Luke 15:15

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Καὶ πορευθεὶς ἐκολλήθη ἑνὶ τῶν πολιτῶν τῆς χώρας ἐκείνης· καὶ ἔπεμψεν αὐτὸν εἰς τοὺς ἀγροὺς αὐτοῦ βόσκειν χοίρους.

Transliteration

And poreutheis ekollēthē to-one of-the politōn of-the chōras that; and epempsen him into the agrous of-him boskein choirous.

Grammar Details

• *poreutheis*: aorist passive participle, masculine singular, nominative - having gone
• *ekollēthē*: aorist passive indicative, 3rd person singular - he joined/attached himself
• *politōn*: noun, masculine plural, genitive - of citizens/residents
• *chōras*: noun, feminine singular, genitive - of country/region
• *epempsen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he sent
• *agrous*: noun, masculine plural, accusative - fields
• *boskein*: present active infinitive - to feed/tend
• *choirous*: noun, masculine plural, accusative - pigs/swine

Word Meanings

• *poreutheis*: having gone/traveled/journeyed
• *ekollēthē*: joined/attached himself/clung to
• *politōn*: citizens/residents/inhabitants
• *chōras*: country/region/land
• *epempsen*: sent/dispatched
• *agrous*: fields/farms/countryside
• *boskein*: to feed/tend/pasture
• *choirous*: pigs/swine/hogs

Referenced Verses

• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, [and] hating one another.
• Rev 2:21-22 : 21 ‹And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.› 22 ‹Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.›
• Exod 10:3 : 3 And Moses and Aaron came in unto Pharaoh, and said unto him, Thus saith the LORD God of the Hebrews, How long wilt thou refuse to humble thyself before me? let my people go, that they may serve me.
• 2 Chr 28:22 : 22 And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the LORD: this [is that] king Ahaz.
• Isa 1:5 : 5 Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
• Isa 1:9-9 : 9 Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, [and] we should have been like unto Gomorrah. 10 ¶ Hear the word of the LORD, ye rulers of Sodom; give ear unto the law of our God, ye people of Gomorrah. 11 To what purpose [is] the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats. 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts? 13 Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; [it is] iniquity, even the solemn meeting.
• Isa 57:17 : 17 ¶ For the iniquity of his covetousness was I wroth, and smote him: I hid me, and was wroth, and he went on frowardly in the way of his heart.
• Jer 5:3 : 3 O LORD, [are] not thine eyes upon the truth? thou hast stricken them, but they have not grieved; thou hast consumed them, [but] they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.
• Jer 8:4-6 : 4 ¶ Moreover thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD; Shall they fall, and not arise? shall he turn away, and not return? 5 Why [then] is this people of Jerusalem slidden back by a perpetual backsliding? they hold fast deceit, they refuse to return. 6 I hearkened and heard, [but] they spake not aright: no man repented him of his wickedness, saying, What have I done? every one turned to his course, as the horse rusheth into the battle.
• Jer 31:18-19 : 18 ¶ I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself [thus]; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed [to the yoke]: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou [art] the LORD my God. 19 Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was instructed, I smote upon [my] thigh: I was ashamed, yea, even confounded, because I did bear the reproach of my youth.
• Ezek 16:52 : 52 Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.
• Ezek 16:63 : 63 That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord GOD.
• Nah 3:6 : 6 And I will cast abominable filth upon thee, and make thee vile, and will set thee as a gazingstock.
• Mal 2:9 : 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.
• Luke 8:32-34 : 32 And there was there an herd of many swine feeding on the mountain: and they besought him that he would suffer them to enter into them. And he suffered them. 33 Then went the devils out of the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd ran violently down a steep place into the lake, and were choked. 34 When they that fed [them] saw what was done, they fled, and went and told [it] in the city and in the country.
• Luke 15:13 : 13 ‹And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.›
• Rom 1:24-26 : 24 Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: 25 Who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen. 26 For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature:
• Rom 6:22 : 22 But now being made free from sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto holiness, and the end everlasting life.
• 1 Cor 6:9-9 : 9 ¶ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, 10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.
• Eph 2:2-3 : 2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience: 3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
• Eph 4:17-19 : 17 ¶ This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that ye henceforth walk not as other Gentiles walk, in the vanity of their mind, 18 Having the understanding darkened, being alienated from the life of God through the ignorance that is in them, because of the blindness of their heart: 19 Who being past feeling have given themselves over unto lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness.
• Eph 5:11-12 : 11 And have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove [them]. 12 For it is a shame even to speak of those things which are done of them in secret.
• Col 3:5-7 : 5 ¶ Mortify therefore your members which are upon the earth; fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil concupiscence, and covetousness, which is idolatry: 6 For which things' sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience: 7 In the which ye also walked some time, when ye lived in them.
• 2 Tim 2:25-26 : 25 In meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God peradventure will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; 26 And [that] they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil, who are taken captive by him at his will.