Luke 15:17

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Εἰς ἑαυτὸν δὲ ἐλθὼν, εἶπεν, Πόσοι μίσθιοι τοῦ πατρός μου περισσεύουσιν ἄρτων, ἐγὼ δὲ λιμῷ ἀπόλλυμαι!

Transliteration

To himself de elthōn, eipen, How-many misthioi of-the patros of-me perisseuousin of-artōn, I de with-limō apollymai!

Grammar Details

• *elthōn*: aorist active participle, masculine singular, nominative - having come
• *de*: postpositive particle - but/and/now
• *eipen*: aorist active indicative, 3rd person singular - he said
• *misthioi*: noun, masculine plural, nominative - hired servants
• *patros*: noun, masculine singular, genitive - of father
• μου: personal pronoun, genitive, 1st person singular - of me
• *perisseuousin*: present active indicative, 3rd person plural - they have abundance
• *artōn*: noun, masculine plural, genitive - of bread/loaves
• *limō*: noun, masculine singular, dative - with hunger/famine
• *apollymai*: present middle indicative, 1st person singular - I am perishing

Word Meanings

• *elthōn*: having come/come to/returned
• *misthioi*: hired servants/workers
• *patros*: father
• *perisseuousin*: have abundance/have plenty/have more than enough
• *artōn*: bread/loaves/food
• *limō*: hunger/famine/starvation
• *apollymai*: I am perishing/dying/being destroyed

Referenced Verses

• Ezek 18:28 : 28 Because he considereth, and turneth away from all his transgressions that he hath committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.
• Eph 5:14 : 14 Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.
• Acts 26:11-19 : 11 And I punished them oft in every synagogue, and compelled [them] to blaspheme; and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted [them] even unto strange cities. 12 ¶ Whereupon as I went to Damascus with authority and commission from the chief priests, 13 At midday, O king, I saw in the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them which journeyed with me. 14 And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, ‹Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me?› [it is] ‹hard for thee to kick against the pricks.› 15 And I said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, ‹I am Jesus whom thou persecutest.› 16 ‹But rise, and stand upon thy feet: for I have appeared unto thee for this purpose, to make thee a minister and a witness both of these things which thou hast seen, and of those things in the which I will appear unto thee;› 17 ‹Delivering thee from the people, and› [from] ‹the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,› 18 ‹To open their eyes,› [and] ‹to turn› [them] ‹from darkness to light, and› [from] ‹the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.› 19 Whereupon, O king Agrippa, I was not disobedient unto the heavenly vision:
• Eph 2:4-5 : 4 ¶ But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us, 5 Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)
• Luke 15:18-19 : 18 ‹I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,› 19 ‹And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.›
• Luke 16:23 : 23 ‹And in hell he lift up his eyes, being in torments, and seeth Abraham afar off, and Lazarus in his bosom.›
• Acts 2:37 : 37 ¶ Now when they heard [this], they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men [and] brethren, what shall we do?
• Acts 16:29-30 : 29 Then he called for a light, and sprang in, and came trembling, and fell down before Paul and Silas, 30 And brought them out, and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?
• Ps 73:20 : 20 As a dream when [one] awaketh; [so], O Lord, when thou awakest, thou shalt despise their image.
• Eccl 9:3 : 3 This [is] an evil among all [things] that are done under the sun, that [there is] one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness [is] in their heart while they live, and after that [they go] to the dead.
• Jer 31:19 : 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.
• Lam 1:7 : 7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, [and] did mock at her sabbaths.
• Luke 8:35 : 35 Then they went out to see what was done; and came to Jesus, and found the man, out of whom the devils were departed, sitting at the feet of Jesus, clothed, and in his right mind: and they were afraid.
• Titus 3:4-6 : 4 But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, 5 Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; 6 Which he shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour;
• Jas 1:16-18 : 16 Do not err, my beloved brethren. 17 Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, and cometh down from the Father of lights, with whom is no variableness, neither shadow of turning. 18 Of his own will begat he us with the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.