath given you the former rain moderately, and he will cause to come down for you the rain, the former rain, and the latter rain in the first [month].
• Zech 1:4 : 4 Be ye not as your fathers, unto whom the former prophets have cried, saying, Thus saith the LORD of hosts; Turn ye now from your evil ways, and [from] your evil doings: but they did not hear, nor hearken unto me, saith the LORD.
• Matt 21:35-36 : 35 ‹And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.› 36 ‹Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.›
• Matt 22:3 : 3 ‹And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.›
• Matt 22:6 : 6 ‹And the remnant took his servants, and entreated› [them] ‹spitefully, and slew› [them].
• 2 Chr 24:21-22 : 21 And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the LORD. 22 Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, The LORD look upon [it], and require [it].
• 2 Chr 36:15-16 : 15 And the LORD God of their fathers sent to them by his messengers, rising up betimes, and sending; because he had compassion on his people, and on his dwelling place: 16 But they mocked the messengers of God, and despised his words, and misused his prophets, until the wrath of the LORD arose against his people, till [there was] no remedy.
• Neh 9:26 : 26 Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.
• Neh 9:30 : 30 Yet many years didst thou forbear them, and testifiedst against them by thy spirit in thy prophets: yet would they not give ear: therefore gavest thou them into the hand of the people of the lands.
• Ps 17:8 : 8 ¶ Keep me as the apple of the eye, hide me under the shadow of thy wings,
• Ps 36:7 : 7 How excellent [is] thy lovingkindness, O God! therefore the children of men put their trust under the shadow of thy wings.
• Ps 57:1 : 1 ¶ To the chief Musician, Altaschith, Michtam of David, when he fled from Saul in the cave. Be merciful unto me, O God, be merciful unto me: for my soul trusteth in thee: yea, in the shadow of thy wings will I make my refuge, until [these] calamities be overpast.
• Ps 81:10-11 : 10 I [am] the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.
• Ps 81:13 : 13 Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, [and] Israel had walked in my ways!
• Ps 91:4 : 4 He shall cover thee with his feathers, and under his wings shalt thou trust: his truth [shall be thy] shield and buckler.
• Ps 149:2 : 2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
• Prov 1:24-30 : 24 Because I have called, and ye refused; I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded; 25 But ye have set at nought all my counsel, and would none of my reproof: 26 I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh; 27 When your fear cometh as desolation, and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind; when distress and anguish cometh upon you. 28 Then shall they call upon me, but I will not answer; they shall seek me early, but they shall not find me: 29 For that they hated knowledge, and did not choose the fear of the LORD: 30 They would none of my counsel: they despised all my reproof.
• Isa 48:17-19 : 17 Thus saith the LORD, thy Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel; I [am] the LORD thy God which teacheth thee to profit, which leadeth thee by the way [that] thou shouldest go. 18 O that thou hadst hearkened to my commandments! then had thy peace been as a river, and thy righteousness as the waves of the sea: 19 Thy seed also had been as the sand, and the offspring of thy bowels like the gravel thereof; his name should not have been cut off nor destroyed from before me.
• Isa 50:2 : 2 Wherefore, when I came, [was there] no man? when I called, [was there] none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because [there is] no water, and dieth for thirst.
• Jer 2:30 : 30 In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.
• Jer 6:16 : 16 Thus saith the LORD, Stand ye in the ways, and see, and ask for the old paths, where [is] the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].
• Luke 15:28 : 28 ‹And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.›
• Deut 32:29 : 29 O that they were wise, [that] they understood this, [that] they would consider their latter end!
• Acts 3:14-15 : 14 But ye denied the Holy One and the Just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you; 15 And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.
• Acts 7:59 : 59 And they stoned Stephen, calling upon [God], and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.
• Acts 8:1 : 1 ¶ And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judaea and Samaria, except the apostles.
• Gal 4:25-26 : 25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children. 26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
• Rev 11:8 : 8 And their dead bodies [shall lie] in the street of the great city, which spiritually is called Sodom and Egypt, where also our Lord was crucified.
• Deut 5:29 : 29 O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!