Luke 21:25

Authorized King James Version (1611)

‹And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;›

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

¶Καὶ ἔσται σημεῖα ἐν ἡλίῳ, καὶ σελήνῃ, καὶ ἄστροις· καὶ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς συνοχὴ ἐθνῶν, ἐν ἀπορίᾳ· ἠχούσης· θαλάσσης καὶ σάλου

Transliteration

¶Kai there will be estai sēmeia in hēliō, kai selēnē, kai astrois· kai upon the gēs synochē of ethnōn, in aporia· ēchousēs· thalassēs kai salou

Grammar Details

• *Kai*: conjunction - and
• *estai*: future middle indicative, 3rd person singular - will be
• *sēmeia*: nominative neuter plural - signs
• *hēliō*: dative masculine singular - sun
• *selēnē*: dative feminine singular - moon
• *astrois*: dative neuter plural - stars
• *gēs*: genitive feminine singular - earth/land
• *synochē*: nominative feminine singular - distress/anguish
• *ethnōn*: genitive neuter plural - nations
• *aporia*: dative feminine singular - perplexity
• *ēchousēs*: present active participle, genitive feminine singular - roaring
• *thalassēs*: genitive feminine singular - sea
• *salou*: genitive masculine singular - surf/waves

Word Meanings

• *Kai*: and/also
• *estai*: will be/shall be
• *sēmeia*: signs/signals/miraculous signs
• *hēliō*: sun
• *selēnē*: moon
• *astrois*: stars/celestial bodies
• *gēs*: earth/land/ground
• *synochē*: distress/anguish/anxiety
• *ethnōn*: nations/peoples/gentiles
• *aporia*: perplexity/bewilderment/confusion
• *ēchousēs*: roaring/sounding/resounding
• *thalassēs*: sea/ocean
• *salou*: surf/waves/tossing

Referenced Verses

• Isa 13:10 : 10 For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.
• Isa 13:13-14 : 13 Therefore I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the LORD of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger. 14 And it shall be as the chased roe, and as a sheep that no man taketh up: they shall every man turn to his own people, and flee every one into his own land.
• Isa 24:23 : 23 Then the moon shall be confounded, and the sun ashamed, when the LORD of hosts shall reign in mount Zion, and in Jerusalem, and before his ancients gloriously.
• Isa 51:15 : 15 But I [am] the LORD thy God, that divided the sea, whose waves roared: The LORD of hosts [is] his name.
• 2 Pet 3:10-12 : 10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up. 11 ¶ [Seeing] then [that] all these things shall be dissolved, what manner [of persons] ought ye to be in [all] holy conversation and godliness, 12 Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?
• Rev 6:12-14 : 12 And I beheld when he had opened the sixth seal, and, lo, there was a great earthquake; and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood; 13 And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 14 And the heaven departed as a scroll when it is rolled together; and every mountain and island were moved out of their places.
• Ezek 32:7-8 : 7 And when I shall put thee out, I will cover the heaven, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give her light. 8 All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord GOD.
• Dan 12:1 : 1 ¶ And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation [even] to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
• Joel 2:30-31 : 30 And I will shew wonders in the heavens and in the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke. 31 The sun shall be turned into darkness, and the moon into blood, before the great and the terrible day of the LORD come.
• Amos 8:9-9 : 9 And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord GOD, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day: 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
• Mic 7:4 : 4 The best of them [is] as a brier: the most upright [is sharper] than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen [and] thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.
• Matt 24:29 : 29 ‹Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:›
• Matt 27:45 : 45 Now from the sixth hour there was darkness over all the land unto the ninth hour.
• Mark 13:24 : 24 ¶ ‹But in those days, after that tribulation, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light,›
• Mark 13:26 : 26 ‹And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.›
• Mark 15:33 : 33 ¶ And when the sixth hour was come, there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour.
• Acts 2:19 : 19 And I will shew wonders in heaven above, and signs in the earth beneath; blood, and fire, and vapour of smoke:
• Rev 20:11 : 11 ¶ And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.
• Jer 4:23 : 23 I beheld the earth, and, lo, [it was] without form, and void; and the heavens, and they [had] no light.
• Isa 22:4-5 : 4 Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people. 5 For [it is] a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord GOD of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.
• Ps 46:3 : 3 [Though] the waters thereof roar [and] be troubled, [though] the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
• Isa 5:30 : 30 And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if [one] look unto the land, behold darkness [and] sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.
• Ps 93:3-4 : 3 The floods have lifted up, O LORD, the floods have lifted up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. 4 The LORD on high [is] mightier than the noise of many waters, [yea, than] the mighty waves of the sea.